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Cameron out!
by Daphne Liddle
EVIDENCE is mounting that David Cameron has ceased to care whether the Tories win the coming general election. He’s done his bit for his ruling class masters and his thoughts are now drifting to a well-rewarded retirement with little work except the occasional lucrative lecture tour.
This is the only explanation for the lack of logic or consistency, from any point of view, in the plethora of proposals currently coming from the Tory leadership.
There are many reasons why he would not want to be in Number 10 in six months’ time. The global capitalist economy is gearing for another catastrophic collapse that may well be triggered by the housing bubble in south-east England bursting.
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Paris pays the price of French politics
by our Arab Affairs correspondent
WHILE there’s been blanket coverage of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in the imperialist media little is said about the perpetrators or the hidden hands behind them beyond the stock “Islamic fanatics” narrative of the bourgeois pundits.
But Syria says that recent terror attack in Paris was carried out by terrorists who previously enjoyed the backing of western and French officials — a view also endorsed in the Kremlin.
Seventeen people were killed in the French capital and its neighbourhoods in the terrorist attacks last week. Among them were ten journalists from the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, three policemen and four visitors at a kosher grocery store. All the gunmen were killed in shoot-outs with the police.
Speaking to Press TV, Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Ja’afari said the western support for terrorism in Syria has backfired on France.
“France, today, is paying the price of its unprofessional politics with regard to the Syrian crisis,” the envoy said.
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Eric Trevett remembered
IT WAS A cold and wintry night but friends and comrades braved the harsh weather on Saturday to recall the life and times of Eric Trevett, the outstanding leader of the New Communist Party, who passed away last September.
Eric was a life-long communist, internationalist and peace campaigner who, together with Sid French, led the fight against revisionism on the Surrey District of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Sid French and Eric Trevett opposed the revisionist line of the CPGB as expressed in its programme, the British Road to Socialism. For many years they fought within the party against this departure from Marxist-Leninist ideology through the CPGB’s internal structure.
But in 1977, when the revisionist leaders moved to violate their own rules and basic communist norms and expel Sid and Eric to push through a more blatantly revisionist programme, the formation of a new party became inevitable.
Eric was a founder member of the NCP in 1977 and he was elected general secretary of the Party following the death of Sid French in 1979. He held that post until his retirement from full-time party work in 1995. He was subsequently elected president and remained in post until his death last year.
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