Monthly Archives: August 2026

At the weekend, Labour’s new prime minister Andy Burnham announced he would be undertaking a ‘national tour’ of the country to improve the government’s...

LONDON Collective for Palestine are demonstrating outside the BBC this morning, Tuesday 11th August, from 8am, at Portland Place, London W1A 1AA, to hold...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has condemned the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, saying the mindset behind such attacks remains present in Washington...

Yesterday, the Telegraph newspaper confirmed a massive milestone in the collapse of British capitalism into bankruptcy when it pointed to the latest official figures...

ISRAELI prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel has rejected US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace 15-point plan and will not withdraw...

MORE than 200 workers from the Institute of Cancer Research rallied outside South Kensington tube station yesterday, joined by delegations from UCU, Unison and...

THE ‘Board of Peace’ has issued its first construction contract in Gaza, for a 150-person military outpost to house Moroccan troops. The contract, not yet...

THE Supreme Court will decide the fate of the ban on Palestine Action on 4 and 5 November, after a year in which roughly...

THE amount withdrawn from equity funds last month was £1.6bn as the bosses panicked that PM Burnham will be forced to put up taxes....

IRAN and Oman have agreed the geographic coordinates of a commercial shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz. They are reported to be in the...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistani paramilitary forces have killed at least 89 civilians in Pakistan-administered Kashmir since June, according to death records and first-hand accounts compiled...

THE UK’s National Debt has risen to more than £3 trillion after the UK government was forced to borrow much more than it had...

THE United States Army has exhausted most of its worldwide stock of highly accurate long-range missiles during five months of war against Iran, leaving...

MOHSEN Rezaei, advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, has said the United States was defeated midway in what he called US President...

THE mass burial of 112 Palestinians, whose bodies were recovered from the rubble of an apartment bloc in Gaza nearly three years after an...

THE Independent Office for Police Conduct announced yesterday that it has dropped gross misconduct proceedings against Martyn Blake, the Metropolitan Police firearms officer who...

AFTER nearly three years beneath the rubble, the bodies of 112 Palestinians from the Abu Sharia and Al-Hasayna families, killed in an Israeli airstrike...

Teachers in Argentina launched a nationwide 24-hour strike on Monday after unions accused President Javier Milei’s government of refusing to resume salary negotiations and...

US president Donald Trump went incandescent with rage on Monday when his latest declaration that Iran was begging for peace talks and that new...

The BMA ARM (British Medical Association Annual Representative Meeting), which took place in Brighton this summer, passed a number of very important motions, including...

THE BRUTAL Israeli war on the Gaza Strip is not limited to destroying buildings and facilities, but extends to the health system, at a...

Last Friday, Reuters news agency published a photograph of a hastily scribbled reminder on the notepad of US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent of a...

IRANIAN Foreign Minister Esmaeil Baghaei says talks with Oman on ensuring safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz are ‘purely bilateral, between the two...

LABOUR PM Burnham and his former Defence Secretary Chancellor John Healey have written a joint letter to Cabinet ministers telling them that their job...

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) in a statement released last Friday said it ‘condemns in the strongest possible terms the callous,...

THE Commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Major General Ali Abdollahi, has warned regional countries against aligning with the United States, saying any...

GAZA’S Eye Hospital warned yesterday that it is now unable to provide full services amid ongoing war and shortages. Dr Hussam Dawoud, director of Gaza’s...

HAMAS will not take steps towards placing its weapons under centralised control or storing them until Israeli forces have withdrawn from the Gaza Strip,...

MAINTENANCE and estate workers striking at four south London mental health hospitals were joined on the picket line yesterday by bus workers, who arrived...

ISRAELI occupation forces seized four Palestinian homes in the town of Till, southwest of Nablus, on Thursday and converted them into military outposts, as...

JUST two weeks after the installation of ex-Manchester mayor Andy Burnham as PM, to save collapsing British capitalism from drowning in debt, Labour is...