National News
More Cold War nonsense
by Global Times
The Sunak government’s concerns about the “China threat” are increasingly veering toward absurdity. On Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden publicly smeared China in parliament, alleging that “China state-affiliated actors” were involved in two cyber-attacks targeting British democratic institutions and politicians. He also announced sanctions on two individuals and one company while some media outlets claimed that China had obtained the personal details of 40 million voters. Dowden also mentioned that statements of support from the USA and other allies were expected later in the day. This may be the start of yet another collective attempt by the West to smear China.
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From the river to the sea…
by New Worker correspondent
Over 200 people demonstrated outside an Israeli owned factory in Bristol last weekend to protest against its complicity in the genocide ongoing in Gaza.
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…Palestine will be free!
by Theo Russell
Protestors marched in solidarity with the people of Gaza last weekend in Camden, North London, and held a rally near Sir Keir Starmer’s constituency office, in one of dozens of local actions across Britain.
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Carry on Doctor
by New Worker correspondent
The NHS seems to be the scene of some remarkably long-running pay disputes, caused largely by the reluctance of ministers and private employers to do anything about them. Junior doctors in England belonging to the British Medical Association have voted to continue their pay dispute by voting by 98 per cent on a 62 per cent turnout for industrial action until September. This comes after 10 previous rounds of strike action since March of last year in pursuit of a 35 per cent pay claim. This week their Welsh colleagues were on the picket line once again, and northern Irish doctors were on strike earlier this month.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
There is mixed news in the long running ferries scandal. The good news is that a new ferry has been launched on time and on budget. While many SNP Ministers are eager to turn up at the opening of a box of chocolates and gallivanting to foreign shores, none was seen at the launch. That is because the launch took place at the Cemte Matin Eddusti shipyard in Turkey, where their attendance would have been an unwanted reminder of events and non-events at Port Glasgow.
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International News
Putin: We know who did it the question is why
Sputnik
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that the barbaric terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue in Moscow had been committed by Islamist extremists. On Friday 22nd March gunmen broke into the concert hall packed with fans coming to see the Russian group, Picnic, opening fire and throwing incendiary bombs into the crowd in a terror attack that left 139 dead and many more wounded. A number of arrests have been made including four of the terrorists captured fleeing to Ukraine.
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Zyuganov: a cowardly and merciless attack
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Gennady Zyuganov, the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), joined in the mourning following the Crocus attack. “A terrible tragedy has occurred in Russia. It shocked our country and all conscientious inhabitants of the planet. The world is watching what is happening with anxiety and tension, worrying with us, mourning for the dead,” the communist leader said.
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The Americans, wars and drugs
by Guillermo Alvarado, Radio Havana Cuba
America fuels the war in Eastern Europe, gives weapons and political and diplomatic support to Israel to continue the genocide against the Palestinian population, but curiously shows itself incapable of solving a serious internal problem such as drug trafficking
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Crocus massacre: not ISIS
by Vadim Gorshenin , Pravda.Ru
A large-scale bloody terrorist attack took place in Moscow last week. Russia has started an investigation, but other countries persistently try to convince Russia that they know who the perpetrators were. How do they know? Russian special services have captured the terrorists and made them talk. They have obtained first-hand facts but someone from across the Atlantic is telling people not to listen to them.
NATO says that the ISIS terrorist group was behind the attack. Yet, there are a number of arguments that cast doubt on their involvement in the Crocus tragedy.
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ILO condemns forced labour
by Ed Newman, Radio Havana Cuba
Criminals are reaping obscene profits of nearly one-quarter of a trillion dollars from forced labour, says the International Labour Organization (ILO).
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Features
The Arab world has already left unipolarity and hegemony behind
by Ebrahim Hashem , Global Times
Bourgeois feminism is a political perspective that overlooks the material realities of oppressed women of colour in favour of upholding a capitalist, imperialist system. Bourgeois feminism splinters feminist liberation movements, often by co-opting progressive ideas about women’s rights while using racist tactics to justify colonisation. Western colonisers and imperialists have used bourgeois feminism as a long-standing tool for manufacturing consent for invasions of much of the Arab world, including Palestine, and for abhorrent levels of catastrophe in these places.
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Why China will lead the world with EVs
by David Morris, President of 1Earth Village, Senior Fellow, Centre for China and Globalisation, and a former Australian diplomat. - China Focus
A battle is underway, to determine which country will lead in the transition to zero-emission cars. The Electric Vehicle (EV) sector is expected to be a major pillar of the new green economy. Surprisingly, Germany, where the petrol-guzzling car was invented, is lagging. Meanwhile, China, where bicycles out-numbered cars just one generation ago, has become the world leader in EVs.
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Palestinian women against bourgeois feminism
by Saher Al Khamash, Workers World (USA)
Bourgeois feminism is a political perspective that overlooks the material realities of oppressed women of colour in favour of upholding a capitalist, imperialist system. Bourgeois feminism splinters feminist liberation movements, often by co-opting progressive ideas about women’s rights while using racist tactics to justify colonisation. Western colonisers and imperialists have used bourgeois feminism as a long-standing tool for manufacturing consent for invasions of much of the Arab world, including Palestine, and for abhorrent levels of catastrophe in these places
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