National News
BBC ‘blinding public opinion’ on Palestine
by Oleg Burunov , Sputnik
The BBC has joined the “yellow press” lacking objectivity and professionalism due to its biased stance on global developments.
A group of BBC journalists have accused the UK broadcaster of bias and double standards in covering the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, arguing that more attention is paid to Israeli victims. In a letter released earlier this week, the journalists in particular made it clear that they would like to know when the number of casualties among Palestinians would be “high enough for our editorial stance to change”
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Lift the siege on Gaza!
by New Worker correspondent
Hundreds of thousands of protesters returned to London last weekend to march through the heart of the capital demanding the lifting of the Israeli siege of Gaza.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
Labour looks set to take back many of its former strongholds in England but that’s not the case in Scotland, where the party’s recovery seems as elusive as ever if the latest opinion poll is anything to go by. Although the approval rating for the Scottish nationalists’ leader Humza Yousaf have dipped, the SNP remains streets ahead of its rivals when it comes to voting intentions at the next Westminster and Scottish parliamentary elections.
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International News
No NATO arms supplies to Ukraine!
by New Worker correspondent
Last Saturday Theo Russell from the UKbased International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity joined a protest march in the financial capital of the Netherlands calling for justice for the Odessa Trade Union House murders in May 2014, the release of Ukrainian political prisoners, and an end to the torture and killing of Ukrainians opposed to the Zelensky regime.
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Hollywood clamp down on pro-Palestine views
by Ed Newman, Radio Havana Cuba
America’s Hollywood film industry has clamped down on actors and actresses over their pro-Palestine views and opposing Israel’s brutal aggression against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
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On the Dublin Riots
Statement from the Communist Party of Ireland
First and foremost, the Communist Party of Ireland extends our deepest sympathies and well wishes to all the victims and their families of the horrendous stabbing and the subsequent violence in Dublin on 23rd November, and in the strongest possible terms, denounces the riots on the city centre’s streets later that evening.
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Zelensky on the ropes
Sputnik
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is on thin ice. That’s the conclusion of international affairs and security analyst Mark Sleboda, who joined Sputnik’s Political Misfits panel on Monday to discuss the ongoing Ukrainian political drama in the wake of the country’s failed counter-offensive this year
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Fidel and the just cause of the Palestinian people
by María Josefina Arce , Radio Havana Cuba
Fidel Castro imbued the Cuban Revolution with great humanism and solidarity, and made the defence of justice, peace and just causes one of his essential principles, including support for the Palestinians’ right to their land and to a sovereign and independent state
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Features
Ukraine: Who killed the peace deal?
by Ekaterina Blinova, Sputnik
David Arakhamia, the leader of Ukraine’s Servant of the People faction, has named former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson among the leading factors behind Kiev’s decision to tear the Russo-Ukrainian preliminary peace agreement apart last year. Why did he scapegoat BoJo?
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Germany’s Left Party splits
by K James Workers World (USA)
by Victor Grossman, People’s World (USA)
Germany’s Left Party is splitting in two. Is it a tragedy or a new hope? After months, in fact years, of inner-party squabbling in the LINKE party (The Left), the die has been cast, the Rubicon crossed, and Sahra Wagenknecht, with nine other deputies in the German federal parliament, the Bundestag, have quit the party and announced their decision to found a new party in January. Until then, when it chooses a name, it is being called the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht – For Reason and Justice (BSW).
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