National News
Stop Banking on Genocide!
by New Worker correspondent
Activists from Palestine Solidarity Campaign branches in Camden and Islington marched from Camden Town to the Sadler’s Wells Theatre in Islington, North London, to call on the theatre to stop taking sponsorship from Barclays Bank while a very small counter-demonstration of around ten Zionists was largely ignored by the public. Last weekend’s protest was part of the ongoing Boycott Barclays campaign which has targeted the bank for its major lending, investment and business interests which help to support the Israeli economy and its powerful military machine.
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NHS Battles
by New Worker correspondent
Two comparatively small disputes in the NHS are worth noting as they are merely the tip of the iceberg, and have implications for how the New Labour government will resolve them. In London, nurses at Guys’ & St Thomas’ Trust, which is one of the biggest in the UK, are holding protests across London over the issue of unsustainable workloads.
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The Jobs Market
by New Worker correspondent
We are indebted to Personnel Today for drawing our attention to the fact that nearly half the job adverts in Britain offer “benefits” which are nothing of the sort, but merely statutory requirements or basic rights.
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No British arms for Israel!
by New Worker correspondent
Palestinian solidarity activists took to the streets of Manchester on Sunday to demand justice for Palestine and a global boycott of Israel. How many tens of thousands of Palestinian lives must be lost in Gaza? How many hospitals, schools and homes must be destroyed before the world does anything at all? It’s not just the last 11 months and Israel’s mass murder of over 20,000 children. Israel has been stealing Palestinian Arab land for the last 76 years, ethnically cleansing the Palestinian population and continuing their illegal and barbaric military occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
The SNP’s 90th Annual Conference has taken place in the lavish surroundings o f Edinburgh’s International Conference Centre. But there were no reports of delegates chanting John Swinney’s name as they used to do with Nicola Sturgeon, who was conspicuous in her absence.
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International News
The lie machine turns on China
by Jerry Grey, Global Times
The USA not only misreads China, but it also misinterprets and misinforms about China too. The USA sees China as a threat but just like Vietnam, Syria, or any other country the Americans have invaded, China has never been a threat to anyone in the USA, unless we consider the threat is to US primacy
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Macron aligns with fascists to block Popular Front government
by CJ Atkins, People’s World (USA)
Almost two months after the New Popular Front won France’s parliamentary elections, President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled a new tactic in his effort to delay allowing the left-wing coalition to form a government: joining forces with the fascists
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On the deaths of hostages killed in Gaza
The following is a statement by Khalil Al-Hayya, Deputy Head of Hamas in Gaza, to Al Jazeera concerning the six hostages killed in Gaza
The six [Israeli] prisoners and others could have been released to their families through a real exchange deal while still alive. But the insistence of the occupation army, Netanyahu, and his extremist government is the reason these prisoners lost their lives, along with dozens killed directly by the occupiers through bombardment, targeting those who were with them, guarding them or living with them .
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Forbidden Paradise
by Guillermo Alvarado, Radio Havana Cuba
Thousands of people, almost all of African origin, gather in Morocco or the Canary Islands in the hope of being able to enter the Spanish mainland, to seek better living conditions or escape violence or the ravages of climate change in their countries.
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Russian surge on Donbas front
South Front
Unable to advance on the Russian Kursk front the Ukrainians are now being driven out of their remaining positions in the Donbas. While Russian drones and missiles are pounding rear facilities throughout the country their air defences are foiling Ukrainian drone raids over the Russian border regions.
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Reactionaries set trends in social media
by Roberto Morejón , Radio Havana Cuba
The global right resorts to cognitive warfare, cyberwarfare and social networks to spread its campaigns of distortion, to discredit progressive leaders and processes, and even to stage “soft” coups – those that no longer use the traditional military barracks.
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Features
China’s staunch role as defender of world peace
by Ruan Zongze , The author is Consul-General of the People’s Republic of China in Brisbane , Global Times
Why has Beijing become the stage for peace? Why has China’s mediation been so successful? What new ideas and results have emerged? China actively advocates and implements the Global Security Initiative. On issues of peace and security, China has the best record of all major powers. China is also the only country in the world that has enshrined the path of peaceful development in its constitution and the only nuclear power that has committed to not use nuclear weapons first
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The Day America’s Nuclear Monopoly Ended
by Ilya Tsukanov, Sputnik
Seventy-five years ago, on 29th August 1949, the USSR tested its first atomic weapon, becoming the second country in the world after the USA to master the fearsome technology. Sputnik explores the Soviet atomic bomb’s development, its military and geopolitical significance, and some of the long-held myths surrounding the project.
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Revolutionary Democracy
Review by Robin MacGregor
Revolutionary Democracy Third Series, Volume One, number 1 (April 2024). £7.50 including P&P from NCP Lit, PO Box 73, London SW11 2PQ
The latest edition of Revolutionary Democracy, the twice yearly Indian Marxist-Leninist journal, has appeared in its regular tripartite format of articles on contemporary Indian politics, materials reflecting the views of International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Political Organisations (ICMLPO) and archival materials.
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