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Hezbollah pounds Israel after peace talks collapse!

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

The Lebanese front exploded last weekend with Israeli “pre-emptive” air raids on Lebanese resistance bases on Sunday, which were speedily followed by Hezbollah missile attacks on Zionist bases in northern Israel and the Golan Heights.

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That’s Entertainment!

by New Worker correspondent

The Musicians’ Union (MU) has recently announced it has now got a membership of 35,000, a healthy density as there are 43,300 professional musicians in Britain, although it failed to mention its peak membership was 40,000 in 1990.

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Editorial

A bridge too far

When Rishi Sunak called the snap election in July some Tories said he did it to ensure that Britain had a leader who could step in to cover Joe Biden as the head of the “free world” during the run-up to the American presidential election in November. We will never know whether Sunak actually believed this nonsense which, in any case, is now academic as both of them will soon depart, somewhat unwillingly, from the political stage this year. It does, however, reflect the delusions of grandeur of the British ruling class who believe that the American sphere of influence across the globe constitutes the ‘free world’ and that Britain is the second-in-command in policing it.

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