National News
Getting back on track with China
by Mark Blacklock , Global Times
David Cameron’s appointment as Britain’s new foreign secretary has the potential to breathe new life into the China–UK relationship, which has in recent years experienced some serious setbacks. But because of the continuous internal political fighting within the ruling Tory party, it is also possible that China will become the focus of negative attention from critics who will use Cameron’s unique understanding of China to attack him
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Small Victories
by New Worker correspondent
Contracted-out caterers employed by Rail Gourmet on TransPennine Express services have won an impressive 21.21 per cent pay rise (an average of £4,000 extra per year). Needless to say, this was only achieved after a series of strikes that management unsuccessfully tried to break by employing scabs on £25 per hour, greatly in excess of what the striking workers earned or demanded.
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And a serious setback
by New Worker correspondent
Sadly we must end with some bad news that could have wide-ranging repercussions for many precarious workers. Tuesday lunchtime saw a bleak announcement from their lordships at the Supreme Court. They ruled that riders hired by Deliveroo cannot be represented by a trade union for the purposes of collective bargaining despite years of campaigning
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Stop the war in Gaza!
by New Worker correspondent
Palestinian solidarity campaigners took a break from marching through London to call for local protests up and down the country. Over 100 rallies and marches were held across the UK and London was no exception.
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Protests in Southampton
by New Worker correspondent
In recent weeks there have been a number of protests across Southampton in solidarity with the Palestinian people resisting Israeli aggression in Gaza. The demonstrations and vigils have called for an immediate ceasefire and a negotiated solution.
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Yoon not welcome here!
by New Worker correspondent
NCP leader Andy Brooks joined Korean solidarity campaigners protesting outside the south Korean embassy in London on Tuesday. Called by the Korean Friendship Association (KFA), the picketers were protesting at the presence of puppet south Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol who landed in Britain on Monday for talks with the British government.
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Britain out of NATO now!
John Maxted from the British No2Nato-No2war campaign.
International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity held a successful ‘hybrid’ meeting in central London earlier in the month. Speakers from Britain, Ireland, Ukraine, the Russian Federation and Poland spoke on the platform or via Zoom on the topic ‘The struggle against Banderite fascism and the future of Ukraine’. This is the contribution from John Maxted from the British No2Nato-No2war campaign.
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Red books at the Casa!
by New Worker correspondent
These days bookshops are flooded with the worst kind of anti-communist, post-modernist literature, and it is very rare to be able to buy books supporting socialism and communism. Worse still, since the late 1980s many left bookshops have disappeared and nothing took their place. In London, both Collets and Central Books had gone by the early 1990s
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
SNP leader Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s First Minister, has urged the Sunak government to recognise a Palestinian state and end the “political impasse” in the Middle East; and in the Scottish parliament, MSPs backed his motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel–Gaza conflict. The First Minister also urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer formally to recognise the state of Palestine. This was, he said, the “only way” forward for a two-state solution in the Middle East .
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International News
DFLP: Israeli war-crimes in the Gaza Strip
by Fouad Baker
The barbaric Israeli aggression supported by the West, especially the USA, which has been continuing since the 8th October, was not the first. Rather, it was preceded by many wars on the Gaza Strip, resulting in thousands of martyrs in addition to the systematic destruction of homes and infrastructure.
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Last Ditch Effort to Revive Ukraine Story?
by Ekaterina Blinova, Sputnik
Lachlan Murdoch, who took the reins of Fox Corp and News Corp last week, met with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev over the weekend. So what exactly prompted this trip?
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Right wins Argentinean poll
by María Josefina Arce,, Radio Havana Cuba
A period of uncertainty begins in Argentina. The far-right Javier Milei, of the La Libertad Avanza Party, will be the new president of the country for the next four years, after being elected this Sunday in the second round of the general elections.
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Features
USA: Brave voices speak out for peace
by Chris Mahin
“It feels like the new McCarthyism.” That’s how Genevieve Lakier described the mood in the USA since the Gaza crisis began in early October. Genevieve is a professor of law at the University of Chicago whose work focuses on freedom of speech. In an interview with Politico in early November, she compared attacks on those who oppose Israel’s brutal attacks in Gaza to the anti-communist Red Scare campaign spearheaded by US Senator Joe McCarthy during the 1950s.
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From Turtle Island to Palestine, the struggle continues
by K James Workers World (USA)
by K James Turtle Island is the Native American name for North America What are the foundational myths of the USA? Who created them, and who do they erase and harm?
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