National News
Bad news on the doorstep
by Svetlana Ekimenko
THE UK faces a “very big income shock” amidst “apocalyptic” global food-price rises, warns the Bank of England.
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Some good news
by New Worker correspondent
WHILE there are no signs that the revolution is around the corner, there have recently been some small victories for workers.
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Oh yes it is!
by New Worker correspondent
IT WAS in the courts, rather than on the picket line, that actor’s union Equity won applause for winning an important legal battle in the struggle for holiday pay in a business noted for irregular employment.
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High profits = low Pay
by New Worker correspondent
BRITISH Telecom have announced a nine per cent rise in annual profits to nearly £2 billion. It has been made clear, however, that none of this is going to the workers, despite the fact that shareholders will be benefitting from the restoration of a full year dividend of 7.7p per share with a plan to increase the dividend next year.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
ANGLO-AMERICAN relations have somewhat soured over the post-Brexit row over northern Ireland. But not so with Scotland.
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A Chinese element in Shakespeare’s home town
International News
Killing the truth
by Guillermo Alvarado
ANGER is sweeping the world following the brutal murder of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot by the Zionist Israeli army despite wearing all the identification that accredited her as a member of the press.
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Imperialist propaganda and the Ukraine war
by G Dunkel
WHEN Jill Biden met Olena Zelenska, the spouse of the Ukrainian president, in Uzhhorod, a small city in western Ukraine a few miles from Slovakia, on Mother’s Day, she said to the world that “the people of the United States stand with the people of Ukraine”. But China and India, each with a population of around 1.4 billion people, abstained on the UN vote condemning Russia.
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From war to war
by Guillermo Alvarado
THE CONTROVERSIAL intellectual Arthur Koestler, born in Hungary and naturalised British, once stated that: “The most persistent sound that reverberates throughout the history of man is the beating of war drums,” a phrase which reflects the irrationality of the only ‘rational’ animals.
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World denounces murder of Arab journalist
Radio Havana Cuba
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WORLD LEADERS have condemned the murder of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and called for an independent and transparent investigation into the death of the journalist who was shot dead by Israeli forces on 11th May whilst reporting for Al Jazeera in Jenin in the occupied West Bank
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Unstoppable hatred
Radio Havana Cuba
IN THE ‘land of the free’ there have been at least 10 deaths and more than 20 others wounded in firearms attacks in recent days. This is a plague that the ‘democratic’ USA suffers every year as hundreds of thousands of families mourn their loss without the government fulfilling its obligation to protect the people.
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A better
life for everyone
Xinhua
CHINA’S phenomenal economic transformation over the last decade features a substantial improvement in people’s well-being, guided by a people-centred philosophy that aims to ensure development benefits all.
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Features
Serving two masters: Mussolini’s moviemaker and the Reds
by Ed Rampell
LENIN proclaimed: “For us, the cinema is the most important of the arts.” The leader of the Russian Revolution said this around 1922, the year Benito Mussolini’s Blackshirts rose to power in Italy, and later decreed: “Film work facilitates fascist penetration.” Both polarities of left and right recognised the central role motion pictures could play in propaganda, in reaching the masses with their messages and agitating them to take action.
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Ukraine: bigwigs, bucks & biolabs
by Ekaterina Blinova
WHILST Joe Biden is insisting that his major objectives are to exhaust Russia, protect Ukraine’s democracy and strengthen US national security, American conservative observers are growing increasingly sceptical. According to them, the $40 billion package is unlikely to stop Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from targeting opposition journalists, whilst Biden’s escalation of the conflict may lead to an all-out conflict between the USA and Russia.
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