National News
Brexiteers warn May of EU deal limits
Sputnik
EAGER Brexit supporters set a limit for the Prime Minister (PM) to keep Britain within European Union (EU) customs arrangements only until 2022, as Brexit negotiations with the economic bloc enter the final stages.
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May seeks Labour back-bench support for Brexit plan
SENIOR Conservative Party members have reportedly been in private contact with at least 15 opposition MPs, urging that it was in the “national interest” at the moment to support the Prime Minister.
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Settling scores in Glasgow
by New Worker correspondent
OVER 8,000 council workers will be going on strike over the failure of Glasgow City Council to settle outstanding settlements for historic
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UNITE SAYS that fixed targets for carbon emissions for new cars without a plan for managing the transition from combustion engines to alternatively fuelled vehicles is putting at least 291,000 jobs in the UK and European car industry at risk by 2030.
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Shipwrecked?
by New Worker correspondent
UNITE HAS deplored the fact that Johnny Foreigner is building too many ships for the Queen’s Navy. The union has criticised the government for its “continual lack of commitment to building ships for the Royal Navy”, which threatens “to shipwreck” the future of shipyards in both Belfast and Appledore in Devon.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
MORE THAN three years ago, in May 2015, 31-year-old Sheku Bayoh, originally from Sierra Leone, died after being restrained by six uniformed police outside his home in Kirkcaldy. This occurred after police had received reports of a man behaving erratically and brandishing a knife in the street. CCTV evidence did not show that he was not carrying a weapon when he was stopped but an eight-inch knife was found shortly afterwards.
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Northern Gay Pride
A Gay Pride march took place last Saturday in Inverness, the first one for 15 yeats, with about 3,000 people attending
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Out of the Box
Tavish Scott, Liberal Democrat MSP for the Shetland Islands, has won a great victory for his constituents. His great achievement was to bring into force a law outlawing the practice of “boxing the islands”
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Forty-five years of progress
by New Worker correspondent
NCP leader Andy Brooks joined diplomats, businessmen and solidarity workers at a celebration to mark the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Britain and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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Londoners stood up to Mosley
by New Worker correspondent
COMRADES from Britain, Greece, Italy and Israel gathered at the Cable Street memorial in Shadwell on Saturday to remember that epic day in 1936 when Sir Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts were stopped in their tracks on 4th October 1936. Communists played a major part in the mobilisation
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UberEat workers out in Bristol!
by New Worker correspondent
HUNDREDS of UberEat strikers and supporters rallied outside Bristol’s premier McDonalds outlet in the Horsefair last week.
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REVIEW Marxist views from India
by Robin McGregor
Revolutionary Democracy Vol XXIII,
No 2. April 2018.
£5.00 + £1.00 p&p from NCP Lit: PO Box 73, London SW11 2PQ.
THE ARRIVAL of this twice yearly Indian journal is always to be welcomed; the latest issue is no exception. The well-established format of articles on recent and contemporary India, materials from parties of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (ICMLPO), and translations of Soviet archival material are continued, along with reports on the centenary celebrations of the October Revolution.
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TV REVIEW Dr Who?
by New Worker TV Correspondent
GOOD SCIENCE fiction is not actually about the future but about the present. This is perhaps the reason for the success of Dr Who, which like much of the world was at its best in the 1960s and 1970s.
Dr Who has seen many great adventures that had a relevance to contemporary events. In the 1974 adventure, the Monster of Peladon, the Doctor, played by John Pertwee, arrives on a planet engulfed in a miners’ strike. The 1973 series Carnival of Monsters raised contemporary fears of conspiracies within the state apparatus and also the issue of scapegoating of migrants.
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International News
South Koreans press for peace treaty
Workers World (US)
THE TRUMP administration continues to evade the biggest question looming over Korean—US relations: When will Washington sign a peace treaty to end the Korean War?
Any talk of normalisation of relations between the USA and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is meaningless when Washington won’t even agree to discuss an end to a war that killed millions of Koreans and has lasted since 1950, despite an armistice agreement signed 65 years ago
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Trump’s wealth comes from fraud
Radio Havana Cuba
IN A MAJOR exposÉ, the New York Times has revealed that US President Donald Trump inherited his family’s wealth through tax dodges and outright fraud, receiving at least $413 million in inflation-adjusted dollars from his father’s real estate empire.
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Bombing Serbs to “save” them
Sputnik
NATO carried out a 78-day campaign of airstrikes against Yugoslavia in 1999 after accusing Belgrade of committing war crimes in Kosovo. The strikes left as many as 5,700 civilians dead and contaminated part of the region with depleted uranium, leading to a spike in juvenile
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Features
Don’t mention WMD! Ex-spy chief regrets Blair/Putin meeting
Sputnik
RICHARD DEARLOVE, the controversial the former chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) commonly known as MI6, has suggested Britain’s overseas spying agency has “significant regret” over sanctioning Prime Minister Tony Blair’s visit to Russia to meet with Vladimir Putin. Any remorse over far more damaging events during his tenure was, however, unforthcoming.
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US: Kavanaugh nomination exposes ruling-class crisis
Workers World (US)
THE 27th September Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about the current nominee to the US Supreme Court could not have been more polarised. Calm, deliberate, earnest, cooperative, though admittedly terrified, Dr Christine Blasey Ford testified in the morning. In contrast, during the afternoon, there was high drama as Judge Brett M Kavanaugh alternated between entitled ‘angry-white-man’ shouting about sectarian victimisation — “revenge on behalf of the Clintons” — and tearfully pouting, obviously fearful of losing his upper-class power.
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