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Battles rage as hopes fade for new Gaza truce

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Hopes for a new cease-fire deal are fading as Israeli jets and helicopter gunships pound Rafah as Palestinian commandos battle to stave off Israeli troops in the streets of the southern city in the Gaza Strip.

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State of the Nation

by New Worker correspondent

As the General Election campaign steps up we are indebted to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) for shedding light on the state of the nation after 14 years of Tory rule. Their recent report, carried out just before the election was called clearly shows the levels of hardship in Britain. Almost five million households find themselves having to go without essentials. That does not mean cutting down on pizza deliveries but having to cut back on showers and having to skip meals entirely.

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Editorial

Bandwagon blues

Week three of a lacklustre campaign livened up only by all sorts of blunders in the Sunak camp and the news that one pollster now puts the Faragist Reform Party one point ahead of the Tories in the race to Number 10. Labour still seems heading for a landslide with a 20-plus lead in the opinion polls while the Liberal-Democrats move to woo the Remainers still in the Conservative camp. On the left front, Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign managers say he’s running neck-and-neck with Labour in his battle to remain in parliament as an independent and George Galloway fights to keep the Rochdale seat he won in February on his Workers Party of Britain platform.

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