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US backs Kiev Nazis
by our European Affairs correspondent
FIERCE fighting continues in eastern Ukraine as anti-fascist forces battle to cut off the Debaltsevo salient and take the strategic town, which has been surrounded by the partisans. Novorossiyan air defence units have downed two Ukrainian war-planes and one helicopter gunship and Nato-backed puppet regime forces are continuing to pound Donetsk and Novorossiyan positions along the front.
The Novorossiyan freedom fighters have prevented puppet regime reinforcements reaching Debaltsevo through their artillery “fire control” over the only road into the town. But they have allowed rear support units and civilians to leave the town, which is held by some 7,000 Ukrainian soldiers and fascist militiamen that the Novorossiyans call the “Naziguard”.
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Londoners demand homes
by New Worker correspondent
HOUSANDS of Londoners gathered last Saturday — half in Shoreditch east London and the other half at the Elephant and Castle in south London — in spite of freezing wind, rain and sleet to demand affordable homes for Londoners.
“Cap rents, not benefits!” “Social housing not social cleansing!” and “Housing is a human right!” were among the slogans shouted as local residents, trade unionists and a wide spectrum of campaigning groups marched carrying hundreds of colourful banners and placards.
The two marches met, with a loud cheer, at the south end of Tower Bridge and turned long Tooley Street a few yards to surround City Hall, the headquarters of the Greater London Assembly and Tory London Mayor Boris Johnson.
As the marchers approached the glass structure and the wind from the river added another dimension of cold to the air as it was filled with ever louder chanting of “Boris Out! Boris Out!”
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