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China calls for Gaza peace as talks break down in Cairo

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Palestinian commandos strike deadly blows against the Israeli invaders in Gaza as cease-fire talks break down in Cairo. People’s China repeats its demand for an immediate end to the fighting and the forces of the Houthi Yemeni government have sunk an American-owned freighter off the coast of Aden.

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Facing a bleak future

by New Worker correspondent

Many councils are teetering on bankruptcy in England. Since 2021 six local authorities have declared themselves effectively bankrupt. In January a poll of English councillors by the Local Government Association reported that a quarter of councillors expected their council to follow suit.

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Editorials

Robbing the poor

Though the Tories care little or nothing for the working people they exploit to keep the bourgeoisie in clover they have to pose, like virtuous Roman Senators, as impartial governors of the state machine – especially in the run-up to the general election. When the going is good the bourgeoisie will sacrifice a tiny fraction of their immense wealth to maintain the health service and what’s left of the “welfare state”. When times hard – and they certainly are now as we enter the 16th year of a recession that still shows no sign of recovery – they will try to pass the entire burden onto the backs of the workers with austerity measures that they call the “national interest”.

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A slap in the face for Starmer

Galloway bagged almost 40 per cent of the vote in the Rochdale by-election last week that was dominated by the war in Gaza. Starmer and the sad-sack Blairites that surround him told us that the average Labour voter wasn’t interested in Palestine. Last week proved them wrong.

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