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Taking Action for Palestine!

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Imperialist leader Joe Biden vows to continue providing “ iron clad ” support for Israel as the Zionists press on with their genocidal war against the Palestinian Arabs of the Gaza Strip. Intense street battles continue in Rafah, in the south of the Palestinian enclave, as Israeli troops advance into the city packed with terrified civilians. Meanwhile the Arab League summit meeting in Bahrain has ended with the Arab leaders calling for the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel until the establishment of a Palestinian state.

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Capitalism at Work in Glasgow

by New Worker correspondent

The Annual General Meeting of the Lloyds Banking Group took place at the Armadillo in Glasgow earlier this month. Largely due to inertia this correspondent has a very modest small shareholding as a result of the demutualisation of the Leeds Permanent Building Society in the 1980s which allowed him to observe how British finance capital works, or pretends to work, along with about 300 others knocking about in a 1,120 capacity auditorium.

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Editorial

Singing in the Rain

Rishi Sunak vowed to “fight for every vote” as he called a snap general election for July during a downpour outside Downing Street on Wednesday. He certainly needs to, given the 20-point lead Labour currently has in the opinion polls.

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