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UKRAINE REELING AFTER ATTACKS ON POWER GRID

by our Eastern European Affairs correspondent

THE RUSSIANS continue to pound Ukraine with daily rocket and drone attacks as their troops hold the line all along the western front. Civilians are being evacuated from Kherson in anticipation of a new Ukrainian push on the southern provincial capital liberated in the early day of the war and the Russian authorities briefly suspended their participation in the “grain” deal after a Ukrainian attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet off Sevastopol.

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The war goes on and on…

by Theo Russell

AROUND 60 people attended a meeting at Hamilton House in central London last week organised by the Stop the War Coalition (StW) that included contributions from a number of trade union and peace activists, as well as a video message from Yurii Sheliazhenko of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement.

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Building a fairer society - Echoes from the Chinese Communist Congress

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A week after the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party drew to a close, the CMG Europe media group assembled experts from different fields to discuss key messages about the direction the world’s most populous country is heading. On this special one-hour show, CMG Europe’s Juliet Mann was joined by China’s Ambassador to the UK, Zheng Zeguang, and a host of experts from across the world to consider exactly what that new journey will look like, and how it will impact on relations with the UK and Europe.

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Editorial

The Road to Sharm el Sheikh

SO RISHI SUNAK is going to Egypt after all for COP27 – or to give it its full name, the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. There he’ll meet his master, Jo Biden, as well as the leaders of Franco-German imperialism and the rest of the imperialist pack gathering at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh for the largest annual conference on climate change.

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