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America Has Betrayed Palestinians. We Will Still Prevail
Palestine Affairs, United Kingdom, USA, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

America Has Betrayed Palestinians. We Will Still Prevail

Posted by: John Phoenix Demonstrators gather outside United States Federal Court House in New York City to show support for pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, March 12, 2025 (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu Agency) “We have returned the question of our future to ourselves. It will be guaranteed by no passport, protected by no brutal superpower.” By Sarah Aziza, Reposted from The Nation, June 12, 2025 In 1994, my father, then aged 34, sat in a courthouse in Chicago surrounded by fellow immigrants. Dressed in his best suit, his practiced English poised and ready on his tongue, he raised his hand when the judge asked for a volunteer to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. He stifled his disappointment as another volunteer was chosen, but his chagrin soon faded, overta...
Falling life expectancy – a sign of The Times
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Falling life expectancy – a sign of The Times

Posted by: John Phoenix As the rising numbers of working poor and unemployed and the rapidly increasing cost of necessaries (food, clothing, housing, utilities) can no longer be contained by Britain’s dwindling social safety net, our bourgeois media are forced to acknowledge the existence of a deep cost of living crisis. How do they portray the misery of existence of the working class without pointing the figure at its root cause – capitalism? They don’t! Their tactics are threefold: reinforce the alleged failure of the only alternative system – socialism; create conflict between sections of the working class so blame is inwardly facing (racism) and expose the powerlessness of the bourgeois state to solve the contradictions of the capitalist system. Only one of their tactics is...
Letter from the frontline. A nurse’s view of the continuing sabotage of the NHS on the road to total privatisation
Health, United Kingdom

Letter from the frontline. A nurse’s view of the continuing sabotage of the NHS on the road to total privatisation

Posted by: John Phoenix The Labour Party has for many decades been seen by the British working classes as the champion and protector of our National Health Service (NHS). Whilst the Attlee government did create this entity, it was a tactic to appease working class Brits post WW2 and aimed to prevent the spread of the desire for proletarian revolution from the great Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) to our nation. Any illusions of a Labour administration benignly bestowing goodness or succour to the proletariat must surely have been smashed by the experience of the 21st century. Their abysmal record speaks for itself both on the international and domestic fronts. We can expect nothing better from the present Labour government. The NHS itself has been crippled fina...
Is Britain going bust?
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Is Britain going bust?

Posted by: John Phoenix Britain’s economy is in the world’s largest top ten.  Its GDP is about £3,22tn, amounting to about £48,000 per capita.  There are estimated to be 31.5 million households in the UK, meaning that GDP per household would amount to some £122,000.    Average income per household is in the region of £40,000. It sounds very comfortable, but of course the reality is very different. Inequality of distribution The inequality inherent in the way Britain’s national income is distributed, as evidenced by Britain’s gini coefficient standing (officially) at 0.36, is startling. If wealth distribution were perfectly equal the gini coefficient would be 0, and if all the country’s wealth belonged to a single person it would be 1.  The to...
Starmer’s failing militarism
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Starmer’s failing militarism

Posted by: John Phoenix As British imperialism slides further into crisis, its political leaders try to cover up this decline by making ever more grandiose pronouncements as to their ability to still “project power” into the world. The declarations made by Sir Keir Starmer regarding his willingness to send British forces to Ukraine should be seen in this light. Since it became clear that the Ukraine war was sliding towards an ignominious defeat for the Nato-backed forces of the Kiev regime, the US under the Trump administration has been trying to play a double game. On the one hand it has been engaging the Russians in negotiations and talking about ‘restoring relations’ with them. On the other it has been pushing the Europeans to (effectively) carry on with the ever-escalating ...
UK Tory leader: ‘Israel and Ukraine fighting ‘proxy wars’ for the West’
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UK Tory leader: ‘Israel and Ukraine fighting ‘proxy wars’ for the West’

Posted by: John Phoenix Kemi Badenoch has said Kiev is fighting Russia on behalf of Western Europe, and Israel’s war against Hamas serves London’s interests Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch © Getty Images / Peter Nicholls Israel’s military operation against Hamas is a “proxy war” being waged on behalf of the UK, British Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has claimed. In an interview with Sky News on Sunday, Badenoch commented on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent claim that the UK, France, and Canada are on “the wrong side of humanity” for trying to pressure his country to end its campaign in the Palestinian enclave. She dismissed the widely held belief that Israel’s actions in Gaza ...
Liverpool ramming not being treated as terrorism – police
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Liverpool ramming not being treated as terrorism – police

Posted by: John Phoenix Nearly 50 people were injured when a vehicle ploughed through pedestrians in the UK Emergency services transport an injured person after a car collided with pedestrians in Liverpool, England, May 26, 2025. ©  Getty Images The ramming of a car into a crowd of football fans in Liverpool on Monday, in which at least 47 people were injured, was likely not a terrorist attack, Merseyside Police have said. The car ploughed through Liverpool Football Club’s Premier League victory parade on downtown Water Street. Police said the driver, a 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area, has been detained. “It is vital that people do not speculate or spread misinformation on social media,” Temporary Deputy Chief Constable Jenny Sims to...
The UK hits peak feebleness on ‘Israel’–Gaza
Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, Politics, United Kingdom, USA, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

The UK hits peak feebleness on ‘Israel’–Gaza

Posted by: John Phoenix Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer ( ( Benjamin Cremel/Pool) ) Behind a weak joint statement on war crimes in Gaza with the UK, France, and Canada lies a long pattern of political avoidance, legal hedging, & moral evasion. By Ian Proud, Reposted from Responsible Statecraft, On May 19, the British and Canadian prime ministers and the French president issued a joint statement against Israel’s actions in Gaza. Beyond the grand gestures, the statement was weakly worded and will have no impact. It is consistent with the British government’s policy of going soft on Israel since 2023 and shows the weakness of parliamentary accountability in Britain. The statement opposed the “expansion” of Israeli military ope...
Falling life expectancy – a sign of The Times
United Kingdom

Falling life expectancy – a sign of The Times

Posted by: John Phoenix As the rising numbers of working poor and unemployed and the rapidly increasing cost of necessaries (food, clothing, housing, utilities) can no longer be contained by Britain’s dwindling social safety net, our bourgeois media are forced to acknowledge the existence of a deep cost of living crisis. How do they portray the misery of existence of the working class without pointing the figure at its root cause – capitalism? They don’t! Their tactics are threefold: reinforce the alleged failure of the only alternative system – socialism; create conflict between sections of the working class so blame is inwardly facing (racism) and expose the powerlessness of the bourgeois state to solve the contradictions of the capitalist system. Only one of their tactics is...
Letter from the frontline. A nurse’s view of the continuing sabotage of the NHS on the road to total privatisation
Health, United Kingdom

Letter from the frontline. A nurse’s view of the continuing sabotage of the NHS on the road to total privatisation

Posted by: John Phoenix The Labour Party has for many decades been seen by the British working classes as the champion and protector of our National Health Service (NHS). Whilst the Attlee government did create this entity, it was a tactic to appease working class Brits post WW2 and aimed to prevent the spread of the desire for proletarian revolution from the great Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) to our nation. Any illusions of a Labour administration benignly bestowing goodness or succour to the proletariat must surely have been smashed by the experience of the 21st century. Their abysmal record speaks for itself both on the international and domestic fronts. We can expect nothing better from the present Labour government. The NHS itself has been crippled fina...