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Western hints of peace following failure on all fronts

by our Eastern European Affairs correspondent

Fierce fighting continues as the Ukrainian summer offensive peters out in waves of futile attacks along the southern front. Russian forces advance in the northern Donbas, forcing the Ukrainians to order the evacuation of nearly 12,000 civilians in 37 towns and villages in the Kharkov region. In the air Russian missiles struck military targets throughout Ukraine including Kiev and the ‘western capital’ of Lvov. Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow and roads and bridges in Crimea, but most of their flying bombs were downed by the Russian defences.

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The National Maximum Wage

by New Worker correspondent

In late July 1998 the National Minimum Wage Act came was given the Royal Assent. This was the main concession the new New Labour Government of Tony Blair offered to the working class. He took care to ensure that the main provisions of the Tory anti-union laws and their abolition of wages councils, which had done at least something for the low paid, remained in place.

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Editorial

The change that Scotland needs…

North of the border the media pundits are focusing on the forthcoming by-election in south Lanarkshire and Labour’s efforts to take the seat from the Scottish nationalists. Sir Keir Starmer tells the voters that he’s going to “smash the class ceiling” and deliver a new deal for workers’ rights.

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