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UN DEMANDS END TO ISRAELI OCCUPATION

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

The UN General Assembly has passed a resolution demanding an end to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories while Arab countries send medical aid to Lebanon to treat the thousands injured by booby-trapped pagers. And Hezbollah vows to pay Israel back for the wave of terror attacks that’s killed dozens of their supporters and injured many more over the past few days.

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The State of the Unions

by New Worker correspondent

Now that the 156th Trades Union Congress is well and truly done and dusted we can take stock of not just the event itself but the state of trade unions in Britain.

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Editorials

Brighton rocks…

...and no more when the TUC is in town. These days the TUC’s annual conference is little more than a talking shop for the union establishments and Brighton was no exception. Every year the assorted full-time officers get together for this annual jamboree to formulate policies that reflect the views of the senior full-timers and the lay officers that lead the factions that run our unions today. In the coming months motions which reflect the views of the bureaucrats will doubtless end up as material for mediocre TUC campaigns and lobbies – those that genuinely reflect the demands of the street on pay, terms and conditions and social justice will be sidelined or ignored.

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No arms for Israel!

While the Zionists may talk about teaching Hezbollah a lesson with their pager bomb terror campaign the only thing they have actually taught the Lebanese resistance is to never again compromise their security with electronic equipment made in the American empire. Meanwhile Britain continues to aid and abet the Israeli war-criminals by supplying sophisticated arms to the Zionist state.

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