Monthly Archives: February 2025
Hezbollah will continue supporting the Palestinian people and will not let US President Donald Trump implement his project for the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem said at the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. ‘We will not let the United States boss us about in the Middle East...
ON SUNDAY, Israeli military forces deployed tanks into the northern West Bank refuge camp at Jenin, a move denounced by the Hamas resistance movement as revealing the occupying regime’s dangerous intentions to persist with its genocidal war against the Palestinian people. It marks the first time that tanks have been sent...
IN AN INTERVIEW with Al Jazeera yesterday, Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said the Palestinian group will not engage in further ceasefire discussions until Israel releases the 620 Palestinians who were supposed to be released on Saturday. Here are some of his comments: Hamas has fulfilled all...
LABOUR Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer beat the war drums at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Glasgow yesterday. He said that ‘we can’t cling to the comfort of the past’ and pledged to massively increase defence spending , saying it’s time for Britain to ‘take responsibility’ for the security...
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) said on Thursday that they welcome the government’s decision to postpone Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana 2025 Budget speech to March. Fedusa said that this unprecedented move reflects the complexities inherent in a coalition...
SPEAKING at a poorly attended Scottish Labour Party conference yesterday Sir Keir Starmer said the United States ‘is right’ about the UK and Europe needing to take more responsibility for defence and security. Starmer added that he is clear Britain ‘will take a leading responsibility’ in protecting the continent, claiming:...
ELON Musk’s chainsaw wielding stunt with Argentine President Javier Milei before a conservative convention in the US on Thursday was a call to war against US social programmes and whole government departments to ‘cut bureaucracy’, as Milei had done in Argentina. Multi-billionaire Musk’s Department of Government efficiency is firing hundreds...
UNI Global Union said on Thursday that its US affiliates in the postal sector are fighting back after President Trump recently reiterated his desire to privatise the US Postal Service (USPS), which celebrates its 250th anniversary this year. Mark Dimondstein, President of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), said: ‘Make...
A PALESTINIAN woman was killed yesterday when Israeli forces opened live fire in the Al-Jenena neighbourhood, east of Rafah in southern Gaza, according to local sources. The victim, identified as Hanaa al-Ghouti, was fatally shot amid sporadic attacks that persist despite a ceasefire introduced on 19 January 2025. Israel’s conflict in...
Israeli occupation forces and colonists have escalated their attacks across the occupied West Bank, injuring Palestinian civilians, destroying agricultural land, and intensifying efforts to displace Palestinian communities through raids, demolitions, and land seizures. In Nablus, Israeli forces stormed the town of Tal on Wednesday evening, opening fire with live ammunition,...
COSATU President Zingiswa Losi addressed Day One of the South African trade union movement Conference in Cape Town on Tuesday: ‘Comrades! Brothers and Sisters! Workers of the World! ‘I stand before you today, not just as the President of COSATU, but as a fellow worker – a comrade in the...
SINCE January, Israel has launched massive attacks on refugee camps in the West Bank killing dozens of Palestinians and forcing at least 40,000 to flee their homes, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) reported yesterday. The Zionist regime started its military campaign on January 21,...
A group of 62 MPs and peers across parties have written to trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds to demand the government takes measures to ban the import of all goods into the UK made in whole or in part in Israel’s illegal settlements. In an open letter, the parliamentarians say that...
THE UK’s Oxfam said yesterday that Israel has already destroyed more than 80% of the water and sewerage networks in the Gaza Strip, leading to catastrophic health conditions. Klemens Laguarda, the humanitarian coordinator for Oxfam in the Gaza Strip, said in a statement on Tuesday: ‘Now that the bombs have...
Birmingham bin strikers fighting race to the bottom Striking Birmingham bin workers have rejected a one off non-consolidated cash offer from Birmingham council but only if they accept a brutal permanent pay cut. More than 350 refuse workers began strike action in January over the scrapping of the safety critical Waste Recycling and Collection Officer (WRCO)...
On Monday, the Telegraph newspaper revealed details of a draft contract which US president Donald Trump is preparing to impose on the Ukrainian regime. This contract, dated February 7th 2025 and marked ‘Privileged & Confidential’, sets out Trump’s plan for the US to take complete control of the Ukrainian economy...
OXFAM has reported an outbreak of waterborne and infectious diseases in the Gaza Strip amid the lack of safe water and untreated sewage overflowing in the streets following the Israeli military’s genocidal war on the besieged coastal territory. Also, the World Health Organisation reports that 88 per cent of environmental...
IN ADVANCE of yesterday’s panic meeting of EU and UK leaders in Paris, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer announced that he is prepared to put British troops on the ground in the Ukraine if the US and Russia agree to a peace deal. Writing in the Telegraph on Sunday, Starmer...
Israeli forces stormed the Old City of Nablus on Sunday amid intensified raids throughout the West Bank, seizing and arresting many citizens. They raided homes, positioned snipers on rooftops, and sparked clashes with residents.
Seven Palestinians were injured in the Israeli raids on Nablus, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported, two...
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday that he is ‘ready and willing’ to put UK ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine, just as US President Donald Trump prepared to withdraw support for Ukraine’s war on Russia. Starmer attended a meeting of European leaders in Paris to discuss concerns over...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a joint press conference in Israel yesterday, in which they threatened war on Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and all the resistance movements in the region, and then on the UN and other international institutions. Netanyahu spoke first, saying:...
‘FROM the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!’ rang out as 200,000 workers, students and youth marched from Whitehall in central London to the American Embassy in Battersea on Saturday. Workers on the march were demanding trade union action to stop the genocide in Gaza and the establishment...
