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STUDENTS DEFY POLICE VIOLENCE
by Caroline Colebrooke
STUDENT protest marches in London last Thursday ended in scenes of shocking police violence after the Commons vote to raise the maximum limit of university tuition fees to £9,000-a-year.
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EU ready to recognise Palestine state
by our Arab Affairs correspondent
THE EUROPEAN Union is now prepared to recognise a Palestinian state in the wake of a groundswell of international support for the Palestinians. In a statement issued on Monday, the EU Foreign Affairs Council said it “reiterates its readiness, when appropriate, to recognise a Palestinian state” and that such a state should be “contiguous and viable”.
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What are communists for?
by Daphne Liddle
THE SIGHT of thousands of angry students on the march through towns and cities throughout England has cheered the older generation of campaigners no end. And so has the emergence of unknown numbers of mostly anonymous cyber warriors inflicting real damage on the powers of western imperialism and oppression through massive revelations of Wikileaks.
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