National News
USDAW at Blackpool…
by New Worker correspondent
Meanwhile the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) spent the earlier part of the week at Blackpool debating the great issues of the day.
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Palestine will be free!
by New Worker correspondent
Demonstrators marched through London last weekend to again call on the Sunak government to end its complicity with Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian Arabs in Gaza. And joining them were supporters of the International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity Campaign who held a static picket along the route, that linked the struggle in the Donbas with the Palestine liberation movement, before going on to the rally in Hyde Park.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
Humza Yousaf fell on his sword following the collapse of his power-sharing coalition with the Greens last week. But the SNP Government survived a Labour motion of no confidence after the Greens refuse to vote in favour and the Scottish Tories withdrew a separate motion against Yousaf himself following the announcement of his resignation.
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International News
Columbia lit a fire!
Fightback News
Something big is happening. From Columbia University to UCLA and points in between, the student movement that stands with Palestine has been erecting encampments on campuses. The results have been powerful. The demand for universities and colleges to divest from, and break all ties with, Israeli apartheid serves to weaken the apartheid regime.
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Runaway Ukrainian nationalists fan the flames of war
by Svetlana Ekimenko , Sputnik
As US President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that includes $61 billion to continue propping up Kiev, growing numbers of Ukrainian fighting age men do whatever it takes to avoid being drafted to fight in NATO’s proxy war against Russia. However, once they successfully flee the country, many allow themselves the luxury of warmongering rhetoric.
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A hypocritical defence of Israel
by John Miles, Sputnik
New light is being shed on the United Kingdom’s military and diplomatic ties with Israel as a report by Amnesty International accuses European countries of “grotesque double standards” in their alleged concern over human rights abuses. The United Kingdom has been accused of “destabilising the entire concept of universal human rights” through its defence of Israel and repression of internal dissent.
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China condemns Sunak’s slander
by New Worker correspondent
People’s China is urging British politicians to end their belligerent rhetoric and stop stoking up confrontation. They should, instead, focus more on domestic economic and social issues and act in a way that is truly in the interests of world peace and justice, the Chinese Embassy in London said last week following Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s criticism of the ChinaRussia relationship and his listing of China as an “authoritarian state”.
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May Day around the world!
by Jorge Ruiz Miyares , Radio Havana Cuba
The tradition of May Day marches for workers’ rights began in the United States in the 1880s. Marches quickly spread to other countries at a time when industrialisation pitted poorly paid employees who had few rights and little power against increasingly dominant factory employers and land-owners.
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On May Day workers demand their labour rights
by María Josefina Arce, Radio Havana Cuba
Every May Day, men and women take to the streets of the main cities, and this year has been no different, as social injustices still persist at a global level. The world has not yet fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, which deepened inequalities and had a negative impact on the labour market, in which millions of jobs were lost.
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Features
Return to the Land of Juche Korea!
by Dermot Hudson
I visited the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) from the 11th to the 18th April. I was the first British citizen to visit the DPRK for five years. The last time I was in the DPRK was in October 2019. For several years it was not possible to travel to the DPRK because the border was closed at the end of January 2020 as a countermeasure against COVID-19. Only recently has the DPRK started allowing groups of visitors into the country. Some anti-COV- ID-19 measures were apparent when we arrived such as staff spraying sanitiser onto our hands when we arrived in the hotel.
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A new take on Marx
Review by David Matters
Modern Political Economy – A New Coursebook by Cheng Enfu, Feng Jinhua, Ma Yan and Ding Xiaoqin. Canut International publishers 2023, £42.99.
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