Tag: police
‘Metropolitan police recruiting criminals’ – concludes police watchdog
THE METROPOLITAN Police’s approach to tackling corruption within its ranks is ‘fundamentally flawed,’ an inspection by the police watchdog published yesterday concluded. It found the...
Hamas warns that Israel’s house demolitions will trigger ‘explosion’ of Palestinian...
PALESTINIAN Islamic Jihad and Hamas resistance movement have warned that Israel’s house demolitions and its expansion of illegal settlements in al-Quds (Jerusalem) will trigger...
Great Ormond Street security staff rally
SECURITY workers from Great Ormond St Children’s Hospital (GOSH) held a rally on Thursday at lunchtime to mark the end of their six week...
Black Schoolgirl Was Strip-Searched By Met Police
A BLACK schoolgirl was strip-searched by police after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis. The ‘traumatic’ search by Metropolitan Police officers took place without another...
College lecturers vote to condemn proscription of Hamas!
COLLEGE lecturers at the College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (Conel) on Thursday 10th March voted to condemn the Tory government’s proscription...
Supreme Court rejects Julian Assange extradition appeal!
THE UK Supreme Court yesterday rejected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s appeal of the decision to extradite him to the US, where the WikiLeaks co-founder...
What A Difference The War Drive Against Russia Makes For Ukrainian...
THE Tory government is offering all households in the UK £350 a month to take in people fleeing the war in the Ukraine. Housing...
Freed hunger striker Miqdad Qawasmi speaks out!
Eman Badr’s smile never leaves her face ever since her 25-year-old son Miqdad was released from Israeli prison following a 113-day, life-threatening hunger strike...
STOP the Tory drive for 20,000 more police! Smash the capitalist...
THE CHIEF Inspector of Constabulary, Tom Winsor, in his ninth and final annual review, has warned that Tory PM Johnson’s promise to hire 20,000...
Met ‘failed to perform its legal duty’ when it banned Sarah...
THE Metropolitan Police breached the rights of the organisers of a planned vigil for Sarah Everard, two judges have ruled. The group had to cancel...
Government trying to make itself untouchable says Liberty
NEW research by Liberty shows most people believe that no matter your role, everyone should follow the same rules and that no one should...
RESISTANCE, REBIRTH AND REVOLUTION – the fifth Congress of the United...
THE FIFTH Congress of the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), is taking place in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. Delegates filled the largest theatre...
TUC and Labour leaders call for ‘unity’ with Tory plan to...
WORLD capitalism was reeling yesterday as the economic sanctions, imposed to strangle the Russian economy and pave the way for regime change in Russia,...
‘Russia will finish the demilitarisation of Ukraine!’ says Dmitry Peskov Kremlin...
RUSSIA will finish the demilitarisation of Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview yesterday, underlining that the Ukraine must stick to a...
Starmer in National Government mode praises Johnson
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer sought to outbid the Tories in anti-Russian war rhetoric when he was interviewed on BBC TV yesterday morning. Claiming that...
SA Clover Strike Now 100 Days
Tensions are rising after negotiations have failed to progress in the three-month-long Clover strike. The strike began at the branded foods and beverages group on...
Truss insists workers must pay for war sanctions on Russia
TORY Foreign Secretary Liz Truss bluntly told British workers and their families that they will be made to pay the price for the imperialist...
Hamas and Hezbollah meet to counter Israeli aggression!
A LEADING delegation from the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has met with the Secretary-General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to discuss...
US-UK ruling classes are using Ukraine crisis and NATO to organise...
PM Boris Johnson said yesterday that Ukrainians are ‘fighting heroically’ and with ‘great success’ in some places against Russian troops who have intervened to...
As the Tories sanction Russia, UK workers have to pay the...
ENERGY bills are set to rise to an eye-watering £3,000 a year which will undoubtedly plunge millions of families into fuel poverty, where they...
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution
UNITED NATIONS special rapporteur on torture, Professor Nils Melzer, held a Question and Answer session with the Foreign Press Association (FPA) last Friday, discussing...
US-UK ruling classes are using Ukraine crisis to organise a new...
PM Boris Johnson is now fighting on two fronts. At home, against the Metropolitan Police inquiry into his law-breaking, and the demand that he be...
