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Stop the Slaughter – Stand by Palestine!!

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Hundreds of thousands thronged the streets of Yemen last week to condemn the Anglo-American airraids on their missile bases and support their Houthi government’s blockade on Zionist shipping in the Red Sea while millions of others took to the streets all over the world to stand by the Palestinians and condemn Zionist aggression. Israel continues its carpet bombing of the beleaguered Gaza Strip where the Palestinian resistance is battling to fend off the Israeli invaders. And Iran has carried out its most substantial missile attacks to-date, targeting ISIS bases in Syria and an Israeli espionage facility in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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Retail Therapy

by New Worker correspondent

As the January sales are winding down it is a suitable time to look at the retail trade, and in particular some of the issues confronting those who work in it.

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Editorials

A dangerous escalation

In the 19th Century the imperialists used ‘gun-boat diplomacy’ to carve up Africa and the rest of the world into various European spheres of influence. It worked because only the colonial powers could manufacture the weapons of mass destruction needed to enslave the peoples of what is we now call the Global South. They thought their realms, like the British Empire on which “the sun never set”, would last forever. They called it “civilisation” and “the White Man’s burden” when they brutally crushed all resistance to the forces used to build colonial empires that spanned the globe. But they couldn’t crush the spirit of freedom amongst the oppressed masses who swept away the colonial system after the Second World War.

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One up for the RMT

The RMT transport union ended its dispute with Transport for London (TfL) following an improved pay offer from City Hall that has added an extra £30 million to the pay budget to meet union demands on pay, grading structures and travel facilities.

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