Tag: police
Blow the whistle on the Tories by kicking them out
THE TORY health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, yesterday announced that the government is to issue for consultation draft guidelines that, it claims, will end the...
Abbas looking forward to meeting with Trump
RAMALLAH – March 16, 2017 President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday welcomed current international and Arab efforts to advance a comprehensive and just peace...
SA police clear 87 officers of Marikana miners massacre
SOUTH African Police have investigated and cleared 87 of their own officers in relation to the August 2012 police killings of 34 Marikana miners. South...
Occupy North Mid Hospital to stop closure
FOUR-HOUR waits in A&E at north Middlesex Hospital have increased by 380% while at the Royal Free Hospital in London, four-hour waits in A&E...
Abbas meets Greenblatt to ‘relaunch peace process’
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas’ meeting with US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Jason Greenblatt and their remarks hit the front page headlines in local Palestinian...
British troops in Afghanistan were ‘out of control’ and ‘feral’
THE CASE of Alexander Blackman (the former marine sergeant sentenced to life imprisonment in 2013 for the murder of a wounded Afghan fighter) has...
Trump’s Special Envoy Meets Netanyahu To Discuss Settlements!
US President Donald Trump’s special envoy on Monday discussed with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian Territories (oPT). Israeli newspaper...
Orgreave was a planned attack on the miners
‘I WAS ARRESTED on that day at Orgreave. It was a really terrible day. There were thousands and thousands of police, I was walking...
Reject the SNP attempt to split the working class! Forward to...
THE LEADER of the Scottish Nationalist Party, Nicola Sturgeon, dropped a bombshell yesterday with her announcement that she intends to push through a vote...
MPs must vote to quit the EU – forward to the...
THE Brexit Secretary Davis yesterday urged MPs not to ‘tie the prime minister’s hands’ and to defeat the two House of Lords amendments to...
South African teachers endorse Israeli Apartheid Week
THE South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU) endorses the Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) taking place from 6th-12th March, 2017. The week focuses on Palestinian political...
Israeli jeeps and bulldozers attack Gaza
A FLEET of Israeli bulldozers and military vehicles crossed the border fence into the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday and flattened private Palestinian...
Settler Kills Palestinian Youth In Hebron
A YOUNG Palestinian man was shot and killed by an Israeli settler in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron on Wednesday afternoon. The...
POA CONDEMNS INJUNCTION! – as Trade Union Act becomes law
The POA (Prison Officers Association) has condemned an injunction secured by the Tory government from judges banning its industrial action planned for yesterday. ‘The POA...
Palestinian Cabinet decides on West Bank only elections
THE PALESTINIAN cabinet decided on Tuesday to hold municipal elections on May 13 only in the West Bank with the exclusion of the Gaza...
Palestinian school stormed by Israeli soldiers
ISRAELI forces stormed a secondary school in the southern occupied West Bank village of Tuqu on Sunday. Three Palestinian teachers suffered from pepper spray...
Palestinian school in a street!
AFTER Israeli authorities shut down a Palestinian elementary school in the occupied East Jerusalem town of Sur Bahir last Thursday over alleged ‘incitement’ in...
Heseltine joins Blair’s campaign for an anti-Brexit uprising!
LORD Heseltine is notorious for his closure of the mining industry in 1993, as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in the Major...
Lesson from by-elections: Labour Party’s finished! Build the revolutionary party!
JEREMY Corbyn MP, leader of the Labour Party, said yesterday on the Stoke-on-Trent Central and Copeland by-elections results that ‘Labour’s victory in Stoke is...
Israeli Forces Evict Palestinians To Allow For Military Drill
ISRAELI forces on Wednesday ordered all Palestinian residents of Khirbit Tana, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, to leave their homes to...
Dozens of Bangladesh workers’ leaders are facing fabricated criminal charges!
DOZENS of garment workers and labour leaders are facing unfair or apparently fabricated criminal cases in Bangladesh after wage strikes in December 2016, Human...
Youth Uprising In Bobigny Suburb Of Paris
''I''M NO HERO,’ insisted 16-year-old Emmanuel Toula after he rescued a child from a burning car set alight during last Saturday night’s...
