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ISRAELI TERROR SWEEPS WEST BANK

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

A new wave of terror is sweeping across the West Bank as Israeli troops and Zionist settler gangs rampage across the occupied territory. Street battles continue through- out the Gaza Strip as the Palestinian resistance fight to drive the Israeli invaders out of the Palestinian enclave.

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Please Sir, Can I have More

by New Worker correspondent

The holiday season may be over, but for many workers that was a purely theoretical point. A recent report from the Trades Union Congress shows that over a million workers simply do not get the holiday time they are entitled to. The Holidays With Pay Act was one of the benefits graciously bestowed on the working classes by the Chamberlain Government in 1938. One of the main benefactors was Billy Butlin. whose holiday camps were founded in time to soak up a large amount of workers’ holiday pay.

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Editorial

When the going gets tough…

...the TUC gets going – often out of the back door under a cover of the usual platitudes the full-time officers reserve for times like these. The furore over the pensioners’ winter fuel cuts in the House of Commons and at TUC conference in Brighton may have reflected the anger on the street at this blatant attack on one of the most vulnerable sections of society but it also showed the weakness of the labour movement, that was unable to halt or water down the demand of the Starmer government to means-test the pensioners’ allowance that some say could lead to over 4,000 excess deaths due to hyperthermia in the winter months.

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