Lead story

Russia and China defend Syria

by our Asian Affairs correspondent

RUSSIA and People’s China have again stated their opposition to intervention or regime change in Syria, scotching renewed US-led imperialist attempts to get United Nation’s sanction for another Libyan-style Nato invasion.

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Pre-emptive policing at the Olympics

by Daphne Liddle

THE METROPOLITAN Police plans to use controversial pre-emptive arrests during the period of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to prevent any possible disruption of the events.

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Recalling comrade Otto Cahn

by Theo Russell

Otto’s dedication to party work was almost total, and he was the face of the party selling the New Worker at countless meetings from one side of London to the other, almost seven days a week.

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Editorial

Stuff the jubilee

IN ANCIENT days Roman emperors were assumed to possess divine powers to justify their immense wealth and the power of life and death that they wielded over their subjects and slaves. In feudal times warrior kings were praised in song for the numbers they had killed or for the occasional acts of mercy and charity that demonstrated supposed Christian merit. These days we’ve been deluged with four days of commercialised festivities in honour of the Queen whose only claim to fame has been to remain on the throne for the past 60 years.

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