The New Worker
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 12th September 2014
Lead story
‘Yes’ will mean gains for Scotland
by Daphne Liddle
IT IS PLAIN that the leaders of western imperialism are panicking at the prospect of Scotland voting in favour of full independence next Thursday and that in itself should encourage the Yes vote.
The YES campaign enjoyed a small surge in opinion polls last week as hitherto “don’t-knows” began to make up their minds, mostly in favour of a Yes vote.
This sparked a decision by the leaders of all three of the major parties at Westminster to go to Scotland for a final boost to the No campaign they have all backed. But it looks too much like desperation and is likely to prove counter-productive.
It is arguable that the best asset the No campaign has is Alex Salmond, the leader of the Scottish National Party. He and the party he leads are basically pro-business Tories who would do little to halt privatisation and the general swing to the right that has dogged Westminster since Thatcher came to power in 1979.
Read the full story here >> [ ‘Yes’ will mean gains for Scotland ]Anti-fascist rebels hold fast
by our European Affairs correspondent
The truce between the Ukrainian puppet regime and the anti-fascist rebels in the east appears to be holding despite a weekend of sporadic clashes around Donetsk airport and on the outskirts of Mariupol.
Representatives of the Kiev regime and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics reached a range of agreements including a ceasefire at talks in the Belarusian capital of Minsk last week following earlier talks between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders.
The Minsk protocol was signed on 5th September as a result of a meeting of the trilateral contact group on joint steps aimed at the implementation of the peace plan drawn up by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. It calls for a stand-still ceasefire, an “all-for-all” exchange of prisoners-of-war, a general amnesty for all combatants and “special status” for the rebel republics that have formed the Novorossiya Union and the “decentralisation of power” in Ukraine.
Read the full story here >> [ Anti-fascist rebels hold fast ]Editorial
Imperialism on the defensive
THE IMPERIALISTS have suffered a number of setbacks in recent weeks. The Israelis have, once again, failed to crush the Palestinian resistance and the Kiev puppet regime has been forced to accept a truce it didn’t want after suffering a series of defeats at the hands of the anti-fascist militias in eastern Ukraine.
Anglo-American and Franco-German imperialism expected a short, sharp victory when they gave the go-ahead to Israel to unleash the Zionist war-machine against the Palestinian Hamas government in the Gaza Strip. They shed crocodile tears when millions took to the streets across the world in rage at the Israelis who were killing and maiming thousands of Palestinian civilians in terror air and missile attacks on Gaza.
They did nothing to end the bloodshed until it became perfectly clear that the resistance could not be broken and that Israel, which did not escape unscathed, could no longer sustain a protracted campaign.
Read the full story here >> [ Imperialism on the defensive ]In Memoriam Eric Trevett 1931-2014
