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Ukraine – Diplomatic Moves as Fighting Rages

by our Eastern European Affairs correspondent

The leaders of People’s China and Belarus have expressed their "extreme interest" in a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Ukraine at a summit meeting this week. French President Emmanuel Macron says he’s going to China to call on Beijing to "help us pressure Russia" to end the war and the Russian foreign minister says his country will not allow the West to blow up any more gas pipelines.

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Almost Slave Labour

by New Worker correspondent

Friday 24th February was National Artist Day in Thailand and the Feast Day of Saint Ethelbert of Kent. Both passed unnoticed in the UK – much like the Trade Union Congress’s annual Work Your Proper Hours Day (WYPHD), which was also on the same day. The event is part of the TUC’s “battle against long hours and excessive unpaid overtime”. This, as we will see, has not been a great success.

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Editorial

A Windsor Knot

Rishi Sunak may not have achieved much during his tenure in No 10 over the last five months but the ‘Windsor Agreement’ that resolved the long-standing dispute over Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit relations with the European Union was no mean achievement for the Tory leader, who had to ride rough-shod over the protests from his Unionist allies in the north of Ireland and amongst his own back-benchers.

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