National News
Town Hall Wars
by New Worker correspondent
Despite the distractions of the General Election a number of major industrial disputes are bubbling away that will loom large in the in-tray of whomever forms a government.
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In the NHS
by New Worker correspondent
Health unions are up in arms about the fact that the Government have failed to make a pay offer for 2024/5. This should all have been done and dusted two months ago, at the start of the financial year .
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Trade unions...
by New Worker correspondent
…do not seem to be very satisfactory employers these days. Last week we reported that staff at the University and College Union (UCU) voted to take strike action during the union’s conference at Bournemouth. After peace talks failed this resulted in action taking place that resulted in the second day of its conference being abandoned. Unite regional officer Rose Keeping said “The UCU’s undermining of existing industrial recognition agreements, failure to agree key working principles and heavy-handed use of disciplinary procedures have left our members with little choice but to take strike action.”
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
The first televised debate of the Scottish party leaders (minus the angry Greens) took place on Monday, depriving Scottish viewers of Love Island. This was an occasion for the SNP and Labour to gang up on the Conservatives and argue about which of them was best at getting rid of the Tories. The issues raised included the cost of living, oil and gas licences, EU membership and the NHS, matters on which Labour and the SNP are divided
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International News
China nabs British spies
by Chen Qingqing and Xu Keyue, Global Times
As China’s international status and influence continue to grow, Western countries are employing increasingly complex methods of infiltration. This requires China to further enhance its anti-espionage education and the public awareness.
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Exhibition honours China-born Scottish Olympian
by Lu Wenao, Global Times
An exhibition commemorating Scottish Olympic champion Eric Liddell opened on Saturday at the Tianjin Sports Museum in North China’s Tianjin Municipality, as 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the Tianjin-born athlete’s victory at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
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Trump: The convict
by Guillermo Alvarado, Radio Havana Cuba
The inevitable candidate for the presidency of the United States of America for the Republican Party, Donald Trump, is already a convicted criminal after a court found him guilty of 30 crimes and he is now waiting to know what his sentence will be.
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Scott Ritter stopped from flying to Russia
Sputnik
Scott Ritter was held at JFK airport in New York on 3rd June to stop him attending a major conference in Russia. The former Marine Corps intelligence officer and Sputnik contributor was held by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers as he was leaving to attend the 2024 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).
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ANC wins election but loses parliamentary majority
by Pedro M Otero Cabañas, Radio Havana Cuba
The results of last week’s general elections in South Africa confirmed two relevant facts. Over 16 million people voted in this year’s South African elections in a turnout of 58.64 per cent. The African National Congress (ANC) party, in power for 30 years, did not achieve the parliamentary majority to govern. The ANC won the most votes – but not enough to give them an overall majority.
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More lies from the Zelensky regime
South front
The Ukrainian regime is actively preparing for the forthcoming peace conference on Ukraine, which is to be held in Switzerland in mid-June. While Zelensky travels around the world, begging for support, Ukrainian propaganda has gone full blast in an attempt to remind Kiev’s sponsors of the ‘valiant struggle of this most democratic country defending world peace from the terrible Russians’
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Features
Ukraine: NATO in deep crisis as the dangers to Zelensky grow
by Theo Russell
The current direction of the war in Ukraine has created an acute crisis in Western capitals, above all in Washington, and the position of Vladimir Zelensky, the president elected on a promise to end the war in Eastern Ukraine, now hangs by a thread.
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The Five Biggest Anti-Communist Lies
by Nikos Mottas, IDoC
History, they say, is written by the victors, even the temporary ones. The dominance of counter-revolution and the overthrow of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the early 1990s was the trigger for the escalation of anti-communism at all levels. Through bourgeois historiography and the mainstream media, a series of fallacious theories have been developed, aimed at slandering the 20th Century socialism and demonising MarxistLeninist ideology. Here are five of the most common anticommunist lies:….
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More Monkey Business
Film review by Ben Soton
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes continues the series of films made between 2011 and 2017. Simians still live within the ruins of human civilisation; whilst the remaining humans have been reduced to a feral state and have lost the power of speech. Despite the absence of Andy Serkis, who provided much of the work behind the facial expressions in the previous films, the acting and special effects are of a high standard.
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