Lead story

Scotland’s choice

by Daphne Liddle

SCOTLAND’S First Minister, Alex Salmond, has published the White Paper mapping out Scotland’s path to independence, which the Scottish people will vote on in a referendum next September.

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The Labour Representation Committee in debate

by New Worker correspondent

LONDON’S Conway Hall was once again the venue of the tenth annual conference of the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) for left-wing Labour Party members and a few others that include delegates from the New Communist Party which affiliated to the LRC in February 2005.

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Editorial

Iran agreement — keep the peace momentum going

THE SIX nations involved in the Geneva negotiations over the future of Iran’s nuclear power programme last Sunday at four o’clock in the morning finally reached a deal acceptable to both Iran and the United States. Both sides had to move a long way from their original positions but the deal has generally been hailed as a victory for peaceful negotiation over the prospect of yet another bloody imperialist war against the people of the Middle East.

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