National News
Save Penzance booking office
by New Worker correspondent
Demonstrators rallied outside Penzance railway station in July in support of the much loved and much used ticket office. Despite its popularity, the ticket office is under threat of closure like so many around the country.
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Outsourcing Wars
by New Worker correspondent
The campaign against the firing-and-rehiring of security guards at University College London (UCL) unfortunately has to continue. In coming weeks outsourcer Bidvest is planning to force over 250 workers, almost entirely Black and Asian, to reapply for their own jobs on lower salaries or face the sack. Forty redundancies are planned, and those whose jobs are secured lose over £10,000 per year.
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Parking Problems
by New Worker correspondent
Some of Britain’s least loved workers are taking industrial action. In the north London borough of Camden parking wardens have just started an indefinite strike whilst in Glasgow action begins next week.
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Free the Elbit Six!
by New Worker correspondent
Palestinian solidarity activists gathered outside the High Court in London on Saturday to call for the freedom of Palestine Action prisoners, jailed for taking part in direct action protests against British-Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. People have taken action in the UK, Canada and France over the jailings. It came after high-profile campaigners, including Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame, issued a joint statement condemning the British state’s persecution of the six people over their activism against the state of Israel.
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Remembering the Korean people’s victory
by New Worker correspondent
London comrades returned to the Chadswell centre in central London last weekend to mark the outbreak of the Korean war. The war began with an American attack on the people’s gov- ernment in north Korea on 25th June 1950. It ended with the Americans signing a humiliating armistice on 27th July 1953.
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Remembering Michael Collins in London
by New Worker correspondent
Over 100 people turned up to see a new plaque commemorating Michael Collins, the Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician, being unveiled in Islington, north London, last month, to mark the spot where Michael Collins joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in 1909.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
Putting up with the Trident nuclear subs at Faslane was bad enough but now it seems the warmongers want an even greater NATO presence in Scotland. The Westminster parliament’s Scottish Affairs Committee said in a report last week that Scotland could require more military presence as melting Arctic ice is likely to open-up new shipping routes that Russia and Chi- na are keen to exploit.
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International News
Demonising China to cover AI use for military ends
by Yang Sheng , Global Times
US politicians on a House Armed Services sub-committee and the head of the British secret service have recently gone on another round of hyping up the “Chinese threat” and de-monising China in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. These acts aim to use ideology to politicise the issue of AI, and to legitimise the acts of Washington and London in containing or cutting off normal co-operation and exchanges between Western companies, science technology institutions and their Chinese counterparts.
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Historic strike hits Hollywood
by Mark Gruenberg , People’s World (USA)
After more than four weeks of fruit-less talks between the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and film, television, Netflix, and streaming video producers forced the union to strike, starting on 13th July.
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On the front line
by María Josefina Arce, Radio Havana Cuba
With the satisfaction of being on the front line in the defence of the country and the achievements of the revolution, with the pen and the word as weapons in favour of the truth, UPEC, the Union of Journalists of Cuba, celebrates its 60 years of existance.
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Human rights: Words versus deeds
by Yi Xin, Xinhua
The 53rd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council that has just concluded in Geneva was a tale of two contrasting stories.
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Africa thanks Russia for support
Sputnik
Leaders of African nations are grateful to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his support in promoting the continent’s interests on international platforms says Azali Assoumani, the Chair of African Union (AU) and President of Comoros. Speaking at the Africa–Russia summit in St Petersburg this week the AU leader said: “We are grateful to President Putin because he supports us in the G20 and also supports us so that we have a permanent seat at the level of the [United Nations] Security Council,” adding that Africa needs to “have its voice” on international platforms in the multipolar era.
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Features
Israeli apartheid fuels war
by Fouad Baker
In September 2017, the right-wing Israeli magazine Hashiloach, which is funded by a Jewish-American capitalist that supports the racist Israeli right-wing government and its colonial projects in the occupied Palestinian territories, published Bezalel Smotrich’s plan and his vision for resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, under the title The Decisive Plan .
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What we defend Wall Street wants to destroy
by Sara Flounders, Workers World (USA)
What is the material basis of the grow- ing hostility on every level of the American ruling class toward People’s China?
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