National News
Spectre of Fu Manchu returns to Britain
by by Ding Gang,Global Times
“China could use its electric cars to attack the West” was the title of a commentary I recently read in the Telegraph. The article has even more eye-catching content: “Data espionage has become the signature weapon of the Chinese party state”. Several other major British media outlets ran front-page headlines last week about the so-called Chinese cybersecurity threat, “identifying” China as a significant threat to the UK. A wave of Sinophobia is sweeping across the country, reminding me of a name that Chinese people have long forgotten, Dr Fu Manchu .
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Battle of the Dons
by New Worker correspondent
This year many British universities are facing job cuts. The decline in the numbers of overseas students has resulted in at least 15 universities announcing redundancies. These have kept many universities afloat in recent years as they are charged higher fees. In Scotland these high fees are being blamed for squeezing out local students who get free tuition
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Not So Glorious Anniversary
by New Worker correspondent
This month Paul Nowak, the General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress marked the 25th anniversary of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) with the usual platitudes bureaucrats reserve for such august moments in labour movement history
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Free, free Palestine!
by New Worker correspondent
Every year on 30th March Palestinians observe Land Day recalling the events on that day in 1976, when six unarmed Palestinians were killed and more than 100 injured by Israeli forces during protests against Israel’s confiscation of Palestinian Arab land.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
Last Saturday it was reported that the number of rough sleepers in Glasgow had increased by 50 per cent. According to the housing charity, Shelter Scotland, 15,625 households are in temporary accommodation, including 9,862 children. That is more than double the figure from a decade ago and ten per cent up on the previous year. At the same time 750,000 people are unable to heat their homes and 1,500,000 people live in overcrowded unstable or unaffordable housing.
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International News
Russians push forward in Ukraine
Southfront
A new wave of Russian precision strikes targeted Ukrainian energy facilities that supply their military-industrial complex last week, The Ukrainian authorities confirmed damage in Krivyi Rih. More explosions thundered in the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporozhie and Kharkov regions
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French pensioners rally against austerity
by Ed Newman, Radio Havana Cuba
Last week pensioners rallied in hundreds of towns and cities in France against President Emmanuel Macron’s determination for even more austerity cuts amid the inflation crisis. When campaigning in 2017 – seven years ago – Macron promised he wouldn’t cut pensions and that their purchasing power relative to inflation would be preserved.
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China condemns provocative visit of Labour politicians to Taiwan
Global Times
China has voiced firm opposition toward the ongoing visit to Taiwan this week by a “Labour Friends of Taiwan” delegation composed of some Labour Lords and MPs, saying the visit is a blatant violation of the one-China principle and a serious interference in China’s internal affairs, that also sends a wrong signal to the island’s separatist forces for “Taiwan independence.”
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Features
German peace forces have their work cut out for them
by Victor Grossman , People’s World (USA)
Watching genteel ladies and gentlemen of the Bundestag, the German parliament speechifying, often with forceful words and gestures but mostly polite, it is hard to imagine that their topic is war or peace, possibly world war or peace, even atomic war or peace. A key word was Taurus, Latin for “bull”.
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Delivering aid to the Donbas
by Russell Bentley , Sputnik
All intelligent and decent people in the world who understand the actual facts about what’s been happening in Ukraine since 2013 are on the side of the Donbas, because no decent person can be on the side of Nazis. The suffering imposed on the people of Donbas over the last decade has been brutal and immense.
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