National News
RMT to consider re-joining Labour
JOHN McDonnell, Labour’s shadow Chancellor, last week invited the transport union RMT to re-affiliate to the Labour Party because the union would bring strength to the party.
McDonnell made his proposition to Steve Hedley, deputy general secretary of the RMT, that the RMT should re-affiliate to Labour “after consulting fully and democratically with members.”
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Boys wear skirts in protest at school ban on shorts
MALE pupils at the ISCA College in Exeter in Devon took to wearing skirts to school during the recent heatwave because they had been banned from wearing shorts. They were claimin
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Anti-fascists outnumber EDL in Westminster
by New Worker correspondent
WESTMINSTER was buzzing with protests and demonstrations last Saturday: there were people demanding affordable housing and an end to demolition of council estates with the removal of low income residents to all points of the compass far from London, to make way for grand developments of luxury flats that will be bought for £millions and then stand empty as investments.
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Banker says low wages are return to pre-industrial Britain
ANDY HALDANE, the chief economist at the Bank of England, said last week that low wages in Britain, along with increasing self-employment and a drop in trade union membership represent a “return to pre-industrial Britain”.
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Thousands of patients affected by misplaced records
MORE THAN 700,000 patient notes and records that should have been passed on were found piled in a warehouse belonging to a company subcontracted to the NHS to mail them forward, according to a report last week from the National Audit Office (NAO).
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Another big pay rise for the Queen
NURSES and fire-fighters are amongst millions of public sector workers who have been systematically impoverished by a seven-year-long cap on pay rises whilst inflation has devalued their wages — forcing some to turn to foodbanks in order to eat.
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Tory Troubles
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
A CURIOUS rumpus has broken out within the Scottish Tory party that illustrates perfectly the rottenness of British politics.
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Farming News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
FOR MOST people acquiring money is more difficult than spending it. The Scottish National Party (SNP) seem to have made an exception to this rule. Millions of pounds of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) money from the European Union (EU) are sitting in the accounts of the SNP Government, who seem totally incapable of handing it out to its intended recipients.
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Justice for the Grenfell Tower victims
by New Worker correspondent
ANGER at the incompetence, greed and indifference of the ruling class towards the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire erupted on the streets of London with protests and candle-lit vigils throughout the week demanding justice for the victims of the fire that swept through the 23-storey block which housed up to 600 people.
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For peace in Korea!
by New Worker correspondent
EVERY year the anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War is marked by the start of the month of solidarity with the Korean people. Last weekend NCP leader Andy Brooks joined other comrades and friends picketing the US embassy in London to demand an end to the American occupation of south Korea and the peaceful reunification of the country that has been divided since the end of the Korean War in 1953.
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A promising future for Hong Kong
by New Worker correspondent
NCP leader Andy Brooks joined hundreds of other guests at the Chinese embassy this week at a reception called to mark the 20th Anniversary of the Return of Hong Kong to People’s China.
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International News
World Peace Council denounces US intervention in Cuba
Granma
THE World Peace Council (WPC) has reiterated its demand for an end to interventionist actions by the United States “which continually attempts to frustrate the progress of the Cuban Revolution and isolate the nation through a criminal blockade imposed for over five decades.”
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Garbage piles up as Greek sanitation workers’ strike enters 2nd week
by Maria Spiliopoulou and Valentini Anagnostopoulou
TONS of garbage are piling up in Athens and other major cities as a nationwide protest against job cuts, called by unions representing municipal sanitation workers, entered its second week on Monday.
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Deadly imperialism
by Faiquan Sells
All across the globe, the greedy hands of US imperialism are outstretched, exploiting the resources of nations (mostly in the global South), via unjustified ‘wars on terror’ or using countless US military bases in countries outside of the United States.
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The forgotten and neglected people in Africa
by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
SOME countries do not make it to the front pages of the international media because they are African and are a source of gloom and doom stories, disasters, disease and drought. Just occasionally, if there are enough pictures of malnourished children, some westerner will pose on camera and jump on the bandwagon.
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Features
Trump’s Attack on Cuba — Ignorance and Arrogance
by John Wight
DONALD Trump’s presidency has descended into farce. The undignified manner in which both he and his adversaries in Washington conduct themselves sits in sharp contrast to the dignity of those countries and governments demonised as enemies of everything the Rome of our time holds dear — namely untrammelled power, greed and domination.
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When the Nazis attacked the Soviet Union
Sputnik
The Russian Ministry of Defence has published a unique collection of archival documents on its website detailing top Soviet military commanders’ actions during in the first days of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union that began on 22nd June 1941.
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