BRITAIN must cut spending on welfare benefits or face a miserable cycle of repeated tax rises every year, JP Morgan, the world’s largest bank, warned the UK government on Thursday. It warned Chancellor Rachel Reeves she must cut public spending in her November budget by targeting the rising number of pensioners and the one million […] The post Britain ordered to slash spending on welfare benefits or face huge tax rises appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
MORE than 100,000 nurses, teachers, firefighters and other public sector workers walked off the job across Aotearoa, New Zealand, on Thursday in one of the largest coordinated strikes in the country’s history. The unprecedented mobilisation, dubbed a ‘mega strike’ by organisers, brought together more than 60,000 school teachers, 40,000 nurses and medical specialists, and around […] The post Workers rise up across New Zealand in historic ‘mega strike’ appeared first on Workers Revo...| Workers Revolutionary Party
A NEW US-backed plan would divide Gaza into separate zones controlled by Israel and Hamas, allowing reconstruction only in the Israeli-held area and raising fears of a permanent Israeli occupation within the Strip. The proposal, reported by the Wall Street Journal, is among the most significant frameworks under discussion since the fragile ceasefire between Hamas […] The post US plans to split Gaza & allow reconstruction in the Israeli-held area appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
THE Israeli parliament approved in a narrow vote on Wednesday a bill that would extend Israeli domestic law to the occupied West Bank. The move is widely regarded as a step towards annexation, timed to coincide with the visit of US Vice-President JD Vance to East Jerusalem. The legislation, introduced by opposition members passed by […] The post Israel moves to annexe the occupied West Bank appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
OVER 350 workers employed by London Transit bus company are taking strike action today and Monday after rejecting the company’s latest pay offer. ‘We are the frontline workers who keep London moving, are proud to serve the public every single day. ‘Our members play a vital role in the city’s infrastructure and without us, the […] The post 350 London Transit workers on two days strike over pay appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
TRUE empowerment lies beyond the limits of capitalism, says SAFTU, the South African Federation of Trade Unions. A statement issued on Tuesday on behalf of SAFTU General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said: ‘The South African Federation of Trade Unions strongly opposes the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) Economic Inclusion for All Bill. ‘The DA’s proposed bill is a […] The post ‘We’ve got to get beyond the limits of capitalism’ say SAFTU trade unions appeared first on Workers Revolution...| Workers Revolutionary Party
IN WHAT was described as a ‘historic first’, a UK navy destroyer, HMS Duncan, was placed under the direct command of NATO and ordered to shadow a Russian warship as it passed through the English Channel. While it is common for UK navy vessels to track Russian ships travelling through the Channel, what made this […] The post NATO plans for war on Russia as capitalism crashes! Forward with world revolution appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
HAMAS is intensifying its security campaign against armed gangs and militias in Gaza that collaborate with the Israeli military, officials say, aiming to restore full control and stability across the strip. A senior security spokesman for Gaza’s Ministry of Interior said yesterday that Hamas will soon launch its largest operation yet to dismantle remaining armed […] The post Hamas intensifies its security campaign against collaborators appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
Authorities in Gaza have confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces stole body parts from killed Palestinians during the two-year genocidal war on the besieged territory. After Israel recently returned 120 mutilated bodies of Palestinian abductees as part of the ceasefire that took effect on October 10, medical examinations revealed that the occupying forces had removed […] The post HARVEST OF HORROR! – systematic organ harvesting by Israeli occupation appeared first on Workers Revoluti...| Workers Revolutionary Party
THE peace talks between Russia and the Western powers represented by Donald Trump have hit the buffers with an almighty bang after Russia refused to surrender and would not accept the USA’s terms for a ceasefire in the Ukraine. The White House confirmed yesterday that the US President would not be meeting Vladimir Putin, in […] The post Putin defies Trump – Time to Build 4th International – Forward with World Socialist Revolution! appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
IRANIAN Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has sharply rebuked US President Donald Trump for boasting about bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities, saying the American president has no authority to dictate what other countries can or cannot do. ‘Fine, keep dreaming,’ Khamenei said in reference to the US president’s boastful claim that he had destroyed Iran’s nuclear […] The post ‘The American president has no authority to dictate what other countries can and cannot do’ – says I...| Workers Revolutionary Party
