National News
Chinese spy slander “completely fabricated”
by Xu Keyue , Global Times
Roughly 10 days after a senior British diplomat visited China and made significant progress in high-level talks, the Sunak government did an about-face by hyping the so-called Chinese spy incident and accusing Beijing of “interference in British parliamentary democracy”. Beijing refuted the claim as completely fabricated and malicious slander.
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X-Ray Strike
by New Worker correspondent
A leading role in the health class war is being played by the specialist union the Society of Radiographers (SoR), which has also announced that their members will be taking strike action in both Northern Ireland and England.
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London Battles
by New Worker correspondent
More localised action is taking place at several NHS London trusts under the auspices of Unite, involving 2,800 workers, including those at the Royal London Hospital (where a Jack the Ripper suspect once worked) in the East End and St Thomas’ Hospital across the Thames from the Houses of Parliament.
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Carry on Nursing…
by New Worker correspondent
…Or not, as is often the case these days. A House of Commons Library paper on The NHS Workforce in England issued in July said that Government plans to increase the NHS workforce by 1.4 million to 2.3 million by 2036/7 are unlikely to be fulfilled.
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Stop the Arms Fair!
by New Worker correspondent
Londoners gathered last week at a vigil organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) to oppose the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair in London. The vigil in Cundy Park in East London highlighted DSEI’s role in arming Israeli apartheid, and other repressive states around the world.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
The Scottish Government’s unglamorous version of the King’s Speech – the First Minister’s Programme for Government – has taken place.
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International News
Cuba and China: growing
co-operation in biotechnology
by María Josefina Arce, Radio Havana Cuba
The collaboration in the field of biotechnology between Cuba and China can be described as dynamic and in constant renewal and growth, a relationship, described by both countries, of common interest and shared profit.
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Making people smile is an achievement
by Lê Hương, VNS
Looking at the mesmerising photos of landscapes and people in Hànội by British photographer Marcus Lacey, people might think he has lived here for many years. Yet Lacey had spent just 16 months in Hànội before he published his first photo collection of images taken in the Vietnamese capital, something he had not done when living in New Zealand, Thailand or Cambodia.
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Ukraine crisis as offensive stalls
by our Eastern European Affairs correspondent
The NATO-sponsored Ukrainian offensive is finally petering out as the rainy season comes and the ground turns to mud. The Russians have held the line from the Black Sea to the Donbas over the last four months while the Ukrainians have failed to achieve any strategically important victories apart from a handful of ruined villages on the front-line that will be the first to go if and when the Russians launch their own winter big push.
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When horror and fear gripped Chile
by María Josefina Arce, Radio Havana Cuba
On 11th September 1973, horror and death came to Chile. The coup d’état, led by General Augusto Pinochet, against the government of constitutional president Salvador Allende, destroyed democracy and installed state terrorism. It was the beginning of one of the darkest and saddest periods in the history of the country.
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Features
The rise of the Global South
by Danny Haiphong, Global Times
BRICS expansion, a sign of the rise of the Global South, marks the decline of US hegemony and its ideological bedrock, American exceptionalism. American exceptionalism posits that the USA is the ‘best’ country in the world and portrays US dominance as a permanent feature of global politics. Presumed allies and adversaries alike are expected to follow the economic, political and military dictates of US policymakers no matter the consequences for their own sovereign development.
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Charles E Ruthenberg: The first leader of the Communist Party USA
by C J Atkins, People’s World (USA)
At the time of his death in 1927, he was lauded as “one of the most indicted and imprisoned workers” in the history of the American labour movement. Yet today, few know the name Charles Emil Ruthenberg. When he passed away suddenly at the age of 44, he cheated a Michigan prison of its next inmate and left a young Communist Party USA (CPUSA) – then called the Workers (Communist) Party – in mourning for its first general secretary.
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Intergenerational Report
The march of history
by Marcus Browning, Guardian (Australian communist weekly)
Last week the Australian Albanese government announced the list of economic burdens that it intends will accompany the Intergenerational Report into the future – the NDIS, Medicare, excessive corporate taxes, an ageing generation, and the need to foist the planned austerity programme onto the working people.
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