Tag: britain

YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revised down its estimates of the UK’s economic growth as measured by the country’s Gross Domestic Product...

THE BANK OF ENGLAND has issued a warning that not only will the bankrupted UK economy not grow in the wake of the Rachel...

THE Bank of England yesterday held UK interest rates at 4.75% until at least next February. This follows two cuts to the interest rates this...

THE NUJ (National Union of Journalists) has welcomed the judgement of the Investigatory  Powers Tribunal published Monday morning, December 17. The tribunal judges have ruled...

FOOD, clothing, footwear, fuel, non-alcoholic drinks, alcohol, tobacco, and gig & play tickets all rose at a faster pace last month, leading to another...

Agnes Callamard, secretary-general of Amnesty International, has said that ‘for over a year, Israel has convinced its allies, and much of the world, that...

THE DECISION by the Israeli regime on Sunday to close its embassy in Dublin brought a swift response from Ireland’s taoiseach (prime minister) Simon...

ANALYSIS by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has found that over 32,000 student nurses in England could drop out of their courses by...

A PARLIAMENTARY session in Westminster has called on the British government to urgently issue medical visas for injured children from Gaza, enabling them to...

SHOCK economic data on Thursday revealed a crash of 0.1 per cent in the UK’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for two consecutive months, with...

THE Bank for International Settlements (BIS) this week issued a warning that governments across the world are at risk of imploding unless they deal...

THE head of Hamas’ foreign political bureau Khaled Mishaal, said yesterday that the victory of the Syrian people heralds the victory for the Islamic...

HUNDREDS of farmers descended on Parliament on their tractors yesterday, demanding ‘Save Family Farming!’ Having driven to the capital from as far afield as Exmoor,...

THE TORIES have damned the Starmer government for a foreign policy ‘shambles’ as political parties throughout the western imperialist nations grapple with coming to...

LEADING bourgeois economists are making doom laden predictions about the effect of Donald Trump’s pledges to ‘make America great’ through trade wars and expelling...

THE LABOUR government’s so-called refreshed NHS Workforce Plan, which essentially is to keep patients out of hospital and treat them in the community instead,...

LARGE NUMBERS of workers and youth have occupied the Damascus residence of the just-deposed President Assad, with Damascus placed under a curfew. After the collapse,...

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad left office in Syria yesterday after giving orders for a peaceful transfer of power, as ISIS terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al...

THE NHS will haemorrhage staff unless pay is restored to match national averages, the Society of Radiographers (SoR) warned on Tuesday. The SoR has submitted...

JUST five months after being elected with a landslide majority, a life or death political and economic crisis has engulfed British capitalism. Labour PM Sir...

  BY IVAN KESIC The findings of aviation enthusiasts and UK-based investigative journalists about British espionage activities in Gaza with aircraft stationed in Cyprus reveal...

FRENCH bourgeois rule was plunged into a massive crisis on Wednesday when MPs voted to kick out prime minister Michel Barnier’s administration after just...

PRIME Minister Keir Starmer yesterday unveiled a ‘Plan for Change’, setting out a series of ‘milestones’ his government pledged to achieve over the course...

economic stability in East Asia. This anti-communist idyll theme, has been shaken to the core after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, citing the...

‘NO to martial law! Strike down the dictatorship! Open the gate!’ demonstrators shouted outside South Korea’s Parliament last night after President Yoon Suk Yeol...

Yesterday, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) issued a warning to Labour’s chancellor Rachel Reeves that growth expectations amongst UK companies have taken ‘a...

THE Palestinian Centre for Human Rights stated yesterday that the Israeli occupation army’s targeting of the World Central Kitchen team in southern Gaza is...

At the end of Saturday’s London March the first speaker at the rally in Whitehall was Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK,...

THERE were 150,000 workers, students and youth marching through the streets of London for Palestine from Hyde Park Corner to Whitehall on Saturday. As the...

AROUND 1,000 Kurds and their supporters marched from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street yesterday afternoon in protest against the police attack on the Kurdish...

There was a lively protest on Thursday afternoon of around 60 people outside Stratford Town Hall in support of the ‘Day of Action for...

ALARM is spreading among US imperialism’s imperialist rivals at incoming US president Donald Trump’s pledge to make ‘America Great Again’ by pauperising the whole...

THE Kurdish Community in London have written a statement ahead of a march in central London tomorrow against the arrest of Kurdish demonstrators in...

THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Wednesday hailed the ceasefire agreement forced on the Israeli regime, saying that it has shattered prime minister Benjamin...

STRIKING PCS members were protesting outside the Department of Business & Trade yesterday and showing their support for Palestine. They were joined by a group...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday evening that his government has approved a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah in Lebanon, following weeks of...

An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on October 25, 2024, that killed three journalists and injured four others was most likely a deliberate attack on civilians...

Labour yesterday unveiled its much trailed ‘Get Britain Working’ plan, hailed by Starmer’s government as the  ‘biggest employment reforms in a generation’, to drive...

THE tuc issued the following statement in support of tomorrow’s Workplace Day of Action for Palestine: ‘The TUC and unions are supporting the workplace day...

‘UNDER this Labour government, if you can work you must work,’ Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told the House of Commons yesterday. Launching the...

LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves turned up at the annual conference of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) yesterday to defend her autumn budget in...

A UK/Sierra Leone-led draft resolution calling for a ceasefire in Sudan at the UN Security Council meeting chaired by British Foreign Secretary David Lammy...

THE Hamas movement said on Saturday that the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in the northern Gaza Strip and the Israeli occupation army’s attacks on...

THE STARMER Labour government is launching its war on the sick, the disabled and the unemployed, with the youth particularly targeted, as it brings...

ARREST warrants for genocide for Israeli PM Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant were finally issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) this...