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Plan to enslave London youth

by Daphne Liddle

LONDON Mayor Boris Johnson and Employment Minister Chris Grayling have come together and produced a nightmare plan to force school leavers in London who do not have a job to work for their meagre £56-a-week Employment Support Allowance (ESA) for 13 weeks — or lose their benefits.

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Syria: steady progress against terror

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

RENEWED French efforts to pillory Syria at the United Nations have faltered in the face of Russian opposition and American indifference. The Russian and American foreign ministers have both refused to take part in a UN Security Council special session on Syria called by France to build momentum for another UN mandate for imperialist aggression in the Middle East.

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Editorial

Syria: imperialism presses on

THE SYRIAN army may have chased the Nato-backed rebels out of Aleppo and Damascus but the imperialist hate campaign remains in top gear as the leaders of the capitalist world plan their next move in the war to topple the Assad government.

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