National News
Williamson sacked over leaks claim
Sputnik
PRIME Minister Theresa May dismissed Gavin Williamson from his post of Defence Secretary on 1st May over a leak of confidential discussions about Chinese firm Huawei’s involvement in the development of Britain’s future 5G network.
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May Day in London
by New Worker
correspondent
SOME 7,000 people took part in London’s traditional May Day march that began outside the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell Green and ended, as always, in a rally in Trafalgar Square. The labour day celebration began with an address by the Venezuelan ambassador on the steps of Marx House and then the march moved on through central London, headed by the Big Red Band and the May Day banner
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And in Glasgow
by New Worker
correspondent
THE May Day celebrations in Glasgow last Sunday had something of a bargain basement Grand Old Duke of York air about them.
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Going down the Tube
by New Worker
correspondent
LONDON Underground (LU) workers belonging to the transport union RMT have voted by 9—1 in favour of three days of strike action in opposition to safety-critical cuts. The strike, scheduled for 17—20 May, involves over a thousand key LU maintenance and engineering staff who are opposing the drastic cutting of train preparation and inspection schedules, which RMT warns will have a devastating impact on both service reliability and public safety
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Asbestos scandal
by New Worker
correspondent
ONE OF the first things that ought to ought to be on the desk of new Minister of Defence, Penny Mordaunt, is action on the Sea King asbestos scandal.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
Chaos Ahead
THE SCOTTISH National Party (SNP) has had its homework marked and the results are not very impressive. The official bean counter Audit Scotland has published a report: Social Security: Implementing the Devolved Powers. The report said that the new agency Social Security Scotland (SSS) had ensured that “carers and new parents successfully received payments in 2018” as though it was a great achievement not to have utterly messed up and failed to do what had been done previously by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).
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Tory Conference
The Scottish Spring party conference season trundles on its merry way. Last weekend it was the turn of the Tories, or the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party as they like to be known.
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Nats on Video
An interesting website has come to the New Worker’s attention. It is called ‘Independence Live’ and can be found at https://independencelive.net/. This provides a record of the events to stir the hearts and minds of all Scottish nationalists. It is well worth a look.
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Justice for Odessa massacre victims!
by New Worker
correspondent
NEW Communist Party leader Andy Brooks joined other anti-fascists outside the Prime Minister’s residence in London demanding justice for the victims of the Odessa massacre in May 2014.
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Praying for Trident
by New Worker correspondent
THE GREAT and the good turned up in droves last week for a bizarre Trident “national service of thanksgiving” at Westminster Abbey that recognised the “sailors’ sacrifice” in operating the American Trident nuclear missile system that Britain maintains as its so-called ‘nuclear deterrent’.
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United States targets Bolivia
by Theo Russelll
AS BOLIVIA prepares for presidential elections in October, the Trump administration has added Bolivia to its ‘regime change’ hit-list in its new drive to destroy every left or socialist government in Latin America
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International News
Blazing the way for Chinese youth
by Lu Hui Xinhua
A CENTURY has passed since the May Fourth Movement began on 4th May 1919, but its great spirit flourishes and continues to encourage the younger generation to devote their youth and strength to realising the Chinese dream of great rejuvenation
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Trump’s failed puppet show in Venezuelan
by Guillermo Alvarado Radio Havana Cuba
EVIDENTLY frustrated by the failure of its puppet in Venezuela — the self-proclaimed “president” Juan Guaidó — and by the evident lack of leadership of its ‘Man in Caracas’, the administration of Donald Trump is now blaming Cuba for its failed military coup.
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Raul Castro receives Lenin Prize
by Jorge Ruiz Miyares Radio Havana Cuba
THE first Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Raul Castro, received the Lenin Prize, awarded by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, in Havana on May Day.
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Israeli communists call for peace
CPI
A ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militias in Gaza went into effect on Monday, ending two days of intense fighting. Beginning on Saturday, Hamas and other Palestinian militias fired rockets from Gaza at communities within Israel, and Israel once again dropped bombs on the Gaza Strip. The violence has already taken a toll in human life in both Gaza and Israel: 23 Palestinians and 4 Israelis were killed as a result of the bombardments on each side of the border. Scores of others were wounded.
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Swedish Social-Democrats under fire over anti-Zionist song
Sputnik
WHILST senior party members rushed to apologise, the local chair of a youth branch of Sweden’s ruling Social Democrats Party has defended an anti-Zionist song chanted by its members during a Labour Day march. The song Long Live Palestine was produced by Palestinian-Swedish rock group Kofia in the 1970s.
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Features
five Eyes out in the open
Sputnik
Experts from the so-called five Eyes group, which was an almost entirely secret group made up of the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand sharing information with each other, are set to appear together for the first time in the UK to discuss global cyber threats. Sputnik discussed the alliance with security expert Dr Katherine Horton.
Sputnik: Experts from the so-called five Eyes intelligence agencies will appear together for the first time in the UK to discuss cyber threats. The five Eyes was once an almost entirely secret intelligence alliance in which the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand shared information. Can you give us a brief overview of who the five Eyes are?
Katherine Horton: My understanding, based on the research that I and other investigators have done, is that on the surface of it, five Eyes is an intelligence exchange. It’s an intelligence-sharing group that consists of the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Publicly, they present themselves as a group who are exchanging information on terrorists [and are] trying to keep their nations safe. Based on the victims that I’m working with however, and based on the research that investigators and I have done, they are actually a far more sinister group than they appear.
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Two Marxisms?
by Greg Godels
ML Today
GOOGLE KNOWS that I have an abiding interest in Marxism. Consequently, I receive frequent links to articles that Google’s algorithms select as popular or influential. Consistently, at the top of the list, are articles by or about the irrepressible Slavoj žižek. žižek has mastered the tricks of a public intellectual — entertaining, pompous, outrageous, calculatedly obscure and mannered.
The dishevelled pose and the beard add to a near caricature of the European professor gifting the world with big ideas embedded deeply in layers of obscurantism — a sure-fire way to appear profound. And a sure-fire way to advance one’s commercial entertainment value.
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