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Unions to demand Labour changes course in national demonstration

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 People take part in the People’s Assembly Britain is Broken national demonstration in central London, November 5, 2022

People’s Assembly demo on June 7 will warn ministers to stop the cuts and invest or face oblivion

UNIONS will confront Labour’s cuts agenda next month with a national demonstration demanding the party change course.

The People’s Assembly held a press conference today to call on the whole labour movement to march with it at the No More Austerity demonstration in London on Saturday June 7.

The march takes place days before Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to announce her first multi-year spending settlement on June 11, and is intended to maximise pressure on the government to drop Ms Reeves’ self-imposed fiscal rules, tax wealth and profits and raise spending to address funding crises across health, education, local government and many other sectors.

Labour MP Diane Abbott said the disastrous result of this month’s council elections were leading an increasing number of MPs to realise the need to stand up to Mr Starmer and change his policies, she said.

“The result of the Runcorn by-election and the council elections have had an extraordinary effect on my colleagues,” she told the Morning Star. “They can see their majorities crumbling before their eyes, and there’s nothing that concentrates the mind of an MP more than the threat of actually losing their seat and the salary that goes with it.”

More MPs had started to understand that the Starmer clique only knew how to do one thing — attack the Labour left — and was incapable of addressing the bigger challenges of government, she said.

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Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership all feel a small part of Scunthorpe.
Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership all feel a small part of Scunthorpe.
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Palestine Action targets Elbit’s investors, insurers, landlords and Filton factory on Nakba Day

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 Palestine Action activists. Photo: Milo Chandler

PALESTINIAN activists targeted Elbit’s investors, insurers and landlords on Nakba Day today.

Filton weapons factory in Bristol, owned by the Israel-based international military technology company and defence contractor Elbit Systems, was also blocked by a repurposed ambulance as part of Palestine Action’s day of protest.

Speaking from the roof of the ambulance, one of the activists said: “Almost 20,000 Palestinian children have been killed, and that’s why we’re here to shut down this factory.”Actions took place against the Glasgow offices of Elbit’s insurers, Allianz, the Manchester-based landlords of Elbit’s Bristol HQ and the Edinburgh offices of Elbit’s investors, BNY Mellon.

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UK Labour Party government Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves explain that they are participants and complicit in Israel's Gaza genocide providing Israel with army and air force support. They explain that they don't do gas chambers but do do forced marches, starvation, destroy hospitals, mass-murders of journalists and healthcare workers.
UK Labour Party government Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves explain that they are participants and complicit in Israel’s Gaza genocide providing Israel with army and air force support. They explain that they don’t do gas chambers but do do forced marches, starvation, destroy hospitals, mass-murders of journalists and healthcare workers.
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Human rights groups intervene over Rosebank links to illegal Israeli settlements

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 Climate activists from Greenpeace and Uplift during a demonstration outside the Scottish Court of Session, Edinburgh, on the first day of the Rosebank and Jackdaw judicial review hearing, November 12, 2024

HUMAN rights and environmental groups have challenged Rosebank oil field’s links to illegal Israeli settlements at its owner’s AGM.

Amnesty International intervened at the AGM of Equinor — the majority owner of the controversial Rosebank oil field — in Norway on Wednesday over its links to Delek Group, an Israeli fuel conglomerate.

Equinor shares ownership of Rosebank with Ithaca Energy, which is majority-owned by Delek Group.This means Equinor’s Rosebank project could send £253 million to the group, which operates in illegal settlements and provides fuel to the IDF, the campaigners say.

Delek Group has also been flagged by the UN for human rights violations in Palestine.

Greenpeace also tabled a first-of-its-kind shareholder proposal, which calls on Equinor to conduct due diligence over its links to companies operating in Israel’s illegal settlements.

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Orcas comment on killer apes destroying the planet by continuing to burn fossil fuels.
Orcas comment on killer apes destroying the planet by continuing to burn fossil fuels.
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