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Stop the War! Stop Israeli aggression!

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Israeli forces continue to spread death and destruction throughout the Gaza Strip despite increasing global pressure to stop the fighting. Over 20,000 Palestinians have been killed – mostly women and children. Thousands of others are buried beneath the rubble. Thousands more have been injured.

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That Was the Year that Was

by New Worker correspondent

2022 saw the greatest number of working days lost (2.47 million) since 1989 when 4.13 million took to the picket lines. The figures for 2023 are, of course, still to be totted up, but it is clear that industrial action has not slowed down. The public sector and the transport sector, particularly the NHS and railways, have seen most of the action.

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Editorial

The hopes and fears of all the years

So this is Christmas. Celebrating the winter solstice goes back to hallowed antiquity from the Stone Age hunter-gatherers whose lives revolved around the seasons, to the Saturnalia when Roman masters served their slaves in orgies of feasting and drinking in which all the rules of society could temporarily be broken. In the Middle Ages the Catholic Church, itself largely a product of the feudal era, turned the old pagan holiday into a Christian holiday to celebrate the birth of the founder of their faith in pageants and parades that heralded the coming spring.

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