National News
Port workers strike over pay
by Svetlana Ekimenko
ABOUT 1,900 dock workers at the UK’s largest container port have started an eight-day strike after receiving a pay offer “significantly below” the rate of inflation from the company that operates Felixstowe.
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Defend the railways
by New Worker correspondent
FROM THE START of the early shift on Tuesday widespread protest actions took place at many railway stations across England and Wales. These were organised by transport unions RMT and TSSA, who were supported by the campaign group ‘We Own It’. The actions were to oppose government plans to close nearly 1,000 ticket offices.
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At the bar
by New Worker correspondent
AFTER TAKING intermittent strike action since the beginning of July, another group of workers are now stepping up to an all-out strike.
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All right for some…
by New Worker correspondent
ALTHOUGH MANY of the struggles recorded in these pages involve low-paid workers hoping to offset high levels of inflation and struggles against redundancies, it is good to record that one group of workers are doing very well indeed. These are British bosses.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
THE EDINBURGH festivals are drawing towards a close surrounded by a different sort of controversy than that which usually surrounds them. Some citizens say the various events make the city uninhabitable in August due to the massive crowds and the only slightly smaller number of performers it attracts.
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Enough is Enough!
by New Worker correspondent
MICK LYNCH got a rousing welcome at the ‘Enough Is Enough’ rally at the Clapham Grand in Battersea, south London last week. The venerable Grand, a historic venue outside Clapham Junction station that opened as a music hall in 1900, was once able to take a 3,000-strong audience. Later conversions to a cinema and a bingo hall as well as modern health and safety regulations have cut that capacity by almost two-thirds. But the now restored theatre was packed to the gills for the London launch of the campaign that seeks to lead the fight-back against cost-of-living hikes not seen for a generation
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International News
A very Vietnamese pastime
by Seán Nolan
THE WORD ‘SIESTA’ is known around the world as a byword for a lunchtime nap, conjuring up thoughts of hot, sleepy afternoons hiding from the sun.
In Việtnam, it’s ngủ trưa, and if you haven’t noticed (and I bet you have), it’s a big deal here.
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Community welfare in Cuba
by María Josefina Arce
THERE ARE many community projects that in recent years have been proliferating throughout Cuba, to provide a different perspective of life to the inhabitants of the various communities, as well as with creativity and commitment to seek solutions to everyday problems.
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Philadelphia: smoking ban sabotages drugs rehab
by Princess Harmony
WHAT WOULD you do, if you were an addict living with the constant agony of addiction? What would you do, if you were an incarcerated addict whose only chance for freedom – from substances and from prisons/jails – is getting rehab. What would you do, if you genuinely wanted recovery?
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Palestinians back on hunger strike
by Ed Newman
PALESTINIAN prisoners have staged a mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons to protest crackdowns and mistreatment by prison officials.
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How China is winning hearts worldwide
by Muhammad
Aamir Saeed
THE PEOPLE’S Republic of China is a real bearer of democracy in the world by having a government of and for the people, with the country providing an example of genuine prosperity and development for its people in the modern era. Modern China – the developed China we know today – is the product of a long struggle and endless efforts made by its leaders and the Chinese people.
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Cuba always committed to peace
by María Josefina Arce
UNDER THE presidency of Gustavo Petro, Colombia is opening up to peace. And once again Cuba has been chosen to host talks on this path, now between the government of Colombia that took office on 7th August and the ELN (National Liberation Army) guerrillas
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Features
Korea’s Road to Freedom
by Dermot Hudson
Korean solidarity campaigners held a seminar at the NCP Party Centre on 13th August to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Korea and the outstanding achievements of the Korean communists who freed the country from Japanese colonialism and then beat back the American invaders and their lackeys during the Korean war. This is the contribution from Dermot Hudson, the Chair of the Korean Friendship Association (UK).
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The historic emergence of capitalism
by J Sykes
DESPITE what bourgeois economists, the priests of property and profit, would have us believe, capitalism isn’t the eternal way of things. It had a beginning – and it will have an end. As we begin our discussion of political economy, let’s draw upon historical materialism to examine how capitalism arose.
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