National News
More lies from the BBC
by James Smith, Global Times
Over the weekend, a BBC news report accused the British Army of using firms linked to “Uygur forced labour” in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to invest in over £200 million of solar panels in order to meet its renewable energy targets. The article, citing a report from Sheffield Hallam University’s ‘Helena Kennedy Centre’, argued in favour of supply chain diversification by cutting reliance on China, which dominates the global Solar Panel supply chain
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Stop the Slaughter! Stop the War!
by New Worker correspondent
London comrades joined tens of thousands of people who marched through the heart of the capital for another weekend of protests, calling for an immediate end to Israel’s assault on Gaza and condemning the Sunak government for again failing to vote in favour of a ceasefire at the United Nations
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Liverpool calls for justice for Palestine!
by Peter Hendy
Protesters marched through the busy streets of Liverpool to Derby Square following a rally at the Metropolitan Cathedral on Saturday. The rain had lashed down and the wind howled in from the Irish Sea but ceased as the rally began. Undeterred, the people of Liverpool gathered to demonstrate their support for the Palestinian people and demand “Justice for Palestine!” .
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Christmas Blues
by New Worker correspondent
With Christmas coming up a number of industrial disputes are brewing that threaten to impact the holiday season. One is a dispute in Rochdale where distribution drivers employed by Wincanton who distribute who work for supermarket chain Asda
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
As the political year draws to an end apart for the Scottish budget, which takes place next Tuesday, this is an appropriate time to take a look back at the year’s political events.
In some respects Scottish politics can be summed up in two images. The first was of the contenders for the SNP leadership moments before the results were publicly declared. One was smiling and the other glum, but in this case the loser was the smiling one. The other was the spectacle of a police cordon around the house of the former First Minister as they searched for clues to the £600,000 missing from SNP accounts.
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International News
Facing the threat from climate change
by María Josefina Arce, Radio Havana Cuba
Climate change is a potential danger to the health and well-being of humanity. This is reaffirmed by research released at COP28 – the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which has just closed in Dubai, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates.
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Zelensky begs for cash as unrest grows
by Andrei Degalin, Sputnik
Ukraine is on the brink of a coup as Zelensky begs for more dollars from the Americans.
Nearly two years since the escalation of the Ukrainian conflict in February 2022, the Kiev regime finds itself dependent on financial and military assistance from its Western sponsors
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Features
China reaches for the stars
by John Maryon
Since gaining people’s power in 1949 the Communist Party of China (CPC) has made remarkable progress to successfully achieve its longterm goal of transforming the once-impoverished country into a modern socialist state. Mao Zedong proclaimed the foundation of the People’s Republic of China in front of a vast crowd in Tiananmen Square on the 1st October in that year. Influenced by the success of Joseph Stalin, Mao ensured that the communist party would play the leading role in building socialism. Billions have been lifted from dire poverty, life expectancy has soared and today, guided by its adoption of Marxism with Chinese characteristics, China has emerged as a world leader in many fields, respected for its scientific, economic and technical progress. Beijing has also become an important world diplomatic centre and a powerful new force for world peace.
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The Doolittle Raid: friendship forged in blood and fire
by Leng Shumei, Global Times
Liao Mingfa, an 88-year-old man living in Jiangshan county, Quzhou, in East China’s Zhejiang Province still remembers that on 19th April 1942, when he was a little boy, his father, Liao Shiyuan, rescued a foreign man in the local mountains.
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Kissinger and the class he served
by John Catalinotto, Workers World (USA)
When a leading political figure of US imperialism, someone hated by hundreds of millions of people, if not billions, dies – as Henry Kissinger did on 29th November – writing an analysis of their role presents a challenge. This challenge does not regard repeating the details of this individual’s life. It’s in explaining the relation between Kissinger and the class and system that he served, the billionaire Western ruling class and world imperialism, led by the USA
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