National News
Labour wins while protest parties surge ahead
by John Miles, Sputnik
Labour, as expected, ended 14 years of Tory government on 4th July but independent and minor party candidates performed strongly in the general election amid a surge of anti-Establishment political sentiment. The trend was perhaps best exemplified by the strong performance of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party on a pledge to reduce net migration to the UK.
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Camden Action for Palestine!
by New Worker correspondent
Activists from the Camden Palestine Solidarity Campaign marched from Camden Town to a Barclays Bank in Central London to demand it ceases its massive loans and investments to the criminal Israeli state.
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Early Prison Release Faces Challenges
by Mary Manley, Sputnik
Labour’s new justice secretary says jails have been operating at 99 per cent capacity since the start of last year.
So, in an effort to combat overcrowding, the UK will plan to release thousands of prisoners at the start of September. Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood says her plan would allow some prisoners to be released after they have served just 40 per cent of their sentence in England and Wales, rather than the current 50 per cent
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
In December 2019 the SNP secured 48 of Scotland’s 59 Westminster parliamentary seats with the Tories on six, Liberal Democrats four and Labour with a solitary one.
In November 2022, in the aftermath of the ruling of the Supreme Court that she did not have the power to hold another independence referendum, the then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she would use the next General Election as a de facto referendum.
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International News
Biden steps down – a desperate decision
by Chen Qingqing, Global Times
US President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he would drop his re-election bid and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to take his place amid growing concerns within the Democratic Party following the latest television debate between Biden and Republican candidate Donald Trump. Some say this decision was made in a desperate situation, saying that by replacing Biden with Harris, the Democrats might still have a glimmer of hope to win this presidential election.
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Biden’s legacy is genocide
by Ed Newman , Radio Havana Cuba
Human rights groups and social media have reacted to Joe Biden’s decision to cancel his re-election bid, saying he will be remembered by how he facilitated the Israeli regime’s ongoing war of genocide against Palestinians
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Trump shooting: workers need an independent struggle
by Monica Moorehead, Workers World (USA)
The attempted assassination of US presidential candidate Donald Trump during a 13th July campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has taken centre stage in the 2024 elections. In the coming days and weeks, there will be much speculation about whether the Secret Service was derelict in its duty for allowing this shooting to take place.
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Kiev loses land as well as Biden
SouthFront
The Ukrainian regime suffered a major strategic defeat in Washington when its best friend Biden dropped out of the presidential race. Trump’s chances to come back to office are growing. He has already promised to end the war in Ukraine immediately after his victory.
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Media hypocrisy in Gaza and Ukraine
Workers World (USA)
Truth is the first casualty of imperialist war. The imperialist ruling class owns the corporate media. The government and the military serve that same class interest. It should be no surprise that when the politicians and generals lie, the media repeats it
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Features
A look behind British and French elections
The following is a report by the Coordination of Communist Nuclei in Spain, giving its analysis of the recent elections in Britain and France.
The respective victories of the Labour Party in Britain and of the New Popular Front in France must be understood as an immense vote of popular rejection of governments which, in the midst of a gigantic crisis and as direct representatives of the imperialist big bourgeoisie, have carried out the harshest policies against the working class. In this sense, the electoral results are the continuation on a national level of what happened in the recent European elections in which the low rate of participation in voting has reflected a high degree of social unrest.
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NAT O: Notorious, Aggressive and Threatening
by John Maryon,
The American-led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, was founded in April 1949. As an imperialist military alliance it was seen as a clear threat to peace in Europe by the Soviet Union. In response when West Germany joined a few years later the Warsaw Pact was established, to counter the new threat in May 1955. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union the Warsaw Pact was dissolved in February 1991. NATO, however, continued to exist.
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Gluten-free blogger shares her tips on Vietnam
by Quỳnh Anh, VNS
After many years living in Hànội, Klair Simpson has launched a blog highlighting Vietnamese cuisine worldwide, while also sharing valuable insights to help gluten-intolerant individuals enjoy fantastic culinary experiences.
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