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Youth Demand stage protests across London demanding full trade embargo on Israel

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Youth demand activists on April 14, 2024

YOUTH DEMAND swarmed London on Saturday to demand a trade embargo on Israel and taxes on the super-rich to pay climate reparations.

Sixty-three activists split into two groups and disrupted traffic across the capital including at Aldgate East station, High Holborn, London Bridge and Oxford Circus.

Both teams then converged on Waterloo Bridge where they remained for half an hour, before two supporters were arrested under breach of Section 7 of the Public Order Act.A Youth Demand spokesperson said: “Since October 7 2023, more than 10 children in Gaza have lost one or both of their legs each day since Israel began indiscriminately murdering civilians. “The operations to save these children’s lives are often carried out without anaesthetic due to the ongoing blockade of food and medical supplies being prevented from entering Gaza. “The UK is providing the weapons and logistical support that are being used to blow these children’s limbs off. “What sort of ‘decent’ and ‘respectable’ society allows this to happen in 2025?? We need a total trade embargo with Israel right now!”

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Experiencing issues with this image not appearing. I suspect because it's so critical of Zionist Keir Starmer's support of and complicity in Israel's genocides. — Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpA

UK Foreign Minister David Lammy confirms that UK government and military are active participants in Israel’s genocides and that the F-35 parts that they suspended from supplying to Israel are instead simply diverted via the United States. He says see https://youtu.be/QILgUHrdWRE

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Post published:22 April 2025
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Scottish government is failing to make urgent progress to meet its goals on reducing emissions

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Ratcliffe on Soar power station near Nottingham

THE Scottish government is failing to make urgent progress to meet its goals on reducing emissions, an environmental watchdog said today.

Emma Pinchbeck, chief executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), said ministers are not delivering on the “short-term stuff” needed to meet the 2045 net-zero target.

The intervention comes a year after the Scottish government scrapped its legally binding annual and interim targets for cutting carbon emissions after admitting they would not be met.The overall goal of net zero by 2045 remains in place but experts have warned urgent progress is needed now if that is to be achieved.Speaking to Holyrood magazine a month before the CCC publishes its latest advice to the Scottish government, Ms Pinchbeck said climate progress across Britain was stalling.She said: “The much more important thing for the Scottish government to focus on right now is progress right in front of their faces in the next five to 10 years.is failing to make urgent progress to meet its goals on reducing emissions, an environmental watchdog said today.

Emma Pinchbeck, chief executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), said ministers are not delivering on the “short-term stuff” needed to meet the 2045 net-zero target.

The intervention comes a year after the Scottish government scrapped its legally binding annual and interim targets for cutting carbon emissions after admitting they would not be met.The overall goal of net zero by 2045 remains in place but experts have warned urgent progress is needed now if that is to be achieved.Speaking to Holyrood magazine a month before the CCC publishes its latest advice to the Scottish government, Ms Pinchbeck said climate progress across Britain was stalling.She said: “The much more important thing for the Scottish government to focus on right now is progress right in front of their faces in the next five to 10 years.

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Post published:22 April 2025
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Venezuela slams El Salvador over migrant ‘hostages’

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El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele waves as he departs following a meeting at the White House with President Donald Trump, April 14, 2025, in Washington

THE Venezuelan government has slammed El Salvador’s far-right President Nayib Bukele for admitting that he was holding 252 Venezuelan migrants as “hostages” in detention centres and demanded their immediate release.

Mr Bukele said on Sunday that he was proposing a prisoner swap with Venezuela.

He said El Salvador would exchange Venezuelan deportees from the United States who have been imprisoned by his government for what he described as “political prisoners” in Venezuela.

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Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab called Mr Bukele’s statements “cynical” and referred to the Salvadoran leader as a “neofascist.”He said Mr Bukele accepted that he was holding “252 Venezuelans hostage in El Salvador.”Mr Saab demanded that the Salvadorean government provide Caracas with a list of the people detained as well as their legal status and medical reports. El Salvador’s actions are “a serious violation of international human rights law and constitutes a crime against humanity that mimics the repugnant Nazi practices of the mid-20th century,” he charged.

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Donald Fuhrump says that Amerikkka doesn't bother with crimes or charges anymore, not being 100% Amerikkkan and opposing his real estate intentions is enough. — Donald Fuhrump says that Amerikkka doesn’t bother with crimes or charges anymore, not being 100% Amerikkkan and opposing his real estate intentions is enough.

Elon Musk urges you to be a Fascist like him, says that you can ignore facts and reality then.

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Yes to workers’ rights, no to the far right: join the May Day march

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Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right

THE history of London May Day is rooted in the call for an eight-hour day by the Second International in 1890, and is marked by working-class activism and evolving political agendas. Several attempts to detach May Day from the labour movement, rejecting its roots in class struggle, have failed. May Day marches in Britain and London continue to be held annually.

One hundred and thirty four years later, on Thursday May 1 2025, London May Day marchers will assemble in Clerkenwell Green and march to Trafalgar Square led by the Big Red Band, where a rally will be held bringing together thousands of workers from many different unions and communities. Traditional, maybe, but more importantly, a gesture of class assertion, an assembly of trade unionists uniting on a working day, joining up with working-class organisations assembling in support of this year’s theme, Yes to Workers Rights, No to the Far Right.

Ismara Vargas Walter, Cuban ambassador to Britain, will address assembled crowds on the steps of the Marx Memorial Library where the march will assemble and then march to Trafalgar Square to hear speakers at the rally including Eddie Dempsey, recently elected RMT general secretary, Jackie Peckham (deputy general secretary of the NASUWT), Dr Husam Zomlot, Palestinian ambassador to Britain, Tubisam Ahmed from Unite, a striking worker and representatives from community organisations.Many different organisations will be welcomed by trade unionists on the march, including representatives from Tamil, Kashmiri, Turkish and Kurdish, Cypriot, Pakistani, Indian, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi communities and groups and many others too.

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