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France and China talks on peace – but no lull in Ukraine fighting

by our Eastern European Affairs correspondent

French President Emmanuel Macron is in Beijing for top level talks with the leaders of People’s China – and Ukraine is top of the agenda. “I know I can count on you in bringing all sides to the negotiating table,” Macron said during his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Macron is clearly hoping for Chinese mediation to end the war in Ukraine. The immense amounts of money and arms being pumped into Ukraine and the financial losses that inevitably followed the imperialist sanctions on Russia now threaten to bring down the economies of Western Europe and only serve the interest of the ruling circles in the USA.

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Google ‘Redundancies’

by New Worker correspondent

Tuesday saw a lunch time protest by Google workers outside the company’s HQ at London’s King’s Cross.

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Editorials

To vote or not to vote…

That indeed is the question that millions will face when the local elections in England are held next month. In the good old days you only had to produce your voting card to cast your vote. Now voters will have to prove who they are at the polling station with an approved list photo-ID card. Anyone who cannot confirm their identity with a passport or an ID from the Government’s list will simply be turned away.

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Struggling for peace

Campaigning to end wars not an easy thing to do these days, as the supporters of No2Nato are finding out when they try to book rooms of halls for anti-war events. The ‘hidden hand’ is working overtime to ensure that all venues are closed to George Galloway and Chris Williamson in England, Scotland and Wales, whilst a whisper campaign is underway to divert or demoralise the growing number of workers and students who’ve been drawn to the new anti-imperialist campaign. Some say No2Nato should just join the Stop the War campaign. Others that it will simply become another political platform for George Galloway and Chris Williamson and the left social-democratic parties that they head.

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