National News
A band of brothers
by New Worker correspondent
Unions are supposed to fight for workers against op- pressive bosses. These days they now face strike action by their own employees.
Earlier this year the University College Union had its annual conference cut short by its employees belonging to Unite taking a carefully timed strike. The Transport Salaried Staff Association (TSSA) has been embroiled in a particularly bitter dispute with employees belonging to GMB, (the main union for union full-timers). Here GMB accuses TSSA’s new management of mistreating its workers and going back on promised reforms after the former General Secretary departed under a cloud. In turn the new TSSA manage- ment accuses GMB of seek- ing to control the union after merger talks broke down.
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Gaza – Yemen – Ukraine! Ceasefire Now!
by New Worker correspondent
Activists from the International Ukraine Anti Fascist Solidarity campaign (IUAFS) joined the National Palestine march in Central London today with placards making the connections between the wars waged by NATO imperialism in Gaza, Ukraine and Yemen. They received a warm welcome from the protesters and dozens of people took photos and videos.
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Chinese EVs an asset for the UK
by James Smith, Global Times
Last week the Chinese car manufacturer, Chery, announced the launch of its latest model, the Omoda, in the British market. The firm has set up 60 dealerships to sell its vehicles in the UK, and its dealer network is set to expand to 100, according to the Financial Times.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
SNP MPs closed ranks with the other opposition parties last week to vote against the Government’s controversial plans to end winter fuel payments for most pensioners. Means-testing will now cut £1.4bn off the welfare bill this year and go towards filling in the £22bn 'black hole' Labour says it inherited from the previous Tory government. It will mean the number of fuel payments will fall from 11.4 million to 1.5 million this winter
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International News
Israel: What’s behind the partial arms freeze
by Ilya Tsukanov , Sputnik
Israel has lashed out at the Starmer government for suspending 30 of the 350 arms export licenses to Israel over the “clear risk” that the weapons could be used to “commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law”.
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Britain’s hand in Ukraine war
by Oleg Burunov, Sputnik
Russia has repeatedly said that Western military aid to the Kiev regime would only add to the prolongation of the Ukraine conflict. And it’s safe to say that London is directly involved in hostilities against Moscow says military journalist, Alexey Borzenko.
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Anti-Fascists meet in Caracas
by Ed Newman, Radio Havana Cuba
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez welcomed hundreds of activists from around the world who gathered to kick off the first World Congress Against Fascism in Caracas this week.
The first World Anti-Fascism Congress brought together more than a thousand dele- gates from 95 countries around the world as the Venezuelan capital became the epicentre of the fight against fascism, neo-fascism, and all manifestations of hatred.
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Russians advance on Donbas front
Sputnik
The Russian army is punishing the Ukrainian Nazis on the frontlines, grinding down the Ukrainian defences on all fronts.
On 10th September the Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed control of four towns that were turned into important strongholds by the Ukrainian military in the Donbas.
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Features
Interview with a fugitive Ukrainian soldier
by New Worker special correspondent, Stella Khorosheva
This is an interview with a Ukrainian soldier Alexander Vsevolod, who escaped from a training camp for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Poland. He is currently living in hiding in Europe. The interview was conducted by a New Worker special correspondent, Stella Khorosheva, who works for the Italian news agency Sovranita Popolare. It contains shocking and horrific revelations about the treatment of Ukrainian conscripts and threats against their fami- lies, as well as claims that Poland is playing double game with its erstwhile ally Ukraine and recruit- ing agents in its armed forces on a large scale .
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Class struggle unionism and why we need it?
by Dave McKee , People’s Voice (Canada)
Communists have long championed class struggle unionism. We promote those labour organisations that maintain a class struggle orientation, including international ones like the World Federation of Trade Unions. And we call, always, for more and more and more class struggle unionism. But what does it mean?
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Ahead of the game
Film review by by Ben Soton
Firebrand: Alicia Vikander; Junia Rees; Ruby Ben- tall; director Karim Aïnouz; 121 mins
Every schoolboy and schoolgirl can remember the rhyme, Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived. This film is the story of Henry VIII’s sixth wife, Catherine Parr; the one who survived. It makes a change for a film to feature a wife of Henry VIII who is not Anne Boleyn; recall Anne of a Thousand Days (1970) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008).
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