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New Israel onslaught in Lebanon

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Battles rage across the Lebanese frontier as Hezbollah militiamen fight to drive Israeli forces back over the border. The Israelis say they’re carrying out “limited, localised and targeted” raids against Hezbollah inside Lebanon. But the Israeli incursion and the continued bombing of Beirut and other civilian targets in Lebanon looks more like the start of yet another Zionist attempt to crush all Arab resistance to their dream of a “Greater Israel”.

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A not so civil Service

by New Worker correspondent

Cleaners and caterers at the East Kilbride branch of the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office near Glasgow (the place where colonial civil servants get their pensions from) are involved in strike action against their outsourced employer. The strikers, belonging to PCS, the main civil service union, took two days of strike action on three days last week, and with a similar pattern until 22 October.

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Editorial

Stop Israel now!

The Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon and the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah – it’s all part of the spiralling violence, that’s clearly been incited by the imperialists, that threatens to plunge the entire Middle East into a sea of blood. British jets shamefully joined the Americans in trying to shield Israel from the wrath of Iran last week while doing nothing to halt the Israeli terror campaign that’s been unleashed against Arab civilian targets in Palestine and Lebanon. The imperialists do nothing because they want to maintain their grip of the oil fields of Arabia. For decades the Big Oil corporations have been protected by Western forces, the Arab auxiliaries provided the oil princes and, of course, the Israelis. While the Zionists and the feudal Arab princes get a cut for doing the Americans’ bidding all the Palestinians get is death and destruction.

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