EUROPEAN leaders are set to meet today for an emergency summit on the war in Ukraine. They are frightened that Russia and the USA will make a deal that will leave the EU out in the cold with nothing to show for its huge expenditure of blood and gold...
PRIME Minister Keir Starmer’s attempt to ride two horses at the same time, by forming trading relations or ‘partnerships’ with both the EU and the US, is courting a catastrophic economic disaster for the already bankrupt UK. US President Trump’s threatened 25 per cent reciprocal VAT tariffs on all US...
In a statement released on Wednesday the National Education Association (NEA) Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) the two largest teaching unions in the United States have said they will fight against the attacks on education being carried out by US President Donald Trump. The two unions are...
DURING the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 14 martyrs, who had been reported missing during the war, Hamas reported yesterday. Three wounded citizens also succumbed to injuries they sustained during the war, while two others were injured by Israeli gunfire, according to Gaza’s...
THE HAMAS Movement has called on people worldwide to go out ‘in mass demonstrations in all cities of the world and let the coming Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays be a global movement’ against the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. ‘We call on the masses of our people, our Arab and Islamic...
AS the world crisis of capitalism develops at breakneck speed, so the splits between the imperialist nations become more open, pitching the US against its former allies in the UK and Europe. The rupture between the competing interests of the US and European capitalist nations was exposed this week over...
A RENOWNED American attorney and indigenous rights campaigner estimates that the Israeli military has killed at least 360,000 people in its 15-month-long genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, arguing that the besieged territory’s true death toll is significantly higher than the figure reported by mainstream media. Steven Donziger, who spent...
THE Palestinian National and Islamic Forces in Gaza have released a defiant message in response to Donald Trump’s and Israel’s forced displacement plans: ‘ The displacement plans from the Gaza Strip will not stop at displacing the Palestinians of the West Bank.
We affirm that our people, who have made...
CARE staff who come to the UK from overseas are having to share beds with other workers, sleep rough, and pay huge fees to work because of exploitation by unscrupulous employers, according to a report released by he union Unison on Tuesday, 11 February. Some migrant care workers have paid...
THE Hamas Movement has reiterated its rejection of US president Donald Trump’s renewed remarks about his intent to relocate the citizens of Gaza to other countries, describing them as ‘racist’ and a ‘call for ethnic cleansing’. In a statement on Tuesday, Hamas accused Trump of planning to liquidate the Palestinian...
HAMAS was defiant in its response yesterday to the threats by US president Donald Trump that he would cancel the ceasefire agreement in Gaza and ‘let hell break out’ if all Israeli captives held by the resistance force are not released by midday Saturday. Speaking on Monday, Trump stated: ‘As...
US President Donald Trump’s scheme for the Gaza Strip is ‘doomed’ to failure, says the head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas. ‘We will bring them down as we brought down the projects before them,’ Khalil al-Hayya said on Monday.
Al-Hayya, who is also deputy head of the Hamas Political Bureau,...
HAMAS yesterday denounced US President Trump’s call for the Gaza ceasefire to be cancelled, warning that the only way for the Israeli captives to be returned is to respect the deal. ‘Trump should know that in order for the ceasefire in Gaza to last, both sides must comply with their obligations....
ON SUNDAY Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the Netzarim Corridor, the military zone they controlled that cut the north of the Gaza Strip from the south. At the start of the Zionist genocidal attack on Gaza, the Israeli military issued mass evacuation orders before launching a ground invasion of the...
A Palestinian abductee who was among prisoners released on Saturday by Israel as part of the ceasefire deal has recounted the tragic ordeal and brutal torture that he has been through in the occupying regime’s detention. Ibrahim Mohammad Khaleel al-Shawish said in his testimony that for 45 days he was...
WITH support from Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, the United Nations Development Programme and the Arab International Organisation for Reconstruction in Palestine yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work in Gaza. The agreement was signed at the prime minister’s office in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank,...
ONE thousand tractors spread all the way up Whitehall and beyond in a show of strength by tens of thousands of angry farmers yesterday, determined to force the Labour government to Halt the Family Farming Tax. The event, organised by Save British Farming, is the third time farmers have rallied...
‘THE Israeli occupation has completely destroyed the Jenin refugee camp and forcibly displaced over 20,000 Palestinian residents, leaving behind their homes, personal documents and belongings,’ Mansour Al-Saadi, the Deputy Governor of Jenin reported yesterday. Al-Saadi described the destruction as part of a broader conspiracy aimed at erasing the refugee issue...
LAST week, the Bank of England issued a ‘gloomy’ outlook for the UK economy with its growth forecast cut in half from that made just three months ago and the revelation that the economy contracted by 0.1% in the final quarter of 2024. If this was considered to be ‘gloomy’,...
The AFL-CIO and several of its affiliated government employee unions, last Wednesday, launched a legal action over fears that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is on the cusp of unlawfully gaining access to data about millions of federal workers. The DOGE has instituted sweeping changes to the executive branch...
‘HALT the Family Farm Tax,’ demand thousands of farmworkers as they roll into Whitehall, many aboard their tractors, at 1pm this afternoon. Small farmers across the country are furious that Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced that they will be liable to pay Inheritance Tax (IHT), warning that they will...
DITCHING his opposition to a new third runway at Heathrow airport on Thursday, Ed Miliband, the UK Energy Secretary, not only cravenly abandoned his opposition to the project, he undermined yet another of the crisis Labour government’s pledges on carbon emission climate targets. Just nine days after Chancellor Rachel Reeves...