THE Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that officials from Gaza’s health ministry had told it that at least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel to them had been held at the notorious Sde Teiman military base in the Negev desert. This military camp hit the headlines last year when photos and testimonies were published […] The post 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians tortured and murdered in Israeli prisons returned to Gaza appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
HAMAS leader and chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya said yesterday that he is confident the Gaza ceasefire agreement will succeed and hold. ‘We are determined to see the agreement through to its end,’ Hayya said in an interview with Al-Qahera News in the Egyptian capital Cairo, adding that the agreement ‘will survive because we want it […] The post ‘Ceasefire agreement will hold!’ – insists Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
ON SUNDAY, US president Donald Trump insisted that his ‘peace deal’ between the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and the Israeli regime was holding despite the continued deadly strikes being carried out by Israeli Occupation Force troops in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. The Gaza Government Media Office yesterday reported that Israel has killed at […] The post Israeli regime deliberately violating ‘peace deal’ since very first day appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
Although 11 days have passed since the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip came into effect, the war has not yet left the lives of Gazans. The smell of rubble still lingers in the alleys, and people continue to fight daily battles for survival amid extreme poverty, food insecurity, and ongoing displacement that weighs heavily […] The post In Gaza’s tents and alleyways, endless stories of resilience echo appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
A LETTER was delivered to the Home Office yesterday, informing it of a forthcoming hunger-strike by pro-Palestine prisoners held in British jails. The prisoners are members of the Filton 24 and Brize Norton 5, respectively, and are being held in prison, unconvicted, accused of taking part in two separate actions, claimed by the currently proscribed […] The post Pro-Palestine prisoners to go on hunger strike! appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
DURING stock market trading last Friday more than £12.8bn was wiped off the value of the UK’s bank stocks as the rumours of ‘bad American loans’ swept through the stock markets, along with predictions of an economic and political disaster. The FTSE 100 plunged by more than 1.7% in London, while HSBC, the second most […] The post Capitalism Is In Its Greatest Ever Crisis. Now Is The Time To Organise The World Socialist Revolution! appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
EDUCATION is resuming for 300,000 Palestinian students in the Gaza Strip after two years of the Israeli genocide war, with 8,000 teachers coming back to work, Adnan Abu Hasna, UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency announced yesterday. Abu Hasna said: ‘The agency has developed plans to resume education after two years of disruption,’ […] The post Gaza’s Children Going Back To School appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
LAST Friday, over 50,000 Cubans attended a rally in solidarity with Venezuela, a country facing the threat of US military aggression. The crowd was made up of young people, workers, and soldiers gathered before the equestrian statue of Simon Bolivar on Presidents’ Avenue in Havana, where they demanded that the United States respect the Venezuelan […] The post 50,000 Cubans rally for Venezuela against US aggression appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
AMID world stock markets crashing, and the head of the IMF revealing she has ‘sleepless nights’ over the dangerous risks of collapses in the shadow banking sector, business leaders in the UK have repeatedly warned Chancellor Rachel Reeves that tax increases on employers in her November budget would push up unemployment in the UK, already […] The post With stockmarkets crashing it is time to smash capitalism and go forward to world socialism! appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
Over 300 Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union members at the British Library are to strike from Monday 27 October until Sunday 9 November. The strike coincides with the two-year anniversary of a cyber-attack where staff members’ personal data was leaked on to the ‘dark web’, as well as the opening of a major new […] The post PCS pay strike at British Library and strike ballots at four Tate galleries appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
HAMAS has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of blocking the handover of Israeli captives’ bodies and obstructing humanitarian aid to Gaza, calling his actions part of a ‘fascist policy of collective punishment and political manipulation of humanitarian files’. In a statement on Thursday, the Islamic Resistance Movement said Netanyahu’s threats to delay the reopening […] The post ‘A fascist policy of collective punishment’ – Hamas accuses Israel’s PM! appeared...| Workers Revolutionary Party
