National News
Rubbish strikes
by New Worker correspondent
Across England three groups of refuse disposal and redistribution workers are involved in industrial action.
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More action over pay
by New Worker correspondent
A serious warning has been delivered to the effect that Britain could run short of tea, after 88 per cent of GMB’s 150 members at Tetley’s plant belonging to Tata Consumer Products Limited in Teesside rejected a pay offer from the company. They are balloting for industrial action
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Teachers accept Government offer
by New Worker correspondent
July began with teachers going on strike and ended with all four teaching unions in England announcing they were accepting the 6.5 per cent pay rise as recommended to the Government by the School Teachers’ Review Body for 2023–4.
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On and Off the Rails
by New Worker correspondent
Just as one long-running industrial dispute comes to an end, another continues. This week and next train drivers’ union ASLEF is staging an overtime ban as part of their struggle for a decent pay rise at 15 rail companies in England. Many drivers do overtime because train operating companies do not employ enough drivers, so the impact will be severe.
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For peace on the Korean peninsula
by New Worker correspondent
Korean solidarity campaigners met at the NCP’s Party Centre in London last weekend for a hybrid seminar to celebrate the victory of the Korean people over US imperialism and its lackeys in the Korean war, and to discuss the prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula and the way forward for the solidarity campaign in Britain.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
It’s the “silly season”, when parliaments and law courts close. The great and the good depart for their usual watering holes in the sun – or maybe not, given the riots in France and the forest fires sweeping southern Europe – and millions of working people take their traditional summer holidays – possibly for the first time since the end of the COVID-19 crisis.
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International News
The Korean War: no end of a lesson
Global Times
The USA will continue to suffer if it fails to learn lessons from the Korean War.
The 27th July marked the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Ar- mistice Agreement. Prior to this commemorative day, a US nuclear ballistic missile submarine visited Busan, South Korea, the first visit by a US submarine since 1981. Some US congress- men have openly claimed that this move is not only a warning to north Korea but also a deterrent against China
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USA: Teamsters claim victory
by Mark Gruenberg , People’s World (USA)
The Teamsters claimed a big win on 25th July when, within hours of bargaining restarting for the first time in three weeks, UPS (United Parcel Service) agreed to a five-year tentative contract with the union.
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The anti-racist legacy of Tony Bennett
by Monica Moorehead , Workers World (USA)
Tony Bennett, who died peacefully at the age of 96 on 21st July, was not only one of the most influential singers of the 20th Century but a conscientious supporter of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. In his 1998 autobiography, The Good Life, Bennett spoke on how his friendship with a Black soldier while they served in the army during the Second World War was condemned by racist white officers. Bennett stated that he opposed all wars following this experience. In fact, Bennett refused to sing the national anthem because of its violent lyrics.
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Another Marxist view from India
by Robin MacGregor
Revolutionary Democracy; Volume two, No 1 (New Series), April 2023. £5.00 + £1.00 PP from NCP Lit: PO Box 73, London SW11 2PQ.
The latest issue of the twice-yearly Indian journal Revolutionary Democracy has once again arrived on these shores. The usual three-part format of items on contemporary India – articles from across the globe from movements associated with the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (ICM- LPO), which adheres to the Albanian Hoxha tradition), along with hitherto unknown material from the Soviet archives.
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West’s policy the root of Africa’s food crisis
by Maxim Grishenkin
Speaking at the Second Russia-Africa Summit last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the Kremlin is ready to deliver grain free-ofcharge to a number of African countries, including Burkina Faso.
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Australian MPs call to free Assange
by Ed Newman
Julian Assange’s sup- porters in the Aus- tralian parliament have implored the US government to “get him the hell out of a maximum security prison” regardless of diplomatic friction over the WikiLeaks founder’s eventual fate.
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Features
China: fighting for a better life
by Yuan Yuan, Beijing Review
The Enbo club, a mixed martial arts (MMA) club, was forced into the spotlight in 2017 when a viral video showed two underage children from the club fighting in an octagon cage. The video sparked heated discussion of whether the club was placing children in commercial fights. But a probe into the club and its founder uncovered a different story
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Why is Blinken snubbed?
Xinhua
During his latest Asia-Pacific trip, US foreign minister, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, tried to persuade New Zealand to join the AUKUS (Australia–UK–USA) military alliance. The response he got was clear – it would cost New Zealanders their soul to accept the top US diplomat’s advice.
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In search of Karl Marx
by Carole Barclay
London comrades went to Trier in July – a small German town in the Moselle valley just a few miles from the border with Luxembourg. Trier was once an imperial capital in Roman times. In the Middle Ages it was the capital of an independent German state ruled by the Archbishop of Trier that only ended during the Napoleonic occupation.
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