National News
Shapps: the rants and raves of an armchair general
by Mark Blacklock, Global Times
Last week Defence Secretary Grant Shapps gave an intemperate speech in Lon- don about the UK’s current defence posture. His first public pronouncement since he took up his post purported to provide an overview of the needs of the country’s armed forces, how they can protect the nation’s interests and prosecute Britain’s foreign policy objectives, and how the government will achieve this
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In Academia also…
by New Worker correspondent
As university staff have secured their pension rights, much of the industrial action in the education world seems to be taking place in the Further Education sector where, among other things, local government financial problems are aggravating problems of dreadful management.
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End fascist terror in Ukraine
by New Worker correspondent
Another group of workers have announced they are going on strike in protest at their employer planning to sack them and re-employ some for only six months of the year and leaving others even worse off having to rely on ad-hoc freelance work. Their unions will be holding a picket outside their workplace in central London on Tuesday before strike action begins on Thursday.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
Boris Johnson did not come out of the UK-wide COVID-19 Enquiry very well. His already battered reputation was worsened by the revelations of his rule breaking and mismanagement of the crisis. The same enquiry’s visit to Edinburgh has made even him look like a model of rectitude and efficiency however, compared with the doings of his opposite number in Edinburgh, Nicola Sturgeon, whose reputation has fallen even further under the gaze of Lady Hallett’s Enquiry.
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International News
Working for the Global South
by María Josefina Arce , Radio Havana Cuba
Cuba hands over presidency of the Group of 77 & China to Uganda this week – a responsibility it has held since January last year and which it assumed with the will to work in favour of the aspirations of the nations of the South.
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West turns blind eye to latest Zelensky atrocity
by Oleg Burunov, Sputnik
Western leaders remain tight-lipped on the Kiev regime’s deadly terrorist attack on Sunday, with many mainstream media headlines only mentioning the very fact of the event without singling out who was behind the tragedy.
On Sunday, Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk’s Kirovsky district, a busy area with markets and shops which are full of people, especially on weekends. It left 27 civilians killed and 25 more injured.
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Zionism, Anti-Semitism and the Palestinian Tragedy
by Raúl Antonio Capote, Granma
The recent events in the Gaza Strip have laid bare, as never before, the essence of Zionism and the complicity of the West and the USA with the Israeli regime. With total impunity, the Zionist military forces have acted against the civilian population. They stop at nothing.
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Features
Teapot Dome and Al Capone: The early days of the American communist press
by Art Shields, People’s World (USA)
Art Shields (1898–1988), pioneering working class journalist, was present for the birth of the American Daily Worker in January 1924. In this article, assembled from reminiscences published in 1969 and 1974, he recalls those early days of the publication and the world into which it was born.
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Lodestar of Revolutionary Advance For Human Emancipation
by Sitaram Yechury, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Lenin, the leader of the Russian revolution died 100 years ago on 21st January 2024. Shot and wounded by a fanatic in 1918, Lenin’s health had never fully recovered. The Bolshevik leader led the revolutionaries who swept away the old order in 1917. Lenin led the revolutionaries who found the new Soviet republic that beat back counter-revolution and imperialist intervention in the civil war that followed
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Solidarity in Action: A Chinese bomb-disposal expert in Cambodia
by Xie Wenting, Global Times
In the heart of Cambodia, a nation scarred by the remnants of war, Liu Wenzhi, a retired military veteran turned demining specialist, has embarked on a dangerous, yet fulfilling mission of land-mine elimination.
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