ISRAEL has continued to obstruct the implementation of the ceasefire agreement by linking the reopening of the Rafah crossing and the entry of humanitarian aid to the recovery of its soldiers’ remains in Gaza. Israeli media quoted an official source saying the government would not move forward with the second phase of the deal until […] The post Israel obstructs the ceasefire agreement appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), an influential independent economic think-tank that dispenses ‘advice’ on financial matters to the government, has weighed in this week with some serious warnings to Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves about next month’s Autumn Budget. This Budget has become a make-or-break crisis for both Reeves and the Starmer government as they […] The post Capitalist financial markets instruct Reeves to make billions of pounds cuts to welfare! appeared first on ...| Workers Revolutionary Party
SENIOR Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti sustained multiple rib fractures after being violently assaulted by Israeli prison guards, it was revealed on Wednesday. Barghouti was attacked during his transfer from Rimon Prison to Megiddo Prison in mid-September. ‘He lost consciousness and suffered fractures in four ribs as a result of the beating,’ a statement said, accusing […] The post Senior Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti sustains multiple rib fractures after being violently assaulted by Isra...| Workers Revolutionary Party
THE director general of Gaza’s Government Media Office, Ismail al-Thawabta, yesterday demanded that Israel opens the crossings and allow aid in ‘immediately’, warning of acute water and food scarcity. Israel is limiting the number of aid trucks allowed to enter Gaza, telling the UN yesterday that it will only permit 300 trucks – half the […] The post Open The Crossings – Let In The Trucks! Stop Starving Gaza! appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
US President Donald Trump basked in adulation on Monday at the Israeli Knesset, where he was hailed as ‘the president of peace’, even as regime lawmakers laughed at his jokes, applauded his idle boasts, and rose for more standing ovations than one could count. Behind the theatrics, Trump’s address was marked by wilful distortion and […] The post Idle boasts and blatant lies: Trump’s Knesset speech appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
N a moment where the pain of siege merged with tears of joy and victory, Gaza emerged on Monday from beneath the rubble to welcome its freed prisoners, sons of the city returning from Israeli jails. It was a deeply symbolic scene that rekindled the essence of freedom Palestinians had long dreamed of and reminded […] The post Gaza Rises From The Rubble And Celebrates Its Real Heroes! appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
OVER 46,000 US healthcare workers have gone on strike against private health provider Kaiser Permanente. 31,000 United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP) members started a five day strike yesterday morning which will end at 7.00am on Sunday. Kaiser nurses, pharmacists, nurse anaesthetists, nurse practitioners, midwives, physician assistants, rehab therapists, speech language pathologists, dieticians […] The post Millions of American workers fi...| Workers Revolutionary Party
ON MONDAY, US president Donald Trump addressed the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, in a rambling hour-long speech where he boasted of the ‘historic dawn of a new Middle East’. Trump heaped praise on the Zionist regime while boasting that it had achieved a great victory over the Palestinians thanks to the huge amount of lethal […] The post Trump to send nuclear armed missiles to Ukraine – end imperialist wars with victory of world socialist revolution! appeared first on Workers Revol...| Workers Revolutionary Party
A GENERAL STRIKE for Palestine takes place in Spain today, with the different unions maintaining their calls for worldwide action to end the genocide in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Major unions, such as CGT and IAC, have called for a total strike and for all workers to stop throughout the working day. […] The post GENERAL STRIKE FOR PALESTINE! – across Spain today appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
THE GOVERNMENT of Venezuela has warned of an imminent military attack by the United States, which has stepped up deployment of naval and air forces a few miles off its coasts. The Venezuelan representative to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, told a session of the United Nations Security Council – requested by Caracas last Friday […] The post Venezuela warns of imminent US military attack! appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
THE JOINT annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank is taking place in Washington this week under conditions of the most acute crisis of the capitalist system in history. On Friday, they received a brutal shock when Donald Trump announced he had been ‘blindsided’ by China’s new rules requiring companies […] The post World bankers meet in Washington as crisis erupts across the capitalist financial system appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
PALESTINIAN Resistance Movement Hamas said that it made every effort to safeguard the lives of its captives in Gaza, the final 20 of whom were released yesterday, despite the Israeli military’s attempts to kill them. Their treatment was in sharp contrast to the torture meted out to the nearly 2,000 Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, who […] The post ‘Tortured on a daily basis’ – declare Palestinian prisoners appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
First speaker at the rally at the end of the march in Whitehall was Malik Mohammed from the Palestinian Forum in Britain, who said: ‘For two years, Gaza has lived in genocide and this most horrible thing, parents burying their children. Yes, a ceasefire has been announced. But we will not stop marching until there […] The post ‘We will not stop until there is a permanent ceasefire!’ appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
