National News
Good intentions alone not always enough
by Mark Blacklock , Global Times
When Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Prime Minister Keir Starmer on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro on Monday, they spoke through interpreters, but were their words tentatively speaking the language of rapprochement?
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Arms and the Workers
by New Worker correspondent
When the TUC published its commentary on the recent Budget, it broadly welcomed all the alleged goodies the Chancellor of the Exchequer pulled out of her hat. It went through the Budget outlining most of its provisions in a 2,000- word statement with as much detail as could be expected on the day it was delivered.
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Bristol students stand by Palestine
by New Worker correspondent
Students from the University of Bristol (UoB) working with local Peace and Palestine campaigners braved snow-showers to carry out a daring banner-drop from the historic Victorian Cabot Tower on Bandon Hill in Bristol this week
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Let Our Fire Engine Through!
by New Worker correspondent
Members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) joined Palestine Solidarity Campaign supporters for an evening protest at the Israeli Embassy in London on Monday with the demand “Let Our Fire Engine Through!”.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
Labour grandees mourned the passing of John Prescott, the former deputy leader in Blairite days, who died this week after a lengthy illness. Though a pillar of the old right-wing Labour bloc that dominated Labour throughout the latter part of the 20th Century, Prescott wasn’t all bad. He eventually denounced Britain’s role in the Iraq war He became a fierce critic of Israel and defended the then Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, when he was flayed by the Blairites and Zionists in the Parliamentary Labour Party
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International News
Trump Team to write off ‘Project Ukraine’
by Svetlana Ekimenko, Sputnik
President-elect Donald Trump repeated his pledge to end the Ukraine conflagration as he addressed a gala organised by the America First Policy Institute at his Mara-Lago resort on 15th November, saying that “the conflict has got to stop”.
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A step in the right direction
by New Worker correspondent
Relations with People’s China have been put back on an even keel following Sir Keir Starmer’s talks with the Chinese President Xi Jinping in Rio de Janeiro this week. We may not be back to the ‘golden era’ when David Cameron was at the helm but the talks, on the sidelines of the G20 Leaders’ Summit, are certainly pointing in the right direction. .
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The Lebanese city Israel destroyed
by Daria Aslamova in Nabatieh, Pravda.ru
We are following an ambulance through the completely deserted city of Nabatieh, where only a few families remain. The city has been completely destroyed. We are going to the city centre to film what has been left of it. We are following rescuers to have at least some hope that we are not going to be bombed.
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Britain’s hand in the Ukraine war
South Front
The full-fledged war in Ukraine has been ongoing for more than 1,000 days. According to various estimates, the Ukrainian army has lost almost a million soldiers killed or wounded, and around 15 million people have fled the country. The national debt has grown to about $14 billion. A third of Ukraine’s entire energy system has been destroyed.
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Features
What are you worth?
by A Caruthers and Anna Pha, Guardian (Australian communist weekly)
Marx wrote extensively on the relationship between wages and prices. He showed that the relationship between workers and their employer is that of a buyer and seller. The employer buys and workers sell their la- bour power ie the ca- pacity to labour, not only simple physical labour, but all forms of labour – skilled and unskilled, mental and physical.
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