National News
Crisis drives Britons to Gambling
by Svetlana Ekimenko, Sputnik
The cost-of-living crisis is forcing people across the UK to resort to gambling as a means of getting the money they desperately need to pay soaring bills, a charity has revealed.
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Down with Israeli oppression!
by New Worker correspondent
Comrades joined an angry crowd in London last week to condemn the latest wave of Zionist violence against the Palestinian Arabs. Over a thousand protesters rallied outside the Israeli embassy in a protest organised by Palestinian solidarity movements and Jewish anti-Zionist groups and to demand an end to the brutal Israeli occupation and the restoration of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.
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Classroom War
by New Worker correspondent
The trade union conference season is underway once again. One of these was that of the National Education Union (NEU), who marked the occasion by electing its first single General Secretary since it was formed in 2017 to replace the two incumbents from its component unions, the National Union of Teachers and the smaller Association of Teachers and Lecturers. In addition to teachers in both the public and private sectors, the NEU represents agency workers such as supply teachers and classroom assistants.
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Defending the rights of the unemployed!
by New Worker correspondent
NCP campaign organiser Theo Russell joined demonstrators outside Caxton House, the headquarters of the Department for Work and Pensions, in London last week. Called by the Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group, the picketers were protesting against the radical overhaul of disability benefits that could see people with complex or invisible conditions left hundreds of pounds out of pocket.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
On Sunday, First Bus Glasgow threatened that they would stop running evening and night buses into the Pollock area of the city because of the anti-social behaviour of some of the local youth. The local MSP, one Humza Yousaf, unsurprisingly made no comment on this matter. He clearly has other matters on his mind.
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International News
Trump on the come-back trail
by Roberto Morejón, Radio Havana Cuba
Former US President Donald Trump has turned the legal proceedings against him in New York into a show to project his candidacy for the 2024 presidential elections.
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Odious US involvement in Ukraine crisis
by Zhang Kaiwei and Liang Jun, People’s Daily (Beijing)
A small number of Pentagon documents on the Russia-Ukraine military conflict, including some marked “top secret”, were posted on Twitter and Telegram last week. Since then, journalists, researchers and social media sleuths have uncovered additional classified documents posted as early as 1st March on additional sites.
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Biden Stirs up the Shenanigans
by James Tweedie, Sputnik
Joe Biden waded into the rows over Brexit and tainted US meat exports to Europe when he visited Ireland this week – whilst dodging bomb threats from dissident Republicans.
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Palestinian resistance will continues
by Beatriz Montes de Oca, Radio Havana Cuba
The head of Hamas’s political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has reaffirmed the continuation of Palestinian resistance to Israeli crimes.
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Features
Fare Thee Well, James Monroe!
by Bernie Holland ,
The ‘Monroe Doctrine’ originated by US President James Monroe in 1823 proclaimed that the whole of the Americas was its own ‘backyard’ and that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas was a potentially hostile act against the USA. During the Cold War this ‘principle’ was extended to enable US imperialism to establish its hegemony over Western Europe and large parts of Africa and Asia.
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Trump’s indictment: only a beginning
By Otis Grotewohl , Workers World (USA)
Former President Donald J Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on 31st March. The unexpected news was celebrated by many oppressed people, class-conscious workers and many on the left.
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Chinese doctors in Tunisia befriend patients and colleagues
by Xu Supei and Huang Ling , People’s Daily (Beijing)
Despite the passage of 50 years, Xiao Chengjing still remembers vividly the day he travelled to Tunisia on his first trip abroad.
“Everything was new to me,” said 84-year-old Xiao, recalling the excitement of flying on a Boeing plane whilst donning headphones and listening to music back in 1973.
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A taste of the Potteries
by Carole Barclay
Stoke-on-Trent is not a major tourist magnet. This northern city is actually comprised of six towns brought together as one civic authority in 1910. Known as ‘The Potteries’, this was the home of the English ceramics industry that began in the 18th century and continues to this day in the six towns that make up modern Stoke.
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Who Was Vladlen Tatarsky?
by Ilya Tsukanov, Sputnik
Vladimir ‘Vladlen’ Tatarsky, a well-known war correspondent who had previously served in the Donbas militias, was assassinated on Sunday 2nd April when a bomb planted in a statuette exploded whilst he was meeting supporters in a St Petersburg cafe. Thirty-two people were injured in the blast, six of whom are in a serious condition. The woman who presented the figurine to Tatarsky has now been arrested.
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