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Corbyn lead shakes ruling class

by Daphne Liddle

JEREMY Corbyn now has a 20 or 22 per cent lead in the Labour Party leadership race, according to which newspaper you read, and right wing Labour leaders are going frantic.

Efforts to persuade one or two of the other three contenders to drop out to allow the right wing vote to centre on just one of them have failed. All three have put their own ambition ahead of the principles they claim to uphold.

The air is thick with threats of plots to undermine Corbyn if he is elected, showing that the right wing leaders would sooner wreck Labour than see it return to its base as a party for the working class.

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First they came for the communists...

by New Worker correspondent

COMMUNISTS and militant trade unionists picketed the Ukrainian Embassy in Holland Park, London last Saturday to protest at a law passed in May by the puppet government in Kiev outlawing the communist party and banning all communist symbols and symbols of Ukraine’s Soviet history.

No legislation has been introduced to ban the use of Nazi and other fascist symbols by the fascist militias that prop up the Kiev regime. But criticism of historical Ukrainian Nazi collaborators has been banned in Ukraine.

Many comrades turned up wearing red and hammer- and-sickle and other communist emblems and badges, to make their point.

The protest was jointly organised by the Communist Party of Britain and the Solidarity with Anti-Fascist Resistance in Ukraine campaign. A similar picket was organised in Edinburgh on the same day outside the Ukrainian consulate there.

The event was entitled: “First they came for the communists...” in memory of Pastor Martin NiemÖller’s well-known poem:-

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First they came for the communists...

Editorial

Terrorism knows no borders

TERRORISM recognises no borders and the spread of terrorism cannot be eliminated by warplanes alone. This is a fact known by everyone apart from those in the West who encourage terrorists when they serve the interests of imperialism and then try to constrain them with air power when they bite the hand that feeds them.

Sectarian militias that the imperialists had armed and funded to bring down the Syrian government are now fighting each other while rival militias battle for control of Libya’s devastated cities and towns. Meanwhile the Islamic State (ISIS), a sectarian force largely of imperialist creation, which has taken over swathes of territory in Iraq including some of the oil fields, can now pursue its own sectarian agenda without the need for American money. And that agenda includes spreading its “Caliphate” into Turkey with guns and bombs.

American jets are bombing ISIS positions to drive them out of the Iraqi oil-fields they seized last year and to create “safe-havens” in Syria for their more venal Arab puppets fighting to bring down the Assad government in Damascus. Now Turkey, once a willing tool of Nato in feeding the flames of civil war in Syria, has sent its own jets into the fray against ISIS while using the opportunity to take out Kurdish militia positions in Syria.

When the reactionary, sectarian Muslim movements launched their terror campaign in Syria they were covertly armed and financed by Nato and the feudal Arab oil princes who want to bring down the popular front government in Damascus. Then ISIS, Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaida gunmen were all “freedom fighters” and part of the “Arab Spring” that we were told was heralding a new dawn throughout the Arab world.

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Terrorism knows no borders