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Zelensky sacks his Defence minister as offensive falters

by our Eastern European Affairs correspondent

Russia tightens its naval blockade of Ukraine while fending off more Ukrainian attempts to break through their defences from the Donbas to the Black Sea. Puppet Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky reshuffles the pack in Kiev and Russian leader Vladimir Putin holds top-level talks with the Turkish president in the Russian Black Sea spa of Sochi.

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Hold the Front Page

by New Worker correspondent

Journalists belonging to the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) at National World, which publishes the Scotsman, the Yorkshire Post, the Belfast Newsletter and over 100 regional and local newspapers, including the mighty Falkirk Herald where it all began in 1845, have voted to strike for decent pay.

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Editorial

For a democratic Labour party

Summer is known as the silly season by the press because the long parliamentary recess means they have to fill their columns with even more rubbish to make up the difference. It is a good time for bourgeois political leaders to shuffle their packs while the backstabbers make their play in the corridors of power. And it always ends with the ‘conference season’, starting with the TUC and followed by equally boring Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative bashes that we’ve all grown to know and love down the years.

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