“This Government is so pathetically in the pocket of Heathrow bosses and the most wealthy frequent flyers, that it will support this ridiculous and costly plan for expansion, despite the miserable disruption it will cause to everyone else’s daily lives.
“These plans will trash our vital climate targets, and meanwhile cause misery on the roads, all for the benefit of the very richest people.
“This Labour Government must fix its twisted priorities, ditch the aviation obsession, and invest its effort instead in a real green future with high-paid green jobs, warmer homes, and cheaper bills.”
A registration form and a stethoscope at the Temple Fortune Health Centre GP Practice near Golders Green, London
A “PFI 2.0” will divert money away from patients and into shareholders’ pockets, campaigners warned today as the government announced plans to use private finance to fund new neighbourhood health centres.
The government has pledged to open 250 centres as part of an effort to shift outpatient care away from hospitals.
Officials say they will serve as “one-stop shops,” bringing together GPs, nurses, dentists and pharmacists under one roof.
Announcing the plans, Health Minister Karin Smyth warned that government funding “will only get us so far,” citing a £40 billion black hole in the NHS’s finances.
“We need to use every measure available to us, which is why we’re leveraging in private investment to construct some of these centres, making the most of all expertise and every tool at our disposal,” she said.
But campaigners have warned that the use of public-private partnerships could repeat the mistakes of disastrous PFI (private finance initiative) schemes, in which private firms financed the construction of hospitals, leaving taxpayers lumbered with high-interest repayments over the long term.
Zarah Sultana spoke to Socialist Worker ahead of the Your Party conference
‘Your Party must be explicitly socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist—and also as maximally democratic,’ she told Socialist Worker
Zarah Sultana issued a rallying call for the left to unite and fight ahead of the Your Party founding conference in Liverpool this weekend.
She told Socialist Worker, “Labour is plummeting in the polls because this government has failed the working class.
“It has failed to help people here at home—and it has alienated thousands if not millions by materially participating in the genocide in Gaza.
“Reform UK is exploiting that anger, but it’s just the establishment in disguise.
“Farage scapegoats migrants to distract from his neoliberal economic agenda.
“We have a duty to offer a real alternative. Your Party must be explicitly socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist—and also as maximally democratic.
“We must build a party robust enough to take on entrenched power and win.
“No more tinkering at the edges—we need to reconstruct our society from first principles. We need socialism.
“History will not forgive us if we fail to capitalise on this moment. The options are socialism or barbarism.
“We must fight, we must unite and we must win.”
Orcas discuss the formation of UK’s new Socialist party and ask if the killer apes have finally come to their senses.
Neo-Fascist Climate Science Denier Donald Trump says Burn, Baby, Burn.
The commitment was no new oil or gas extraction. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to abandon that today by announcing new oil and gas extraction in the North Sea. There will be some BS explaining that it’s somehow not new when of course it is. This was expected from these shits (they abandon all their commitments) from the expansion of airports and possibly allowing the huge Rosebank proposed oil field.
Ed Miliband is a useful idiot pretending that the Labour Party have a responsible climate policy which is shown to be untrue and they’re just climate wrecking shits like other right-wingers.
Elon Musk urges you to be a Fascist like him, says that you can ignore facts and reality then.Nigel Farage urges you to ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him and his Deputy Richard Tice. He says that Reform UK has received £Millions and £Millions from the fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial and destroy the planet.
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Black smoke rises over buildings after a rocket, left over from Israeli attacks, explodes in Gaza City, Gaza on November 24, 2025. [Khames Alrefi – Anadolu Agency]
A news report by AlJazeera this week stated that Israel violated the ceasefire 497 times in 44 days since 10 October. Lauded by the international community, the ceasefire was supposed to bring an end to airstrikes, starvation and allow the delivery of humanitarian aid, as well as the return of Palestinians to the rubble of their homes in Gaza. But ceasefire in diplomatic rhetoric falls even short of a veneer as Israel continues its genocide with a slower pace.
Israel can further violate the ceasefire with UN Resolution 2803, which places the US in control of Gaza for Israel’s colonial expansionist plans. Israel – a genocidal entity that has violated the ceasefire hundreds of times – determines the coordination of the US plan. Which means that as a reward for committing genocide, Israel gets the freedom to determine the pace of genocide, now that the worst has been normalised.
Even mainstream media is reporting on Israel’s ceasefire violations. Two weeks ago, the BBCnoted that Israel destroyed over 1,500 buildings in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect, although it also made sure to add the comments of an unnamed Israeli military spokesperson saying that Israel was acting “in accordance with the ceasefire framework”.
According to the US, there was no genocide in Gaza. According to the Palestinian people and the majority of the world’s people, there is genocide in Gaza and there is no ceasefire in Gaza. What term does one coin for a non-existent ceasefire? Or a ceasefire that only exists in diplomatic agreements that provide impunity for Israel’s genocide?
What will the non-existent ceasefire mean in terms of Gaza’s reconstruction and military occupation amid a normalised, slow-paced genocide? There is talk of partitioning Gaza, but the likelihood of colonial expansion is even greater. And all is happening under the guise of a ceasefire with no validity and no implementation.
The only time we should be uttering the word ceasefire is to point out that there is no ceasefire. Other than that, the entire world should be pointing out that Israel is continuing its colonial expansion through genocide. Ceasefire rhetoric is an imposition upon Palestinians. It renders them defenceless just as much as the genocide did. The Israeli military now controls 53 per cent of Gaza. What did Zionist leaders do when they were granted 55 per cent of Palestine? History is repeating itself and the international community is concealing evident links under ceasefire rhetoric.
As the international community does its best to fade Israel’s genocide into oblivion, so will Gaza be depleted. The UN will continue with its statistical data, possibly since the “ceasefire”, thus marking an end to what is actually a continuation. And the usual terminology, linked to the non-existent ceasefire, such as humanitarian aid, food, displacement, education, Israel killing Palestinians, will once again be classified as individual violations of international law, instead of actions contributing to an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land. The ceasefire does not exist, the Nakba never ended, and it is incumbent upon the UN, particularly given its complicity with colonialism, to join the dots for the rest of the world and finally divulge what a travesty it has created out of human rights and international law.
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Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.Genocide denying UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy says that UK is suspending 30 of 350 arms licences to Israel. He also confirms the UK government’s support for Israel’s Gaza genocide and the UK government and military’s active participation in genocide.
A registration form and a stethoscope at the Temple Fortune Health Centre GP Practice near Golders Green, London