Ireland ‘will soon recognise Palestinian state’
THE Israeli Ambassador to Ireland relayed a warning to the Israeli government on Tuesday that the Irish parliament would soon move to recognise the...
New Espionage Act under way to jail journalists and whistleblowers
THE Tory government is set to introduce a new Espionage Act under which its judiciary will be able to jail journalists and ordinary members...
Trade union-led occupations and a general strike to remove the Tories...
‘THIS Conference must give a lead in the struggle to defend the NHS and stop it being destroyed by this Tory government... Trade union...
US unions condemn Trump officials!
THE Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) issued the following statement in response to the Senate confirmation of billionaire public education novice Betsy DeVos as US...
‘Syria owned by the Syrians’ insists President Assad – Part two
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad stressed in Damascus that Syria is owned by the Syrians and that the peace is two things. First, fighting terrorists...
Iran Ready To Defend Missile Programme!
IRAN has rejected any foreign meddling in its domestic affairs, and says it is ready to defend its missile programme ‘with full strength’ in...
New York taxi drivers strike against Trump travel ban – Uber...
THE Uber CEO retreated from the White House Business Advisory Group after organised immigrant drivers protested at the ‘Muslim ban’ and #DeleteUber went viral. New...
Palestinian reconciliation means PA ending security collaboration with Israel– says deputy...
THE first deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) has said that Palestinian national reconciliation could not be achieved amid the continued security...
TUC corporatists must be kicked out! Come to the ATUA conference...
THE TRADE Union Congress (TUC) organised the knifing in the back of the Southern guards’ and drivers’ struggle on Thursday, brokering a ‘deal’...
Israeli State Murder On The Occupied West Bank!
THE early morning traffic began to ease as the funeral procession departed from Bethlehem’s city limits, and cars sped up on their way to...
2,000 NHS DOCTORS WRITE WARNING LETTER TO PM MAY – ‘unacceptable...
MORE than 2,000 senior NHS doctors have signed a letter calling on Prime Minister Theresa May to increase spending on health and social care...
Greek workers battle cuts–while refugees freeze
ALL this week, poor Greek farmers intensified their struggle against the government’s policies of high taxation and pension cuts by setting up dozens of...
Oakland longshoremen march against Trump!
ON the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, many Americans wrung their hands. Some took to social media to express their discontent while others protested....
Supreme Court votes for EU again, as Labour demands a ‘meaningful...
AS EXPECTED, the Supreme Court has ruled against the government’s appeal, challenging its previous verdict that Parliament must vote on whether the government can...
BRUTAL CRACKDOWN ON GARMENT UNION – 4 years after the Rana...
FOUR years after the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh, in which more than 1,100 textile workers were killed when the garment factory they were...
Attempt to bring in strike ban bill defeated
AN ATTEMPT yesterday by the Tories to introduce a bill which would ban the right to strike in critical services, was overwhelmingly defeated...
May To Meet Trump On Friday – Trump To Meet The...
IT’S BEEN a lightning courtship. PM May is to meet Trump on Friday. May opposed the Brexit pre-referendum and was appointed PM by the 1922...
Right wing threaten to split Labour Party to try to halt...
RIGHT-WING Labour MPs, with the enthusiastic support of the Tory press, are manoeuvring once again to split the Labour Party so that they can...
Israeli army veteran Avigail Abarbanel opposes the occupation of Palestine!
THE plight of the Palestinian people under the military occupation is so painful that even sometimes the citizens of Israel recount it in heartwrenching...
UK trade unions must support the Palestinian people and assist them...
PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi told European diplomats on Tuesday that relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to...
Almost Every School In The Country Faces £1,000 Per Pupil Slashed...
ALMOST every school in the country is to have its funding slashed, some by as much as £1,000 per pupil per year, under the...
Smash the anti-union laws with a general strike
LAST Sunday fifty Tory MPs demanded the government bring in even more draconian laws aimed at breaking the growing strike movement that is gaining...
‘Two Thirds Of Palestinians Agree That A Two-State Solution Is Not...
BY RAMZY BAROUD – Ramzy Baroud is an internationally-syndicated columnist, author, and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a...