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IRAN’S parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said yesterday that US President Trump’s threat of an ‘economic D-Day’ next Tuesday shows Washington is unable to prevail militarily. ‘The Americans and the Israelis have realised that they cannot handle Iran … in the field of a hard military war, so they have entered into a cognitive war […] The post Trump’s sanctions threat to Iran is ‘military…
INSTITUTE for Cancer Research (ICR) strikers welcomed great support, including from abroad and other unions as they held a rally outside South Kensington Tube Station in central London yesterday morning. The workers employed in Chelsea and in Sutton are in their 11th week of indefinite strike action against management’s refusal to negotiate a better pay […] The post Cancer strikers win growing…
THE CRISIS OF CAPITALISM, in reality its death agony, is now being played out all over the capitalist world with headlines screaming out that the ‘Bond Market rout shows that markets are losing confidence in countries ability to repay their debts’. Jeremy Warner writes in the Daily Telegraph that: ‘Theoretically, this should have been brought […] The post Capitalist Crisis Is Deepening As Bankers…
A drone registered to the American defence contractor Shield AI was hovering 500 metres from the burning wreck of an Ecuadorian fishing boat within hours of it being bombed in the eastern Pacific, flight tracking data shows. La Negra Francisca was struck at 1:02pm on 17 March 2026 at coordinates 1.5822°N, 87.6958°W, a position corroborated […] The post US drone used to wreck Ecuadorian fishing…
FOREIGN Secretary Ed Miliband has called Israel’s opening of bidding on 1,234 settlement homes east of Jerusalem ‘an unacceptable and destructive act’ and summoned Israel’s chargé d’affaires to the Foreign Office to demand an immediate reversal. Miliband said he had told his Israeli counterpart Gideon Sa’ar: ‘The Israeli government must halt E1 plans immediately, retract […] The post Miliband…
STRIKERS from the Institute of Cancer Research at its Chelsea and Sutton sites met at Sutton railway station yesterday as part of their ongoing strike for a proper rate of pay. Danny Habte, one of the Chelsea strikers told the News Line: ‘We are still pushing the management to negotiate. The strike was made indefinite […] The post Cancer Research Strikers Meet Up At Sutton appeared first on…
CLOSE to 700,000 Palestinian children have now been deprived of formal in-person schooling for a third year running, according to UNICEF, as the education system destroyed by Israel’s genocidal war remains almost entirely in ruins. Nearly 98 per cent of school buildings in Gaza have been damaged, and 526 of the strip’s 564 schools, over […] The post Hundreds of thousands of Gaza’s children still…
The Central Committee of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) has held a meeting, chaired by Deputy Chairman Hussein al-Sheikh, to discuss Israel’s ongoing attacks against the Palestinian people amid its war on the Gaza Strip, as well as continued settler attacks, violence and displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank, including Jerusalem. In a […] The post Action needed now to…
A JURY at the Old Bailey has been discharged after failing to reach verdicts on any charge against seven Palestine Action activists accused of organising the August 2024 action at the Elbit Systems weapons factory at Filton, near Bristol. Judge Patrick Field discharged the jury yesterday after more than 37 hours of deliberation. The trial […] The post Jury fails to reach verdict in Palestine…
A JUDGE has dismissed felony embezzlement and false pretences charges against a pro-Palestinian University of Michigan graduate student accused of using university funds to buy laptops for a student club. Her union described the case as an attempt to punish organising against the university’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The charges against Hiab Teshome, […] The post Michigan case…
ON Monday, US president Trump responded to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the US and Iran as it reached the end of the 60 days, during which negotiations were supposed to take place on ending the unprovoked war launched on February 28. He told journalists he was ‘not in a hurry’ to end the […] The post Global oil reserve shrinks at alarming levels as US fails to force reopening of…
UNITE members on strike at the Institute of Cancer Research in Chelsea say they are confident of winning their pay dispute. ‘We rejected the management’s last offer 3 weeks ago so we are not going anywhere,’ Unite representative Teige Matthews-Palmer told News Line. ‘We will be going to our site in Sutton tomorrow to greet […] The post Cancer Research Strikers Are Confident Of Victory! appeared…
HAMAS has welcomed Trump’s statement that Israel should stop striking Gaza so that the second phase of the ceasefire can begin. This comes in response to Netanyahu’s constant refusal to follow the peace plan by initiating Israeli withdrawal from the strip and and ceasing daily attacks. The movement’s spokesman Hazem Qassem urged Washington on Monday […] The post Israel must stop bombing Gaza says…
Argentina’s university teachers began a five-day national strike yesterday (Tuesday) marking 300 days since Congress sanctioned the University Financing Law that right-wing President Javier Milei’s government has still not applied. The stoppage, called by the Conadu Histórica union federation, follows a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday 12 August by teaching and non-teaching staff, and comes…
GOVERNMENT borrowing across the most advanced capitalist nations in the world has been hit with the highest interest rate increases in decades, as the financial investors, who plough their money into buying up government debt, react to the failure of the United States to defeat Iran and secure the opening of the Strait of Hormuz. […] The post Interest repayments on national debts surge to…
ARRIVA bus drivers mounted another strong picket at Wood Green garage in north London yesterday on the second day of their strike over terms and conditions and the unbearable heat in their cabs. Unite representatives met the company on Monday, and Arriva has put forward a deal. Members will vote on it in a paper […] The post 1,500 Arriva Bus Drivers Strike Over Conditions! appeared first on…
Iran’s Army Commander-in-Chief, Major General Amir Hatami, has announced a financial reward for anyone who kills or captures an aggressor United States soldier, declaring that the era of American military presence in the Persian Gulf is over for good. Speaking at a ceremony honouring National Journalist Day, General Hatami revealed a new initiative, backed by public […] The post Iran announces…
The extreme right-wing security minister in the government of Israel has publicly called for the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) to carry out a ‘nightly assassination quota’ of Palestinians in Gaza. Ultra-Zionist Itamar Ben-Gvir said: ‘I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night’. In comments that came […] The post Israeli ‘security minister’…
