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Resistance vows vengeance for death of their leaders!

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Arab resistance movements have vowed to avenge the deaths of their leaders in Beirut and Tehran this week.

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Take with one hand…

by New Worker correspondent

…while giving little with the other. Monday started off well with the announcement that the Government and the British Medical Association had agreed on a 22.3 per cent pay rise for junior doctors over two years in England. It was not to last, however, and not just because the award, while still substantial, was below the 35 per cent to restore the value of pre 2008 salaries.

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Editorial

No end in sight...

The Middle East is now on the brink of all-out war following this week’s targeted killings of Palestinian and Lebanese resistance leaders in back-to-back Israeli air strikes in Beirut and Tehran. Some say this is what the Israeli leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, wants to stave off the Gaza cease-fire he fears would split his coalition and force him to call fresh elections he almost certainly would lose. Bowing out while facing bribery, fraud and breach of trust charges is not how Netanyahu wants to be remembered. He wants to end his days covered in Zionist glory as the man who built ‘Greater Israel’ and brought the Palestinians to their knees. But he’s failed, so far, on all counts.

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