Monthly Archives: July 2026

POLICE arrested demonstrators outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday, where hundreds gathered in defiance of the proscription of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000. The...

US PRESIDENT Trump has pledged to give Iran a beating after it fired ballistic missiles at American bases in Jordan. The US and Saudi Arabia...

THE Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said on Wednesday that Israeli prisons have undergone a continuing structural transformation since the start of the Israeli war...

THE Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have staged a retaliatory ballistic missile strike against an American airbase in Jordan, besides halting three trespassing vessels...

THERE was a lively picket, at the Maudsley hospital in Camberwell, south east London yesterday of over 50 estate maintainance workers. They were joined, by...

EARLY Wednesday the US and Saudi Arabia announced they had carried out coordinated aerial attacks against bases in Iraq belonging to the Popular Mobilisation...

THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and its affiliate, the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU), said on Monday that...

Shares in high tech stocks took a severe hit this week when China announced that the state-owned company, Shanghai Yuliangsheng, was about to begin...

‘Israel seeking to use Ukraine to drag Europe into war’ Head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Ebrahim Azizi, has warned...

IRAN'S Consul General in Russia Ahmad Heydarian has announced legal action against Ukraine over its drone attack on the Iranian vessel ‘Anna’ in the...

ISRAELI soldiers intensified their offensive in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem yesterday, raiding at least 20 towns and villages as well as...

Newly-installed Labour prime minister Andy Burnham told the BBC that ‘the NHS will collapse’ if social care is not reformed before adding that he...

INDIA'S Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan was forced to resign last Saturday after weeks of protests demanding he be sacked over exam paper leaks and...

STRIKERS at the Institute of Cancer Research in Chelsea West London yesterday were joined by bus drivers from Westbourne Park bus garage, who are...

IRANIAN President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for pursuing legal action through competent international organisations over damage to Iran’s transport infrastructure, describing US attacks on...

PRESIDENT TRUMP on Saturday stated that he is close to deciding whether to launch ‘a massive attack’ against Iran. Speaking to the Axios news site,...

ISRAELI warplanes bombed the home of the Al-Masri family in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City at around 2am last Tuesday, killing Firas and...

DONALD Trump has imposed fresh tariffs on more than 80 countries, replacing a blanket 10 per cent duty hours before it lapsed. The new levies...

MORE than 200 Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) workers rallied outside South Kensington Tube station yesterday. Unite members across scientific research, laboratory support and site...

NEW US trade war tariffs announced yesterday imposed a 10 per cent tariff on 60 trading partners in the latest escalation of the trade...

MORE than 100 students were injured on 20 July when Delhi police broke up a march on India’s parliament. The march was called by the...

THE United States bombed Iran for a twelfth consecutive night early yesterday, and Iranian forces struck back across the Gulf, hitting American installations in...

PRESIDENT TRUMP now faces a major crisis with his war on Iran which he is rapidly losing. In the middle of talks with the Iranian...

BY FATEMEH SAHRANESHIN IN BANDAR ABBAS FOR an Iranian family, social welfare is rarely defined by a single payment or a single government programme. It may...

TWO-THIRDS of low income families struggle to buy essentials such as clothes, heating and food, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) warned yesterday. The anti-poverty charity...

ATTACKS on civilian infrastructure and schools during the US military campaign against Iran constitute clear war crimes under the Geneva Conventions, an international law...

ROLLS-ROYCE has issued an ultimatum to the just formed Burnham Labour government that it must back a £3bn plan for new short-haul jet engines...

On Monday morning, Keir Starmer left 10 Downing Street to make way for his appointed successor as Labour Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, who immediately...

Deir Jarir town, near Ramallah, was brutally attacked again at dawn on Monday by settlers under the protection of the Israeli occupation force (IOF)...

PRESIDENT Masoud Pezeshkian says Iran is now involved in a ‘full-scale war’ with the United States, with the economy and public livelihood being the...

US PRESIDENT Trump has embarked on a massive escalation of the war on Iran when he announced on July 11 that the ceasefire is...

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei says for an administration that once portrayed itself as the standard-bearer for the global order, liberalism and the...

THE Iranian Army warned yesterday that any equipment or vessels destined for use against the Islamic Republic will not be permitted to transit the...

LABOUR leader Burnham said yesterday that he had still not decided who will be in his Cabinet, ahead of him taking over from Sir...

At the rally at Downing Street the first speaker was Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, who said: ‘Friends of justice, friends...

OVER 50,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday afternoon demanding ‘Free, Free Palestine!’ With the Israeli...

THE lives of 16 Gaza doctors, detained by Israel, are at risk. Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital remains held in isolation...

JUST days before Andy Burnham is installed as PM on Monday, amid much speculation and lobbying about the future policies and the personnel of...

ANNA Liedtke, a 25-year-old German activist who sailed on a Gaza-bound flotilla, has filed a criminal complaint in Israel alleging she was raped by...

The Red Ribbons Campaign for the Release of Palestinian Hostages and Prisoners held in Israeli prisons has renewed its urgent call on the International...

BRITAIN'S biggest water firm, Thames Water, has just awarded its chief executive Chris Weston a pay rise that has pushed his salary to £1.16...

BRITISH Steel has formally been taken into public ownership, fifteen months after the government intervened to prevent the closure of its Scunthorpe steelworks and...

IRAN threatened to block further trading routes in the Strait of Hormuz region yesterday as the US launched a fresh wave of strikes on...

AN increasingly desperate US president Donald Trump authorised a wave of strikes against civilian infrastructure in southwestern Iran on Wednesday. These latest attacks followed overnight...

International Field Hospitals have bolstered medical care in Venezuela in the wake of the June 24 earthquakes. Medical teams from several countries are operating field...