[ad_1] UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is set to vote Monday on a U.S. plan for Gaza that would provide international backing for a stabilization force and envisions a possible future pathway to an independent Palestinian state. But a big question remains: Will Russia veto it? After nearly two weeks of negotiations…
[ad_1] Sharon Graham, the general secretary of Unite, has taken pole position within the trade union bureaucracy in advocating for the Labour government’s militarist agenda. Graham welcomed Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s February 25 announcement in Parliament of an increase in military spending from 2.3 percent to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2027 through diverting…
[ad_1] The repression of students protesting Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is being mounted as a co-ordinated operation between university management, the police, including counter-terrorism units, and the highest levels of the state. A joint Liberty Investigates/Sky News report, “Uncovered: the ‘worsening crackdown’ on pro-Palestine activism at UK universities”, was accompanied by independent assessments of…
[ad_1] The protest at the Labour’s Party congress in Liverpool this weekend highlights the fact that the struggle against the Gaza genocide in Britain now centres on a political struggle against Keir Starmer’s government. The essential question posed is how such a struggle must be waged, on what programme and through what methods. The organisers…
[ad_1] I FELT the need to reply to Mervyn Gibson’s article, ‘Fascists are a total anathema to the unionist community’. I’m not going to comment on his main point regarding fascism/racism and loyalism (other than to make the obvious point that it’s taken him more than two weeks since the incidents in Bradbury Place/Botanic/Sandy Row…
[ad_1] Follow the SEP’s campaign at socialism2024.org.uk Attend our London election rally on June 30. The Socialist Equality Party’s (SEP) campaign for Tom Scripps in the London constituency of Holborn and St Pancras is challenging Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer, the incumbent MP, on a socialist and anti-war platform. Teams on Camden Town High Street, in…
[ad_1] UK Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned Monday, “The world is closer to a dangerous nuclear escalation than at any point since the Cuban missile crisis.” He did so in a speech launching the Tory party’s general election campaign citing an existential threat “that the next few years will be some of the most…
[ad_1] The truth about Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in Gaza was inadvertently spoken of by BBC journalist Nick Robinson Monday. It met a torrent of denunciations from Britain’s Conservative government and a prompted a swift apology from Robinson on behalf of the state broadcaster. Robinson, with the BBC since 1986, its political editor…
[ad_1] Supporters of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee at Royal Mail have responded to the appeal issued by the World Socialist Web Site Israel’s horrific bombing of the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist hospital in Gaza City, killing more than 500 medical personnel, patients and refugees, is part of a genocidal war against the Palestinians backed by…