National News
Hunt moves
against Johnson
by Svetlana Ekimenko
AS WESTMINSTER waits for the full report from Sue Gray into the so-called ‘Partygate’ row, expected to be so incriminatory that Boris Johnson might be forced to resign, a new potential challenger to lead the Conservative Party is reported to be waiting in the wings.
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USDAW at Blackpool
by New Worker correspondent
THE Bank Holiday weekend saw the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) head off to Blackpool for its 75th annual conference.
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Bloomsbury battle
by New Worker correspondent
THIRTY low-paid workers at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) held a protest outside the Bloomsbury site to demand decent pay last Thursday. The response of the School, however, was to suspend four of the protestors who entered the building to deliver a letter about their grievances, a move which saw LSHTM call the police.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
SINCE 1801 Britain has held a decennial Census that records the numbers and distribution of the nation’s population. Only in 1941 was it cancelled, for obvious reasons. Last year it was held as usual in England, Wales and Northern Ireland with an uptake of 97 per cent.
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May Day in London…
by New Worker correspondent
LONDON May Day returned to the street with its traditional March and Rally; and NCP leader Andy Brooks joined London comrades outside the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell Green on Sunday for the march and rally in Trafalgar Square.
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…And in Southampton
by New Worker Correspondent
MAY DAY was marked in Southampton with a rally at the Bargate in the old town, with speakers from local unions and Palestine Solidarity
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International News
Never forget Victory Day!
Statement by Borotba (Struggle), a revolutionary Marxist movement banned in Ukraine since 2014
THE 9th May marks the 77th anniversary of the Day of Victory over Nazi Germany.
Almost a century separates us from those events. Right now however, we see what a colossal impact they continue to have on the entire world community.
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NO to Fascism!
NO to NATO!
Odessa Solidarity Campaign (USA)
NOW more than ever, in light of the escalating military and political confrontation between Western powers and the Russian Federation and its allies, we must remember what has led to the current crisis
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New May Day protests against Macron
Radio Havana Cuba
TENS OF thousands of people filled the streets across France to hold May Day protests, demanding social justice and salary increases, in the first test for newly re-elected President Emmanuel Macron, who is also being pushed to scrap his plan to raise the retirement age.
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Hamas leader warns of new battle ahead
Radio Havana Cuba
THE LEADER of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says all Gaza-based resistance groups should be fully prepared because the “big battle” for al-Aqsa Mosque will begin after the holy month of Ramadan if Israel does not cease its aggression at the mosque.
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Russia is not threatening nuclear war
Sputnik
RUSSIA is not threatening anyone with nuclear war, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the Al Arabiya TV channel in an interview last week. The Russian foreign minister has called on all the five big nuclear powers to commit to ruling out nuclear war.
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Features
This is not Russia’s war
by Gyula Thürmer, President of the Hungarian Workers’ Party
WE HAVE TO SEE clearly that this is not Russia’s and Ukraine’s war.
This is the USA’s war against Russia. This is the USA’s war against the People’s Republic of China. This is the war of neo-liberalism for world domination.
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Charlie Chaplin: Revisiting
The Great Dictator
by Chauncey K Robinson
THE 16TH APRIL marks what would have been the 133rd birthday of one of the most iconic entertainers in modern history, Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin’s career spanned more than 75 years, from his childhood in the London of the Victorian era to the late 1970s.
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REVIEW: Fooling the Germans
by Ben Soton
Operation Mincemeat (12A). Warner Bros Pictures (2021). Written by Michelle Ashford, based on the book by Ben Macintyre. Director: John Madden. Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Rufus Wright, Johnny Flynn, Penelope Wilton, Colin Firth, Kelly Macdonald, Mark Gatiss. 128mins.
OPERATION MINCEMEAT is an otherwise outstanding Second World War espionage film spoilt by a ridiculous anti-communist sub-plot. It’s actually a remake of the 1956 film The Man Who Never Was and tells the story of the ‘Twenty Committee’, an elite group of counter-intelligence operatives tasked with fooling the Germans that the invasion of Southern Europe will take place in Greece rather than Sicily.
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