National News
Local Government Blues
by New Worker correspondent
The news that Birmingham City Council has effectively gone bankrupt and will be run by Commissioners appointed by Levelling Up Secretary Michal Gove is bad news for workers.
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Local Government Victory
by New Worker correspondent
The London Borough of Camden was the scene of great rejoicing last week at the news that a hundred of its most devoted public servants had won a £5,000 pay rise after two months of pickets and protests that forced the council’s private contractors improved wages.
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Cycling in London for Assange
by Ed Newman, Radio Havana Cuba
Protests demanding the immediate release of Julian Assange take place every week in London.
The most recent was the “Free Assange” bi-cycle tour, during which about 100 cyclists rode through the heart of the capital, ending their tour outside the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand, where they received the Walkley Award, an Australian prize awarded to Julian Assange for his excellence and courage in defence of free journalism. This award was symbolically collected by his representative Craig Murray, the former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan.
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Mandarin learning flourishing in British schools
by Zhang Kaiwei and Liang Jun, Xinhua
Mandarin teaching and learning are flourishing in British primary and secondary schools, said attendees at an award presenting ceremony in London last week.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
Nominations have closed for elections to the SNP’s ruling bodies, the National Executive Committee (NEC) and the Policy Development Committee (PDC), to be voted for at next month’s annual Conference. The SNP is a governing party that claims to have nearly 74,000 members, but of the 46 places (29 NEC and 17 on the PDC) no fewer than 21 are either uncontested or even worse cannot secure a single nomination.
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International News
Canadian Speaker resigns over Ukrainian Nazi row
Sputnik
Anthony Rota, the Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, has resigned following the scandal around the invitation and recognition of Ukrainian Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka in the Canadian parliament in Ottawa.
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The poison of its own greed
by Roberto Morejón , Radio Havana Cuba
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa joined the long list of personalities and international organisations demanding respect for Africa’s riches, plundered by colonial powers, transnationals and armed groups.
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Bidenomics: poverty for masses, more money for war
Workers World (USA)
The primary plank in Joe Biden’s re-election campaign centres around what he calls “Bidenomics” – the premise that he can “grow the economy from the middle out and bottom up” as opposed to the trickle-down economics of some earlier administrations.
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Features
The Korean war: the first defeat for US imperialism
by Dermot Hudson
A contribution to the Friends of Korea committee seminar held at the NCP Centre in July to commemorate the victory of the Korean people over US imperialism and its lackeys.
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Allende: Hated by the Americans
Guardian, (Australian communist weekly)
Alejandro Salvador Allende Fernández, Salvador Allende’s grandson, was in Sydney for the 50th anniversary commemoration of the 1973 coup against the Allende government in Chile on 11th September. His mother Beatriz worked for Che Guevara for many years. His father was a Cuban diplomat .
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Nord Stream blast – a step towards world war
by Ekaterina Blinova , Sputnik
A year ago, three of four Nord Stream pipelines, designed to deliver 110 billion cubic metres per annum of Russian natural gas to Europe, were destroyed by a series of powerful blasts. Who did it?
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