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Gaza: Student anger sweeps the West!

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

College protests are sweeping America as students occupy campuses in solidarity with the Palestinians. The protests began when students at Columbia University in New York occupied their campus last month and kicked off a wave of student-led Palestine solidarity protests across the USA. At least 2,000 American students have now been arrested – 200 at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) this week.

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The Posties at Bournemouth

by New Worker correspondent

The postal workers’ section opened with a reminder of two of the union’s achievements: the 2014 Dangerous Dogs Act and a building regulation to ensure that letterboxes in new houses are an easy hit for postal workers. All very well, but one would have thought there were bigger fish to fry. And the high-profile scandal involving the Post Office and the dodgy computing equipment which saw many postmasters wrongly convicted for fraud was not one which greatly involved the CWU, although it has given the union a stick to beat their bosses with.

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Editorials

Stand by the Palestinians!

A wave of student revolts is sweeping across the entire Western world. Tent stake-outs and occupations demanding justice for the Palestinian Arabs and an end to Israeli aggression in Gaza have sprung up in centres of learning to challenge the bourgeois consensus in support of Zionism and Israeli oppression in the Middle East.

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Tory blues

Another bad week for the Conservatives. They lost the Blackpool South by-election and more than half the local council seats they were defending. The swing to Labour – over 20 per cent in the Blackpool poll – confirms the findings of the pollsters over the past 12 months. But it’s not all been plain sailing for Starmer & Co.

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