600,000 WORKERS AND YOUTH marched from Central London to Whitehall on Saturday in a massive show of strength and solidarity with the masses of Palestine, while at the same time many of them demanded the TUC call a general strike to bring down the Starmer government and bring in a Workers Government and Socialism. The […] The post 600,000 workers and youth march for Palestine – the TUC must call a general strike in support of Palestinian state! appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
MORE than half a million workers, students and youth held a powerful march for Palestine in central London on Saturday, marking two years of Israeli genocide, and celebrating the ceasefire that has been forced on the Israeli Zionist regime. ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!’ rang out from marchers the length […] The post ‘FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA PALESTINE WILL BE FREE!’ – 600,000 workers march in central London for Palestine appeared first on Workers Revolution...| Workers Revolutionary Party
Senior NHS doctors declared a state of national emergency in the NHS yesterday as waiting lists soared, with thousands of patients being treated in hospital corridors and with doctors balloting for strike action over pay and lack of work-placements for newly-qualified medics. This came just months after Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledge to increase NHS funding […] The post National emergency declared in NHS as waiting lists soar! appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
HAMAS and other Palestinian factions agreed on Thursday to a framework for a Gaza ceasefire after months of mediation by Qatar and Egypt. ‘From our side, yes,’ a Hamas official told US based Dropsite News, adding that they still needed to ‘finalise some points’ with mediators. A second source close to the negotiators said: ‘It’s […] The post Gaza ceasefire framework agreed appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
ISRAELI forces continued to bombard the Gaza Strip on Thursday despite an announcement by mediators that a ceasefire agreement had been reached to end the two-year genocidal assault. Heavy airstrikes and artillery fire were reported across Gaza City and Khan Younis overnight, killing and wounding dozens. Health officials confirmed at least nine deaths since dawn […] The post Israeli forces continue bombardment of Gaza appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
HAMAS said yesterday it had accepted a ceasefire framework reached through indirect talks in Cairo and based on a proposal by Donald Trump. The movement says the plan ‘stipulates ending the war on Gaza, the withdrawal of the occupation from it, and the entry of aid’ alongside an exchange of the remaining Israeli captives in […] The post HAMAS ACCEPTS CEASEFIRE! to end the war in Gaza and begin the withdrawal of the occupation appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
THE Bank of England on Wednesday warned of a growing risk of a ‘sudden correction’ in the world stock markets. The massive Artificial Intelligence (AI) bubble is on the verge of collapsing the world stock markets, as the share price of AI companies have reached stratospheric levels, completely disconnected from the actual profits these companies […] The post Bank of England warns that the AI stock market bubble is on verge of collapse! appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
TWO years have passed since the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7th, 2023, and the facts today have become far clearer: What happened and continues to happen in Gaza is not merely a ‘brutal reaction’, but an explicit exposure of the deeply rooted intellectual and political structure of the Zionist settler-colonial project. It is a project […] The post THE ZIONIST PROJECT DOES NOT RECOGNISE THE EXISTENCE OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE – report from the Palestine Information Centre appeared first o...| Workers Revolutionary Party
HAMAS said ‘the lists of prisoners required to be released’ as part of a ceasefire agreement were exchanged yesterday in Egypt. Taher al-Nunu, who is part of the Hamas delegation in Sharm el-Sheikh, was quoted in a statement published by the group as saying that the mediators are ‘making great efforts to remove any obstacles […] The post Prisoner release lists exchanged appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
TUESDAY’S demonstration saw more than 10,000 students march through central London on the 2nd anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation which broke the siege of Gaza on 7th October 2023. They defied the Starmer government which had warned them that they must not march in solidarity with the workers and youth of Palestine. Thousands more […] The post Students defy Starmer and give full support to the Palestinian Revolution! appeared first on Workers Revolutionary Party.| Workers Revolutionary Party
HAMAS and other Palestinian factions agreed on Thursday to a framework for a Gaza ceasefire after months of mediation by Qatar and Egypt. ‘From our...| Workers Revolutionary Party
Turning the Tide – The 1966 seamen’s strike and the making of modern maritime trade unionism. An RMT pamphlet, available free from RMT head office, 39 Chalton Street, NW1 15D, London (Tel: 0207 387 4771) PUBLISHED to mark the 50th anniversary of the then longest official strike since the first World War, Turning the Tide […]| Workers Revolutionary Party
