National News
Starmer faces calls to resign over ‘Beergate’
by Oleg Burunov
SIR KEIR Starmer faces calls to resign after a leaked memo challenged his version of the ‘Beergate’ story.
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Town Hall battles
by New Worker correspondent
NOW THAT the ballot boxes have been put away until next time, the newly elected councillors will find that they have a lot of disgruntled workers to contend with.
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Back in Hackney
by New Worker correspondent
ONE STRIKE that has taken place is in the east London borough of Hackney, where 300 council employees took two blocs of strike in late April and last week in protest at a miserable pay offer of 1.75 per cent. The dispute involved workers in waste collection, council house repairs, and transport passenger services for special needs children.
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Action in Norwich
by New Worker correspondent
ANOTHER council battle is looming in Norwich. Around 200 workers, including grave diggers, housing maintenance staff, street cleaners and park gardeners at the council owned arms-length company Norwich City Services Ltd (NCSL), have voted to turn down a 4.2 per cent offer and are threatening strike action to secure their aim of a 10 per cent rise.
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An epic battle
by New Worker correspondent
IN THE West Midlands, Unite, GMB and Unison members employed by Sandwell Leisure Trust held a one-day strike in a long-running pay dispute.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
THE VOTES have all been counted and another batch of councillors elected for the next five years, but in some important respects the results are still incomplete as we do not know who will actually be controlling most of Scotland’s councils.
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Down with the BBC!
by New Worker correspondent
NCP LEADER Andy Brooks joined other Korean solidarity campaigners outside BBC headquarters in London last weekend to protest at the ongoing bias of the state-owned broadcaster.
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A Chinese element in Shakespeare’s home town
by Zhong Wenxing and Liang Jun
CHINESE cultural elements commemorating Tang Xianzu, a playwright known as ‘The Shakespeare of Asia’, offer an ‘international’ character to Stratford-upon-Avon, the home-town of William Shakespeare.
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Victory Day in London
by New Worker correspondent
MILLIONS of Russians took to the streets on Monday to celebrate Victory Day and the surrender of the Third Reich on 9th May 1945.
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International News
Russophobia: A deep-seated hatred
Sputnik
THE DEFAMATION of Russia is not just a strategic need, but it is deeply grounded in the farthest corner of the Western soul, says Moscow’s Ambassador to Canada Oleg Stepanov.
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Donbas: Fighting to Win
by Ekaterina Blinova
FRANÇOIS Mauld d’Aymée, a classical tenor and graduate of the Saint-Cyr Military Academy, founded in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte, did not expect that his fate would be intertwined with that of Donbas for many years.
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Reading Hemingway with Xi Jinping
by Liu Ning, Yuan Meng, Su Yingxiang, Xu Xiangli and Zhang Wenj
UNDER Ernest Hemingway’s pen, the novella The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of an aging fisherman who engages in an epic battle to catch a giant marlin.
With simple yet powerful words, the American writer’s book struck a chord with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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“Credible information” on torture of Russian PoWs
by Ilya Tsukanov
THE United Nations has “credible” evidence on the torture of Russian military personnel by Ukrainian forces says Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine chief Matilda Bogner.
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Germany enters the fray
by Sevim Dagdelen
Deputy leader of Die Linke (The Left Party) in the German parliament
ON 28th April 2022 the Bundestag, the German parliament, decided that Germany would de facto enter into war with Russia. With a motion, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Social Democrats (SDP), Free Democrats (FDP) and Greens constituted themselves as a war coalition.
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Features
Remember the Maine! US war lies
by Danny O’Brien
THE REPUTATION of the USA and its unrelenting military must precede any claim these entities make about ‘truth’.
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