dizzy, Author at ... on a quiet day, I can hear her breathing

Racist thugs storm homes of refugees

Spread the love

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/racist-thugs-storm-homes-refugees

FAMILIES TARGETED: Damage caused to a house on Bracken Road following disorder in the village of Thetford in Norfolk

A“RACIST pogrom” in Thetford has seen thugs storm homes they suspect of housing refugees and attack police, an anti-racist group warned on Friday.

Police bracing for further violence have warned that those taking part in the disorder will face “the full force of the law,” with two more people arrested on Thursday on a third consecutive night of unrest in the Norfolk market town.

People have attempted to storm homes linked to asylum-seekers following proposals to convert a former military base just over the border in Suffolk, RAF Barnham, into asylum-seeker accommodation for up to 3,750 people.

Officers were “subjected to significant aggression” on Wednesday, with one hit with a rock, one bitten and another spat at.

Two officers were taken to hospital.

Michael Bradley, of Stand up to Racism, told the Star: “The violence in Thetford amounts to a racist pogrom.

“A violent crowd has attacked homes and forced those they think to be asylum-seekers out of the area.

“This is the fruit of years of scapegoating and racism, by mainstream politicians and the media – stirred up and promoted by the far right.”

…

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/racist-thugs-storm-homes-refugees

Climate science denier Nigel Farage explains that it's simple to blame asylum-seekers or Muslims for everything. — Climate science denier Nigel Farage explains that it’s simple to blame asylum-seekers or Muslims for everything.

Post author:dizzy
Post published:10 August 2026
Post category:Nigel Farage plutocracy political bigotry and intolerance politics Reform 2025 Ltd (Reform UK)
Post comments:0 Comments

Communist Party delivers much needed medical aid to Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health in Havana

Spread the love

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/communist-party-delivers-much-needed-medical-aid-cubas-ministry-public-health-havana

Comrades Gordon and Douglas with Cuban health officials

Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island

ON THURSDAY a delegation from the Communist Party of Britain was received at Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health (Ministerio de Salud Publica) in Havana by Dr Henry Lopez Jimenez, Deputy Director of Public Health, a vetaran of Cuba’s Medical Brigades in Mozambique where he worked at the Central Hospital in Nampula.

The CPB delegation was led by general secretary Alex Gordon and party chair Lorraine Douglas and included Ben Woodward who is in Havana as part of a brigade organised by the Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP), the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples.

Dr Henry Lopez Jimenez outlined the extreme privations that have been created in Cuba’s world renowned health system as a result of the US blockade and sanctions regimes.

Cuba’s infant mortality rate has increased as a direct consequence of the cruel and deliberate attack by the Trump administration on the Cuban people’s healthcare system. Cuban surgeons and nurses have been forced to complete medical operations using light from their own mobile phones during power cuts.

The CPB delegation presented the Cuban health service with over £2,000 of medicines including analgesic painkillers, anti-inflamatory tablets and other medical aid, an advance donation from the Aid for Cuba appeal recently launched by the CPB, which raised £32,000.

…

Article continues at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/communist-party-delivers-much-needed-medical-aid-cubas-ministry-public-health-havana

Post author:dizzy
Post published:10 August 2026
Post category:Communist Party Fascism Neo-liberalism new authoritarianism plutocracy politics Socialism the filthy rich
Post comments:0 Comments

Tories slammed over ‘divisive’ plans to remove foreign nationals’ right to social housing

Spread the love

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tories-slammed-over-divisive-plans-remove-foreign-nationals-right-social-housing

DIVISIVE: Shadow work and pensions secretary Helen Whately

FOREIGN nationals would lose their right to social housing in Britain if the Tories return to power, the party announced on Friday in new “divisive” plans.

Under the proposals, about 230,000 homes would become available by removing foreign nationals’ entitlement to social housing, with affected tenants required to move out within six months.

Foreign nationals with settled status, refugee status, or specific humanitarian protections currently qualify for social housing, while asylum seekers are generally ineligible.

Any single person in social housing who is not a UK, Irish or EU citizen would lose their home, the Conservatives say, including those with children.

Anyone with EU settled status would be exempt, but couples where neither partner holds British, EU or settled status would lose their entitlement.

…

The plans were condemned by the housing charity Shelter.

Chief executive Sarah Elliott said: “These divisive plans would brutally kick people out of their homes, including thousands of families and pensioners who have lived in them for decades.

“And let’s not forget that social tenants pay rent, which goes back to the public purse and into society.

“It is completely senseless to ruin people’s lives, drive up homelessness and put extreme pressure on councils.

…

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tories-slammed-over-divisive-plans-remove-foreign-nationals-right-social-housing

Post author:dizzy
Post published:10 August 2026
Post category:conservatives Fascism plutocracy politics
Post comments:0 Comments

More than 1 million children lost access to food benefits after Trump bill passed

Spread the love

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/25/food-stamps-children-trump

A person receives food aid bags at the Young Family YMCA in Atlanta, Georgia, 6 November 2025. Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA

Analysis finds more than 4 million Americans lost Snap benefits, or food stamps, from July 2025 to March 2026

More than a million children across the US have lost access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) food benefits since Congress approved the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July 2025, according to a new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP).

The analysis found that more than 4 millions Americans were removed from Snap from July 2025 to March 2026, marking a significant decline in participation in the federal food assistance program.

…

According to the CBPP analysis, children make up a significant portion of those losing benefits, with more than 1 million children across the 19 states studied no longer receiving Snap assistance.

In Louisiana, nearly one in four children receiving Snap benefits lost assistance. Massachusetts and Texas each saw close to one-fifth of children enrolled in the program removed from Snap.

The report comes as participation in the program continues to fall nationwide following major reductions to the federal food assistance program under the Trump administration.

Snap, commonly referred to as food stamps, provides monthly benefits to low-income and no-income households to help pay for groceries and remains the country’s largest food assistance program.

…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/25/food-stamps-children-trump