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Palestinian success but cease-fire is on a knife-edge

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

AS RELIEF convoys enter the Gaza Strip, Palestinians are working to restore services in the besieged Palestinian enclave that defied 11 days of terror bombing which ended only after the Israelis agreed to curb Zionist settler violence in Jerusalem.

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On the buses

by New Worker correspondent

Last week we reported that 4,000 drivers employed by Metroline in London had voted by 95 per cent in favour of strike action over plans to introduce ‘remote sign-on’, a system whereby drivers do not report to a depot but meet a bus along a route, such as at a bus stop.

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Editorial

The tail does not wag the dog

MILLIONS OF PEOPLE in the imperialist heartlands have demonstrated in solidarity with the Palestinian people. In response, the Biden administration is trying to breathe new life into the ‘two-state’ solution to appease their feudal Arab allies who fear the angry crowds on the Arab street that could easily turn on them if nothing is done to end the crisis.

The ‘two state’ solution is, in fact, a watered-down version of the original UN 1947 Palestine partition plan, which divided the British colony into rival Jewish and Arab states with an ‘international’ zone for Jerusalem.

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