The New Worker

The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain

Week commencing 2nd August 2013

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Lead story

Guilty of telling THE TRUTH

by our American Affairs correspondent

BRADLEY Manning, the US Army whistleblower who exposed thousands of American war crimes after revealing military documents to Wikileaks, has been cleared of “aiding the enemy” at his court-martial in Fort Meade, Maryland.

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Palestine talks begin in Washington

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

WASHINGTON’S spin merchants are going into top gear to puff up the latest imperialist effort to resolve the Palestinian problem. Barack Obama has met the Israeli and Palestinian representatives in Washington and US Secretary of State John Kerry says that the negotiators will aim to reach a “final status” agreement over the next nine months to end their long conflict and that “all issues” will be on the table.

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Editorial

Osborne is blowing bubbles

CHANCELLOR George Osborne last week claimed that the economy in Britain is on the road to recovery — on the strength of growth of just 0.6 per cent in the last quarter. Needless to say it is only the elite one per cent of wealthiest people who have had any sniff of this change of the tide.

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