National News
Khan calls for ban on petrol and diesel cars
THE MAYOR of London, Sadiq Khan, has joined city leaders from England and Wales to call on the government to ban the sale of new diesel and petrol cars and vans by 2030.
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Paternity Pay
by New Worker correspondent
LAST SUNDAY was Father’s Day, an important festival developed by the greeting card industry to help cover the gap between Easter and Christmas and an excuse by the restaurant trade to raise their prices for the day.
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Workers Notes
Stormy Brexit waters still ahead for May
Xinhua
THERESA MAY is facing the threat of a new backbench revolt in the latest twist to the Brexit saga.
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Poundworld sinks
by New Worker correspondent
THE EVER-POPULAR discount retailer Poundworld went into administration on Monday 11th June putting 5,100 jobs at risk .
Poundworld was founded in 1974 and had a total of 335 stores that. At one time, attracted up to two million customers. Poundworld was extremely popular with low income workers.
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Labour retain Lewisham East
by New Worker correspondent
LABOUR candidate Janet Daby won the Lewisham East by-election on the 14th June. The by-election was due to the resignation of right wing Blairite MP Heidi Alexander, who quit to take up a lucrative transport post in Sadiq Khan’s Greater London administration.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
Brexit Antics
JUST AFTER last week’s New Worker was put to bed the Scottish nationalist contingent at Westminster staged a spontaneous walk out from the House of Commons at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQ) from where they stomped off out to be recorded picking their noses by the TV cameras on nearby College Green.
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Freedom of Information
No less a figure than the Scottish Information Commissioner Darren fitzhenry has denounced the Scottish Government for operating a secret twin-track freedom of information (FoI) policy
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Glasgow School of Art fires:The Truth
Catholic Truth, the blog of the traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X in Scotland, has elevated an interesting theory about the cause of the two fires at the Glasgow School of Art that comes from a ‘Protestant gentleman who lives in Ayr’.
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Racist rage in Whitehall
by New Worker correspondent
POLICE arrested five fascists in central London on Saturday after violence broke out during a protest against the jailing of former English Defence League (EDL ) leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon who calls himself ‘Tommy Robinson’ in public. Robinson was jailed last month after he used social media to broadcast details of a trial that was subject to blanket reporting restrictions. Reporting restrictions are imposed on all court proceedings in Britain and are intended to avoid media reports that could
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Bringing Inner Mongolian music to Britain
Xinhua
WITH MUSIC flowing from head-horse fiddles, a traditional Mongolian bowed stringed instrument, the neighing of thousands of horses on vast grassland in Inner Mongolia, northern China, seems just before the British audience.
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Solo — A Star Wars Story
by New Worker Cinema Correspondent
THE STAR WARS franchise is over forty years old; to the extent its terminology has come into every day usage. For instance, a recent conference organised by the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign has been titled The Empire Strikes Back in Latin America; an obvious reference to episode six of the series
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International News
Chairman Kim praises ‘Unity’ with China in Beijing
Sputnik
NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reaffirmed his country’s “friendship, unity and cooperation” with China during a visit to Beijing, already the third this year.
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US resuming funding for White Helmets
Sputnik
WASHINGTON announced the resumption of $6.6 million in funding for the ‘White Helmets’ this week in spite of evidence from Damascus and Moscow that the group has links to al-Qaeda.
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Iran calls for action against Israeli nukes
Radio Havana Cuba
IRAN’S ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has told the IAEA Board of Governors in Vienna that Israel’s nuclear programme poses a threat to international peace and security. Speaking at the board’s quarterly meeting last week, Reza Najafi said that Israel’s nuclear capabilities should be put on the IAEA’s agenda as a real threat to regional and international peace and security.
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Former Israeli minister charged with spying for Iran
Sputnik
ISRAELI former minister of energy and infrastructure, Gonen Segev, has been arrested on suspicion of espionage activities on behalf of Iranian intelligence the Israeli police said on Monday.
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Features
Football Against Imperialism
What Celtic FC’s solidarity with Palestine could teach the world
Telesur
AS THE 2018 World Cup frenzy starts to take over the news cycle, it is essential that we highlight examples of how the sport has brought people together, such as is the case of Celtic FC and Palestine. Celtic Football Club, a club based in Glasgow, Scotland, has consistently shown solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.
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From G7 to Shanghai summit US swagger falls flat
Workers World (US)
THE RESPONSE to President Donald Trump’s arrogant withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and wild threats of tariffs on US allies has exposed declining American influence on a global scale.
This became all too obvious at the gathering in Quebec, Canada, of the G7 summit of the seven major imperialist powers — United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan. With the exception of Japan, the other six countries are also leading members of the US-commanded NATO military alliance.
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The future of socialism
by Andy Brooks
NO ONE would disagree with Chinese President and Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping who said: “Marxism has not only profoundly changed the world, but also China”.
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