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Stop Israeli aggression now!
by our Arab Affairs correspondent
Fierce partisan resistance has forced Israel to withdraw thousands of troops from the Gaza Strip – but Israeli commandos are still operating in Gaza and carpet bombing continues as the UN’s top humanitarian official warns that the relentless assault has left the beleaguered Palestinian enclave uninhabitable. US foreign minister Anthony Blinken tours the Middle East once again full of false promises of an independent Palestinian state to try and keep America’s feudal Arab allies on side while the Zionists step up their attacks on southern Lebanon and kill a senior member of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance in a targeted drone strike. And despite imperialist threats the Houthi government in northern Yemen is defiantly maintaining its blockade of all Israeli shipping in the Red Sea while South Africa accuses Israel of genocide and war-crimes at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
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Stop Israeli aggression now!
On the Roads
by New Worker correspondent
The novelist Jerome K Jerome, of Three Men in a Boat fame, once wrote: “I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” This correspondent wholeheartedly agrees – and while doing precisely that he noticed an interesting feature of modern capitalism. Recently he noticed a postman steadily walking along the pavement, stopping at various houses to make deliveries. Minutes later a van with DPD markings sped along the same road, a driver sprang out and ran up the steps to hand over a parcel before running down the steps and speeding off. The latter approach to deliveries has been the cause of fatal accidents caused by strict targets.
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On the Roads
