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Battles rage as Israel threatens Lebanon

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Fighting continues across the Gaza Strip despite an Israeli “tactical pause” in parts of southern Gaza allegedly to free up a backlog of humanitarian aid deliveries destined for desperate Palestinians trapped in their beleaguered enclave.

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Unions and the Election

by New Worker correspondent

This election is so interesting that in the online edition of the Guardian on Tuesday afternoon, only one out of 10 most-read stories was about the forthcoming vote. On the Scottish Herald it was two out of 10. So it is to be hoped readers will not be put off with the contents of this page.

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Editorial

Round four in the election stakes

We’re passed the half-way mark in the election race. The mainstream party leaders stomp the streets to confine the debate to which one of them is better at administering the bourgeois state that the ruling class themselves pay so little to maintain, while on the fringe the left-social democratic outsiders scrabble for a protest vote that has failed to take the discussion beyond the parameters set by the ruling class on NATO, Trident, Israel and the European Union.

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