National News
Massive protest in Liverpool calls for arms embargo on Israel
by Ed Newman, Radio Havana Cuba
A massive crowd of protesters gathered in Liverpool last weekend calling on the government of Keir Starmer to impose a full embargo on arms sales to Israel, almost one year into the regime’s genocidal war in Gaza. Protesters gathered on Saturday near Lime Street railway station to march toward King’s Dock, where Labour Party delegates were gathering for their first annual conference since taking power after the July general election. The Liverpool rally was the first pro-Palestine national march to be staged outside London. In the capital, hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in weekly protests against Israel’s genocidal war since October 2023.
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On the pay front
by New Worker correspondent
On Teesside 150 workers belonging to GMB took weekend strike action in pursuit of a pay claim, accusing Tata Consumer Products, owners of Tetley Tea, of paying poverty pay. This is a company which has both an on-site food bank at Teesside and a global profit of nearly £8 billion.
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Equal Pay Battles
by New Worker correspondent
Fashion retailer Next (the one for people who cannot afford John Lewis) is threatening to close some of its stores because female staff had the impertinence to put in a claim for the largely female store workers to receive equal pay matching that of the mostly male workers who work in the chain’s warehouse. An Employment Tribunal ruled in their favour resulting in management’s threat of closure. In response Management threatened to close stores which would be no longer “individually profitable” and announced an appeal.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
Tuesday saw Sir Keir Starmer finally announce that the much-heralded GB Energy, the planned publicly owned organisation, will be based in Aberdeen after weeks of denial about its location. This important fact obviously had to be kept under wraps, so that there was something positive of substance to announce in Starmer’s keynote speech to the Labour Party conference.
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International News
Take action now!
Global Times
It’s time for the West to change mind-set and actions in light of the global climate crisis. Recently, Ecuador has experienced its worst drought in 61 years, while several European countries are facing serious natural disasters, with floods and wildfires wreaking havoc. This serves as a stark reminder of the climate crisis for all of humanity. Climate issues have repeatedly been a central topic at multilat- eral meetings. And only last week leaders participating in the Summit for the Future at the UN headquarters in New York warned of growing mistrust between nations as climate-fuelled disasters mount .
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Zionist quagmire – sinking deeper
by Sara Flounders, Workers World (USA)
In a blasting news interview on Israel’s Channel 12 on 15th September, Major-General Israel Ziv, the army’s former head of operations in Gaza, asserted that the Zionist military is stuck in Gaza and has suffered significant losses during its 11-month offensive in the besieged Strip. Ziv stated that Israel “must withdraw immediately” and is “bleeding and trapped in a dire quagmire”.
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Israel: dying from a thousand cuts
by Mary Manley , Sputnik
Dozens of Israeli warplanes struck southern Lebanon last weekend. In retaliation about 150 rockets, missiles and other Lebanese resistance projectiles were fired onto Israeli territory overnight on Saturday and early Sunday. Thousands of Israelis took cover in bomb shelters as a result, as homes near Haifa were destroyed. Israel and Hezbollah have now entered a stage in their nearly year-long conflict that reports say is verging on a full-out war.
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Ukraine pays for strategic mistakes
South Front
The war in Ukraine is gaining momentum. Zelensky is travelling in the US trying his best to gain attention and enlist more support from the West. But Washington and its puppets in Europe are yet to allow strikes with their long-range missiles on Russian territory. Ukrainian pilots are not competent to fly foreign F-16 fighters in real battles, while no NATO weapons can change the power balance on Ukrainian battlefields.
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Mass protests to get Macron out
Radio Havana Cuba
Tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets across Paris and other French cities to demand President Emmanuel Macron’s resignation and impeachment.
The massive demonstrations took place across France after Macron named a new government led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Saturday, several weeks after an inconclusive parliamentary election.
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Features
Zelensky’s illegitimacy
by our Ukrainian correspondent Alex Miller
The famous French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau once said that “the Tyrant is one who, against the laws, proclaims himself a ruler acting in accordance with the laws. The Despot is one who places himself above the laws themselves. Thus, a Tyrant may not be a Despot, but a Despot is always Tyrant.”
The President is a person elected by voting, but the absence of an electoral process clearly indicates that we are talking about a Tyrant or Despot.
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Three Cs for better UK-China relations
Global Times
Recently, there have been increasing discussions in China and other countries regarding “whether there will be new changes in China-UK relations”. This has much to do with the recent dialogue and exchanges between high-level Chinese and British officials.
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Teaching English in Vietnam
by Ray Riches, VS
Many young or middle-aged people get up every morning, sit in traffic or on a train and dream of an adventure travelling through Asia. Many decide teaching could be a means to fund the adventure of a lifetime and every year, over 50,000 foreigners move to Vietnam to teach English. But teaching English is not as easy as it seems.
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