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Ukraine - Escalation Fears Rise

by our Eastern European Affairs correspondent

As Russian forces battle for control of the streets in central Bakhmut waves of Russian rockets and drones hit Kiev and other key Ukrainian cities last week in what the Kremlin says was a reprisal for a deadly Ukrainian commando attack across the border earlier in the month. Meanwhile, reports claiming that the Nord Stream pipelines were sabotaged by the Ukrainians have appeared in the American press and security forces say they’ve foiled a plot to kill the pro-Russian leader of Transnistria, a breakaway republic that lies between Moldova and Western Ukraine, that has been under Russian protection since the early 1990s.

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Not Always a Rosy Retirement

by New Worker correspondent

Last week the Trades Union Congress produced a short report entitled ‘Creating a Healthy Labour Market’, with a more helpful subtitle of ‘Tackling the root causes of growing economic inactivity among older people’. Like many TUC reports it is a very mixed bag. It makes some useful points and recommendations, some of which are rather bland.

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Editorial

Embracing Equality

The struggle for equal rights and the ending of all discrimination against women is re-affirmed every year on 8th March, International Women’s Day. In the people’s democracies and other parts of the Global South the day is genuinely celebrated to mark the end of feudal concepts and the emancipation of women, who Chairman Mao famously said “hold up half the sky”. The day was adopted as a holiday for women’s rights and world peace by the United Nations in 1977, but its origins go back to the early days of the modern socialist movement at the end of the 19th Century.

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