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RUSSIANS WIN BATTLE FOR BAKHMUT!

by our Eastern European Affairs correspondent

The battle of Bakhmut is over. Russian troops have now crushed all Ukrainian resistance in the strategic Donbas city, ending one of Russia’s bloodiest and longest sieges since the Second World War. The Ukrainian defeat clearly wrong-footed their puppet leader’s promenade at the G7 imperialist summit in Hiroshima, and a half-baked commando raid over the border did little to convince his NATO masters of their capabilities in the future. The Zelensky regime called it the “Bakhmut Fortress”. Now that fortress is gone.

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On the education front

by New Worker correspondent

During the Blair era Labour posed as a champion of “education, education, education” whilst imposing masked cuts to the schools’ budget in En­gland and Wales. In what are hopefully the latter stages of the Sunak Government things are even worse in all levels of the education sector, but there is welcome reaction from those at the chalk-face.

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Editorial

US imperialism sets agenda at Group of Seven

Once upon a time the Group of Seven (G7) had some purpose – at least for the leaders of the Western world – in providing a platform for the masters of imperialism to present a common economic front to challenge the Soviet Union and the Third World during the Cold War. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990 the G7, like the Trilateral Commission and the World Economic Forum that meets in Davos, were used by the Western powers to by-pass the United Nations in their bid to rule the world at the turn of the century.

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