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Guns blaze as Israelis spurn peace offer

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Guns blaze in the streets of Gaza. The Palestinian resistance hits back at the Israeli invaders forcing the Zionists to extend conscription to three years and raise the age limit to 45 for reservists. Egyptian and Qatari efforts to end the fighting continue in Cairo. Hamas says it’s willing to consider a short-term truce for a prisoner swap and the supply of emergency food and medical supplies into the Palestinian enclave as the first stage towards a truce. Saudi Arabia says there can be no diplomatic relations with Israel until the war stops and an independent Palestinian state is recognised on the 1967 borders with Arab East Jerusalem as its capital. And Spain has suspended all arms export licenses to Israel, noting that recent events “made us realise the importance of a just and permanent solution to the question of the Palestinian people”.

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The Childcare Crisis

by New Worker correspondent

As a General Election is looming it is essential for the Tories to throw a few crumbs in the direction of the peasantry. One of these is the pledge of 15 hours of free childcare for two-year-olds during term-time in England from April, with children from nine months included from September. From September 2025 working parents of children under five will be get to 30 hours’ free child-care every per week. That is the theory at least, but the plans are not going smoothly.

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Editorial

Where are we going?

Labour looks set to win the next general election. The opinion polls say Starmer’s heading for a landslide victory of Blairite proportions. But surveys can be misleading. Sunak is undoubtedly in trouble. He’s failed to win back the “middle Englanders” who abandoned the Tories when the economy nearly collapsed under Liz Truss. Sunak’s failed to appease the Tory bigots over the refugee crisis who are now turning to the “PopCons” – the ‘Popular Conservative’ Trussite faction in parliament or the Faragist Reform Party.

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