Expansion of US self-defence laws escalates the number of deaths
STAND-your-ground laws in the United States have expanded legal protections for individuals who use deadly violence in self-defence. But a new study published today estimates...
DEFEND THE RIGHT TO STRIKE – FBU responds to the latest...
Responding to the latest State of Fire report announced by the chief inspector of fire and rescue services Sir Tom Winsor, the Fire Brigades...
Abolish the monarchy – forward to a workers’ republic and socialism!
DETAILS of the settlement between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre to end her claim that she was forced to have sex with the Duke...
Israel used ‘assassination tactic’ against 3 Palestinian youth
A NEW investigation has revealed that Israel used an assassination tactic, not seen in the occupied West Bank for more than 15 years, in...
Poverty Stricken Haiti Workers Attacked By Riot Police
POVERTY-stricken garment workers in Haiti have been violently attacked by riot police. Last Thursday, for the second day in a row, police fired tear gas...
10 days of university workers strikes begin
STRIKING UCU union university lecturers and students set up picket lines at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) yesterday morning at the...
Postmasters demand justice after 20 years of persecution by the Post...
YESTERDAY, former Post Office sub-postmasters and mistresses began giving evidence to the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal which has been described as...
Inquiry into sub-postmasters scandal opens
‘I WANT someone tried and jailed like I was, then I am settled,’ Harjinder Butoy, who ran the Post Office in the Nottinghamshire market...
Met chief Cressida Dick quits! Unions must call a general strike...
METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick has quit! Millions will be cheering the news, and demanding that the whole Met Police force be disbanded...
Clover workers strike in SA since November 22
The General Industries Workers Union of SA (Giwusa) has lambasted Clover, claiming that the massive South African dairy producer is lining its pockets at...
Tunisian President Saied carries out ‘coup’
LEADING Tunisian judges on Sunday rejected President Kais Saied’s moves to disband the Supreme Judicial Council that oversees them, a move they see as...
Israeli forces assassinate three Nablus Palestinians
ISRAELI special forces killed three Palestinians and arrested another in the city of Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank yesterday....
Palestinian prisoners mobilise against Israeli repressions!
Palestinian political prisoners currently being held in Israeli detention have declared a state of general mobilisation against a new series of repressive measures by...
Police Commissioner takeover of Cumbria fire services! – Three fire stations...
THREE Cumbria fire stations risk closure as the entire service is under threat of being taken over by the Police and Crime Commissioner, the...
‘SYRIA MUST REGAIN CONTROL OVER ITS ENTIRE TERRITORY!’ – ‘The only...
RUSSIA’S Foreign Ministry has said that the only way to guarantee security in Syria is for the Syrian state to regain control over its...
Met chief Dick warns 43,000 officers over rot throughout force
THE MET POLICE Commissioner Cressida Dick in light of scandal after scandal engulfing the police force has sent a letter to all 43,000 officers...
Five Tory advisors quit! Finish Johnson and the Tories off with...
FIVE Tory advisors to Prime Minister Boris Johnson have now resigned. They are leaving the sinking ship while more Tory MPs have handed in...
1,500 Greek Hospital Workers March In Athens
SOME 1,500 hospital workers and doctors, along with delegations from public and private sector trade unions and university students, staged a militant rally and...
Disband the Met Police – forward to a workers state and...
WHEN Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel is forced to say that she is ‘appalled and sickened’ by the behaviour of Metropolitan Police officers, then...
‘Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians is a cruel system of domination and...
‘ISRAELI authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians,’ Amnesty International said on Tuesday in a damning new report. The...
TUC must be made to call mass demonstrations and a general...
PM Johnson yesterday fled the country to go to the Ukraine, where he will be able to adopt what he hopes will be a...
PM Johnson refuses to resign despite damning Gray report!
TORY PRIME Minister Boris Johnson refused to resign yesterday despite calls to do so from MPs of all parties across the House of Commons,...
‘The ANC is in a mess’ – Zingiswa Losi COSATU President
‘THE ANC NEC lekgotla was the opportunity to address and correct the existential crises facing the nation, the state and the movement. The question...