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HEZBOLLAH STRIKES BACK

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Hezbollah has struck back hitting Haifa and Tel Aviv following devastating Israeli air-raids on Lebanon that threaten to plunge the entire region into a sea of blood. Hezbollah rockets rained down on military targets in northern Israel including Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv and a strategic military base in Haifa this week in “strike for a strike” reprisals in defence of Lebanon and its people.

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NHS News

by New Worker correspondent

Monday saw the Royal College of Nursing announce that its members in England voted heavily against the 5.5 NHS pay award for 2024/25 which was the figure proposed by the NHS Pay Review Body (PRB) and was confirmed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer when Labour was still enjoying its brief honeymoon.

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Editorial

Empty words in Liverpool

Tales of penthouse suites, designer clothes and freebie specs have embarrassed Starmer & Co –much to the delight of the Tory press. Health Secretary Wes Streeting says he’s “proud of people who want to contribute, not just their time and volunteering, but their money to our politics. It is a noble pursuit just like giving to charity and we don’t recognise that enough. The alternative is we ask taxpayers to fund our politics. I’d think they’d rather their taxes went into the NHS and our schools or stayed in their own pockets”. Whether Lord Alli, whose generosity stretched for funding £5,000 worth of clothes for Starmer’s wife, really is an altruistic philanthropist remains a matter of opinion but it certainly provided an amusing diversion from the dreary spectacle of Labour Party conference in Liverpool.

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