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US leaves a shattered Afghanistan
by New Worker correspondent
THE STARS AND STRIPES finally came down in Afghanistan on Monday. The last American troops left on the final flight from Kabul airport as Taliban supporters took to the streets of the capital to celebrate by setting off fireworks and firing tracer bullets into the night sky. They leave a country shattered by 20 years of the war that followed the US-led imperialist invasion in 2001 as part of their bid for world domination in the name of a “new world order”, which was eagerly embraced by Tony Blair in Britain and a gaggle of other Western politicians who believed that with the collapse of the Soviet Union no-one could now stand in their way.
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US leaves a shattered Afghanistan
Pay Progress and Battles
by New Worker correspondent
Tuesday saw workers at computer giant IBM (the company which once said the world market for home computers could be as many as five) secure what their union, the Communication Workers Union (CWU), describes as a “top end pay deal”. They unanimously accepted a deal that gives them an across-the-board fully consolidated rise of 2.5 per cent, a victory which the union claims is to be set against an RPI inflation rate of 1.5 per cent in March and will be backdated to April to boot.
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Pay Progress and Battles
Days of hope in Stuart London
by New Worker correspondent
THIS IS the fifth novel in the Marwood & Lovett series set in Restoration London. James Marwood and Cat Lovett are children of Puritan republicans, which puts them in a difficult position under the restored Stuart monarchy. By the fourth novel however, they are both doing rather well for themselves. Marwood works for Lord Arlington,
Charles II’s intelligence chief. Meanwhile Lovett owns a thriving architecture business inherited from a late husband.
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Days of hope in Stuart London