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West stokes the flames of War as Ukraine burns

by our Eastern European Affairs correspondent

Russian air-defences downed Ukrainian drones over Moscow and the Crimea whilst fending off wave after wave of attacks along the front from the Donbas to the Black Sea. Russia continues its relentless missile attacks on Kiev and military targets throughout Ukraine whilst tightening its Black Sea blockade that is crippling the puppet regime’s exports. And on the diplomatic front the so-called ‘peace conference’ in the Saudi port of Jeddah last weekend ended without conclusion, which is perhaps not surprising given that Russia wasn’t invited.

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Let’ s go fly a plane…

by New Worker correspondent

Or not if you work for Richard Branson these days. The 835 pilots employed by Virgin Atlantic are planning strike action. They have voted by an overwhelming 96 per cent for action over pilot fatigue.

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Editorials

Of mice and men

Neo-con American hawk John Bolton is hitting the headlines again, railing against his old boss and saying that Donald Trump’s behaviour is “erratic, irrational and unconstrained” and that Trump will likely take the USA out of NATO if he wins the presidential race in 2024. If only that were true…

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For whom the bell tolls…

Last weekend millions in Japan and throughout the world paused to remember those who died in the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the last days of the Second World War. On 6th August 1945 Hiroshima was destroyed by an American atom bomb. Nagasaki was hit three days later. Some 250,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed instantly in the atomic blasts. Many more would later perish from flash burns and radiation sickness.

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