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Gaza starves as Israel invades!

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Palestinian militiamen are battling to stave off Israeli troops and armour advancing into the Gaza Strip in a Zionist offensive that began last weekend. Some 15 Israeli troops have been killed by the partisans and many more wounded in fierce fighting in the north of the densely populated Palestinian enclave under a blanket siege and day and night bombing that has taken a terrible toll in the lives of the civilian population.

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On the Buses

by New Worker correspondent

Bus services were nationalised by the post-war Labour Government, largely to the delight of well-compensated owners who were glad to be absolved of the work. This correspondent is old enough to recall bus services before privatisation and their deregulation in Scotland. When deregulation took place in the mid-1980s a bus queue was for a while literally a queue of buses looking for passengers, and bus races race took to pick up passengers from popular bus stops while other areas became bus deserts.

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Editorial

Stop the war in Gaza!

Millions upon millions of people have taken to the streets all over the world to call for justice for the Palestinians and an end to the fighting in the Gaza Strip. Not least in London, which saw over half-a-million march for Palestine through the heart of the capital last weekend and other flash demonstrations that included the take-over of the concourse at Liverpool Street station and a sit-down protest at Waterloo station.

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