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Israeli atrocities in Gaza: Palestinians demand answers!

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Palestinian guerrillas are fighting on the streets of the West Bank and Gaza to fend off Israeli troops and settler gunmen while the Lebanese resistance fires drones at Israeli military bases in Acre on the Mediterranean coast. The Yemen Houthi government say their missile teams hit three more Israeli and American cargo vessels attempting to enter the Red Sea and the Israelis say they’re “moving ahead” with their plans to storm Rafah, the key Palestinian city in the south of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian solidarity protests are sweeping Amer- ica as students take over campuses throughout the United States to call on the Biden administration to end its support for Israeli aggression and the Palestinians are demanding answers following the discovery of mass graves at a hospital recently occupied by the Zionists in Khan Yunis.

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The Voice of Scotland

by New Worker correspondent

The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) recently held its 127th Congress at what now seems be its permanent home at the Caird Hall, in Dundee on the banks of the beautiful silvery Tay. While the conference sees itself as the voice of Scottish workers it is seen by many others as the ‘Scotch TUC’ because it is one where the temperance advocated by Keir Hardie. who went on to found the Labour Party. and Willie Gallacher. who helped found the old Communist Party of Great Britain. is not greatly to the fore in the evenings. This is despite the city once electing a Prohibitionist MP who held the seat from1922 to 1931!

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Editorial

The Ugly Americans

Last week the Americans blocked a move to grant the State of Palestine full membership of the United Nations. The State of Palestine is the autonomous authority that administers part of the Israeli occupied West Bank under agreements that the Israelis and their American masters now conveniently ignore. The motion was moved by Algeria on the 15 member UN Security Council in New York. Twelve members, including People’s China, Russia and France voted for it. Two – Switzerland and the United Kingdom – shamefully abstained and it was vetoed by the single vote of the United States.

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