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Gaza: Stop the fighting – End the War!

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Western leaders are making frantic calls to stay the hand of the Iranians who have vowed to pay Israel back for the assassination in the Iranian capital of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh last month. The USA and three of their European minions, France, Italy and Germany, issued a joint statement calling for restraint while Keir Starmer urged Iran to “refrain” from attacking Israel during a phone call with Iran’s new president.

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What is behind the wave of far-right violence?

by New Worker correspondent

Serious rioting has taken place in English cities across the country, with scenes more familiar to Belfast: bricks and bottles thrown at police and police vehicles, and a police station wrecked. And the groups involved do in fact have connections and common views with Loyalist organisations in Northern Ireland – the only other part of the UK where major violence broke out.

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Editorial

A dangerous escalation

The Ukrainian raid into southern Russia last week was clearly monitored and probably even directed by the NATO military advisors embedded in the Ukrainian army. The main target was the Kursk nuclear power station that the Ukrainians hoped to seize and then swap for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine that was liberated in 2022. Their secondary objective was to seize Russian land to swap for recent Russian gains in the Kharkov region of northern Ukraine.

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