National News
First Time on Strike
by New Worker correspondent
Some 400 workers are about to embark on the first ever strike at their 155-year-old employer. They work on Nature, Britain’s leading scientific weekly, and many other journals such as the British Dental Journal. Founded in 1869 by Macmillan, it is now owned by the German multi-national Springer Nature empire.
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Back Page News
by New Worker correspondent
Readers who turned to the New Worker hoping to escape the Euros had better look away now as we turn attention to efforts by the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) seeking to have their hours of work reduced. In particular they oppose plans by the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) to hold an expanded 32-team Club World Cup competition in the USA during June and July next year, a decision arrived at without negotiation with player unions.
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New spy hysteria over badges
by Mark Blacklock, Global Times
Spy paranoia has gone to Britain’s head – now it is afraid of cap badges. Some time ago I wrote an article highlighting the West’s burgeoning paranoia over Chinese spies and made a light-hearted comment speculating whether the next item to be banned on suspicion of having an espionage dual purpose might be chopsticks.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
Although Labour still looks set for a landslide at the general election with a 20 point lead over the Tories in the opinion polls the picture in Scotland is more nuanced with Labour’s lead over the nationalists dropping while one poll, conducted by Survation, puts the SNP seven per cent ahead of Labour in votes.
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International News
Ukraine: Graham gives the game away
Global Times
Recently, senior US politician and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham unabashedly stated in a media interview that Ukraine holds business value for the USA. He claimed that there are “10 to 12 trillion dollars of critical minerals” in Ukraine, and the primary reason for supporting Ukraine is to seize these critical minerals by defeating Russia on the battlefield. Furthermore, he advocated for seizing and using frozen Russian assets in Europe and the USA.
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Biden stands alone over Israel
by Ramzy Baroud , People’s World (USA)
On 6th June Spain joined South Africa’s case at the United Nations’ top court, accusing Israel of genocide.
This move followed a decision by Madrid and two other western European capitals – Dublin and Oslo – to recognise the State of Palestine, thus breaking ranks with a long-established USled Western policy.
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Russia signs new pact with DPRK
by Dharya Maheshwari, Sputnik
Russian President Vladimir Putin and north Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement during summit-level talks in Pyongyang on Wednesday. The Russian president said that the new comprehensive strategic pact, which includes prospects for military-technical co-operation, would serve as the “backbone” of bilateral ties in the long term. The Russian president arrived in Pyongyang for a two-day state visit late on Tuesday evening. This is his first trip to the DPR Korea since 2000.
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France revolts
by Guillermo Alvarado, Radio Havana Cuba
The French Revolution of liberty, equality and fraternity, which had such a profound impact at the time in Latin America and the Caribbean, is on the verge of falling into the hands of the darkest forces of the racist, xenophobic and fascist extreme right
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Features
Stalin: The Foundations of Leninism
by J Sykes, Fightback News (USA)
The Foundations of Leninism is a collection of lectures given by JV Stalin to Sverdlov University in 1924, shortly after the death of Lenin in January of that year. The nine lectures that make up the book cover topics of history, methodology, style of work, theory, and strategy and tactics, as well as exposition and analysis of particular issues, such as the party, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the national question, and the peasant question. On each of these topics, Stalin lays out the Leninist position succinctly and concretely.
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With One Hand Waving Free
Book Review by Ben Soton
With One Hand Waving Free: a novel by Ken Fuller. Independently published, 2024. Pbk, 351pp, RRP: £12.99.
With One Hand Waving Free is the title of Ken Fuller’s latest book. Regular readers will remember him as the creator of the Red Button trilogy set in the heady days of the early 20th Century. This work, however, is set in the 1970s. Roger Drummond is happily working in a bus garage when offered a managerial position in a medical supply firm Merrit &Thwaite that is thrust upon him through his socially ambitious wife. Drummond, who also spends some of his spare time in left-wing bookshops, resembles a combination of Reginald Perrin and Citizen Smith.
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Economics for the 21st Century
Book Review by John Maryon
Socialism and Economic Cybernetics: towards a manifesto by Dr Elena Veduta. Second Wave Publications, 2014. Pbk, 48pp; RRP £10 (but £7.50 including p&p for New Worker readers).
Professor Elena Veduta is a prolific author and celebrated cybernetic economist working at the Lomonosov Moscow State University as Head of the Department of Strategic Planning and Economic Policy. She is also Head of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Veduta is also a true Marxist. Her views contrast with the reactionary academics of the school of market socialism that emerged in the mid-1950s as Khrushchev’s revision started to undermine socialist development in the USSR.
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