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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