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Iran remains steadfast

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

AMERICAN MISSILES strike military and economic targets in Iran. Iranian rockets hit US bases in the feudal Arab Gulf. The double blockade has closed off the Persian Gulf. The Houthi north Yemeni government closes the Red Sea to Saudi shipping. And Brent crude tops $100 this week amid fears of long-term disruption to Arab oil exports to the West.

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Marching for Palestine!

by New Worker correspondent

THOUSANDS of protesters marched through central London last weekend to demand that the new Prime Minister take real action to pressure to end its genocide against the Palestinian people. Almost three years into Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, Britain’s incoming Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has been forced to apologise and admit that the government got it wrong. As we have always known – it was the people, the millions who have steadfastly stood with Palestine, who got it right.

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Editorials

Burnham makes his mark

ANDY BURNHAM starts his premiership on a high note clearing out the rubbishy ministers that revolved around Starmer and the ageing Blairite clique he relied on during his two years of misrule. He rejects neo-liberalism – the laissez-faire capitalism that gave us two global slumps and the second world war in the 20th century – and he’s even made a modest criticism of Israel over Gaza. While a package of modest reforms including a curb on bus fares throughout the country, VAT breaks for pensioners and pubs, more devolution and a national council house-building programme will boost Labour’s fortunes for the next few months.

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Enter the Binman...

Summer is known as the silly season in the press because the long parliamentary recess means they have to fill their columns with even more rubbish to make up the difference. And nothing, perhaps, could be more sillier than the epic battle between Nigel Farage and Count Binface in a run-down former sea-side resort in north Essex.

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