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Lame duck Dave

by Daphne Liddle

WHEN DAVID Cameron narrowly won an overall majority the general election a year ago he was delighted to be free to wage his war of attrition against the working class without being hampered by coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

But that narrow majority has turned into a poisoned chalice, especially since the Labour opposition now has a leader who prepared to fight, and Cameron has notched up a total of 24 retreats and U-turns on policies he was trying to push through Parliament.

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Lame duck Dave

Soviet Victory Day

by New Worker correspondent

HUNDREDS of people — including many from London’s Russian community — gathered in the Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park in south London on Monday to mark the 71st anniversary of the Red Army victory over the Nazi hordes that had invaded their country.

The Soviet Union lost around 27 million soldiers and citizens in that terrible conflict which ended with the capture of the German Reichstag in Berlin by Red Army troops.

Many of those present at the ceremony held up pictures of their relatives who had died in the conflict.

And a group of veterans from the Red Army and Red Navy joined British veterans of the conflict in a place of honour at the ceremony.

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Soviet Victory Day

Editorial

Birth of an activist army

CORBYN’S Labour did very well in the local elections — although not so well in Scotland — but you would not think so from most of the media. The major newspapers, their columnists, the TV channels and the social media websites had all prepared to gloat over Labour facing huge losses. When that did not happen they went ahead with their prepared scripts only slightly adjusted to reality and reported significant gains as a disaster for Labour.

The Guardian, New Statesman and Huffington Post — all apparently “left-of-centre” came out with some of the worst journalism ever written. These are the publications that at first sight seem to be standing up for the victims of cuts, the deprived, the disabled, the unemployed and downtrodden. But when such people actually stand up and start fighting for themselves they are horrified.

The poor and oppressed are supposed to stay cringing in their hovels so that the bountiful middle classes can say beautiful, sad things about them and throw them the odd item of cast-off clothing and drop a packet of economy biscuits in the food-bank collecting bin in their local supermarket, and the poor are supposed to be grateful — and humble.

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Birth of an activist army