National News
Bleak forecast of looming recession
by Svetlana Ekimenko
ANDREW BAILEY, the Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), has been accused of talking down Britain’s prospects and “adding to a sense of panic” after the Monetary Policy Committee’s (MPC) dire economic forecast for the country, the Daily Mail reported.
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Stand by Democratic Korea!
by New Worker correspondent
NCP LEADER Andy Brooks joined Korean solidarity activists outside the new US embassy in Nine Elms on Saturday to demand an end to US imperialism’s occupation of south Korea. Called by the Korean Friendship Association, the protest called for an end to the imperialist sanctions regime against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and called for a halt to the annual US war-games in south Korea.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
ALTHOUGH formal records are not kept it is likely that the NHS Grampian Health Board has achieved an unenviable record in the Bed Blocking stakes. Bed blocking is the enforced stay in hospital due to a lack of care home places or social care packages, once hospital treatment is complete. It is not only bad for the patient, but delays operations and other treatments for others
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Toothless in Southampton
by New Worker correspondent
THE COLLAPSE in NHS dental care in England has led to the formation of numerous campaign groups across the country. Under the banner of ‘Toothless in England’ a new group, Toothless in Southampton, was established in the city last week.
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International News
Roger Waters slams ‘war criminal’ Biden
by Svetlana Ekimenko
PINK FLOYD co-founder Roger Waters is touring the USA with his solo concert and multimedia installation This Is Not a Drill. The legendary artist, who has taken a principled stand regarding the US–NATO involvement in the Ukraine conflict, had earlier warned fans that if they can’t stand his politics, they could just as well “fuck off to the bar.”
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One step away from Hell
by Guillermo Alvarado
THE Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, says that “humanity is one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation” due to the current crises and the dissemination of atomic arsenals all over the planet.
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Russia summons Security Council over nuclear emergency
by our Eastern European Affairs correspondent
RUSSIA HAS summoned an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the situation at Ukraine’s Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which has been the subject of regular Ukrainian artillery barrages.
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Standing with the Donbas in Dublin
by New Worker correspondent
THE PLIGHT of the people of the Donbas was highlighted in the Irish capital last Saturday when people took to the streets of Dublin to show support for the anti-fascist resistance in Ukraine.
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FBI raid Trump’s home
by Ed Newman
FORMER US President Donald Trump says the FBI has searched his Palm Beach home in Florida and had broken open a safe.
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Lula maintains lead in polls
Radio Havana Cuba
WORKERS’ PARTY (PT) candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva maintains the lead over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro ahead of Brazil’s presidential elections, according to a poll published Monday.
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Features
The fight against racism in science
by Prabir Purkayastha
IN July the world celebrated the 200 anniversary of Gregor Mendel’s birth, widely accepted as the father of genetics. His experiments with peas, published in 1866 as Experiments in Plant Hybridisation, identified dominant and recessive traits and how recessive traits would re-appear in future generations and in what proportion. Nevertheless, it was to lie unacknowledged and ignored until three other biologists replicated his work in 1900.
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The hopes of Hiroshima
Sputnik
Hiroshima survivor Toshiko Tanaka, who is 83, says she wants her generation to be the last to suffer through the type of experience wrought by a nuclear weapon.
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Down with American imperialism! - Long live workers’ solidarity and a multi-polar world!
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
THE SECOND part of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century were characterised by unrestrained US expansion and a policy of inciting local wars, inspiring “colour revolutions” and unrestrained exploitation of people and resources.
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Book Review: Princes of Persia
by Ben Soton
Persians: The Age of The Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones. Hardback: Wildfire: London, 2022; 448pp; rrp £25.99.
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