National News
Williamson in new bullying row
by Oleg Burunov
PRIME MINISTER Rishi Sunak is under fire for bringing Gavin Williamson back into the Cabinet despite the fact that the PM knew the former defence secretary was under investigation for allegedly bullying former chief whip Wendy Morton.
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Britain is broken!
by New Worker correspondent
NCP LEADER Andy Brooks and other London comrades joined thousands of demonstrators demanding an end to austerity in Trafalgar Square on Saturday.
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Off the rails and on the road
by New Worker correspondent
MAYBE the Sunak government, which pulls the strings of the rail companies on pay, is having second thoughts following the wave of solid strikes that have paralysed the entire network in recent weeks. RMT thinks so. They suspended strike action this week having secured unconditional talks with Network Rail and a promise of an offer from train operating companies who hitherto have made no such offer.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
THE GREAT and the good are in Egypt this week for the UN’s COP27 climate change conference at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak were there along with more than 120 other global leaders to discuss the next steps in curbing climate change. Greta Thunberg, the eco-warrior who rarely shuns the lime-light, says this is just “greenwashing” and she’s boycotting the jamboree. But our First Lady, Nicola Sturgeon, isn’t.
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International News
New victory for Cuba at the UN
by María Josefina Arce
FOR THE 30th time, the UN General Assembly condemned the criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed against Cuba, which threatens the human rights of an entire people and has caused losses to the country in 60 years amounting to more than 154 BILLION dollars.
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UK accused of building secret terror army in Ukraine
by Ed Newman
BRITISH intelligence is reportedly working to create and train a covert “terrorist force” in Ukraine assigned to attack Russian targets in Crimea on behalf of the Kiev regime. Citing leaked documents, the Grayzone news blog reported that UK intelligence operatives signed an agreement with Ukraine to build the so-called “partisan” terror army.
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The American ‘war on terror’ continues
by Inas Abdulkareem
TWENTY-ONE years have passed since the 9/11 attacks in the USA and the world is still under terrorist threat whilst in the throes of political crises and economic disasters. The current global crisis is largely the result of Washington’s exploitation of the attacks on the Twin Towers to launch pre-emptive strikes on the flimsiest of pretexts on Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries.
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Features
The triumph of the City
by Prabhat Patnaik
THE TRIUMPH of the City of London, the ‘Square Mile’ which houses the citadel of British finance, is complete. Not only did it get rid of one British prime minister, whom it distrusted, in the space of just 44 days, but even got a new one of its choice installed forthwith. Rishi Sunak is being called many things: the first British Asian prime minister, the first Hindu prime minister, and so on.
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Australia: how capitalism killed pub rock
by Joseph Tafra
THE AUSTRALIAN music scene from the 1970s to the early ‘90s was wildly different than today. Rock bands at most levels of success could play three or four nights a week at big pubs – sometimes called ‘beer barns’ – throughout urban, suburban and regional Australia, making a modest living simply through playing gigs.
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Friendship through football
by Wu Yindan
WHEN PEOPLE walk into the Stoke-on-Trent Town Hall, the first thing they see is probably Stoke’s Sporting Hall of Fame. Angela Smith, a pioneer of professional women’s squash who led the British team to victory in the women’s world team squash championships held in England in 1979, was the first woman to be inducted into that Hall of Fame.
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America: an oligarchy masquerading as a democracy
by Wang Wenwen
The 2022 US mid-term elections kicked off this week. US domestic politics are increasingly polarised and violent and different interest groups can barely compromise to push forward policies that truly benefit social development. Through the lens of her research focus, Deborah Veneziale, an American journalist based in Italy, discusses with Global Times reporter Wang Wenwen the dangerous impulses of American political elites and the crumbling US democracy.
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An event that changed the world
by María Josefina Arce
IT IS NOT possible to talk about the history of humanity without mentioning a transcendental event that in the 20th Century changed the world. Some 105 years ago, the great October Socialist Revolution in Russia placed power in the hands of the workers and peasants and created the essential conditions for the victory of a new system: the socialist system.
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