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Palestinians fight on as Israel spurns ceasefire offer

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Joe Biden is calling a ceasefire in Gaza based on what the Americans claim is an Israeli plan to end the fighting while Chinese President Xi Jinping calls for a peace conference aimed at resolving the Israel/Palestine conflict and ending the “tremendous suffering” in Gaza.

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Diane Abbott stands her ground

by New Worker correspondent

Elections are often brutal events, and the present one is no exception. Mud-slinging and dirty tricks are a daily occurrence with policy differences taking a back seat. All this is in the cause of seeking Labour Party candidacies.

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Editorials

Week two of the election race

It’s round two of the election campaign with Labour still streets ahead of the Tories in the opinion polls despite Sunak’s best efforts to defend his record on the TV “leaders” debate between Starmer and Sunak this week. Diane Abbott has turned the tables on the Starmerites and is now, once again, the official Labour candidate in Hackney. Nigel Farage has thrown his hat into the ring in Clacton to return to the helm of his Reform Party that one pollster puts only two points behind the Conservatives. The Liberal-Democrats and the Greens are buoyed at the response they’re getting in the seats they’re hoping to bag in July.

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