National News
Palestinian flag over UK town halls
by Theo Russell
Sheffield City Council, along with several other cities in England and Scotland, marked the UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on 29th November by flying the Palestinian flag, following a request by the PCS Yorkshire & Northeast Home Office branch
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Stop arming Israel!
by New Worker correspondent
Over 150,000 demonstrators marched through central London last weekend to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza and a halt to British arms supplies to the Zionist state. “This weekend, we marched once again in solidarity with the Palestinian people,” said Jeremy Corbyn. The former Labour leader, who now heads the Independent Alliance bloc in the House of Commons, said: “We sent a message to our government: if you knowingly supply weapons to a government whose leader is wanted for war crimes, the long arm of international law will extend to you too.”
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
On St Andrew’s Day First Minister John Swinney attended the memorial service for Alex Salmond at the High Kirk on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. Devotees of his late predecessor greeted Swinney with boos and shouts of “traitor”. For Swinney this was an apt conclusion to a month of 15 council by-elections, none of which saw his party triumph. Most contests were caused by former councillors heading to Westminster. All figures refer to the percentages of the first round of counting.
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International News
Double-standards of the West
Global Times
On climate change the arrogance and double standards of the West is fully exposed. The achievements China has made in green transformation and addressing climate change are widely recognised around the world. Some Western media outlets have chosen to deliberately turn a blind eye to this however, persistently smearing China’s efforts with an extremely arrogant and narrow-minded attitude. This fully exposes the double standards of the West when it comes to environmental issues
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Syrian and Russian warplanes blast terrorist targets
by Ed Newman, Radio Havana Cuba
Russian and Syrian warplanes have struck sectarian Muslim militia positions in Syria’s north-western province of Idlib to repel an offensive by foreign-sponsored sectarian terrorists, as government forces press ahead with their counter-offensive
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West’s new proxy war spreads terror in Syria
by Mohamed Sharif ,Sputnik
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Al-Qaeda-allied terrorists, launched a surprise offensive from their stronghold in Syria’s north-western Idlib province over the weekend, seizing the major city of Aleppo and advancing southward into Hama before being halted by the Syrian Arab Army north of the provincial capital.
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South Korea’s martial law lifted
Xinhua
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has rescinded the martial law he imposed a few hours earlier following its rejection in the south Korean parliament.
At an emergency meeting of the 300-strong National Assembly, 172 opposition MPs as well as 18 from the ruling People Power Party rejected military rule.
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80 years of struggle
by New Worker correspondent
NCP leader Andy Brooks joined diplomats, politicians and businessmen at a reception in central London held to mark the 80th anniversary of Vietnam’s People’s Army. Do Minh Hung. the Vietnamese ambassador, and defence attaché Colonel Vu Vinh Ha welcomed guests to the event at the National Army Museum in Chelsea that included a video presentation and a Vietnamese buffet.
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Features
75 years of outstanding progress
by John Maryon ,
People’s China has been celebrating with its friends around the world, its foundation on 1st October 1949. Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the new republic in Tienanmen Square 75 years ago. It has enabled the Chinese people to embark upon an epic road that has led from extreme poverty and enormous hardships to rising prosperity in a powerful modern industrial state. Chinese society has been transformed under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
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An Israeli communist speaks
Communist Party of Israel
Last week while visiting the European Parliament on the invitation of the Portuguese Communist Party, Aida Touma-Sliman, a member of the communist-led Hadash bloc in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, was interviewed by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. She talks about the escalating repression against Palestinian Arabs in Israel, the Gaza war, Netanyahu’s plans for territorial conquest, and the shrinking space for left-wing forces in the country.
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Mao’s Quotations on the Market
by Robin McGregor
Sixty and a half years ago, in May 1964 to be precise, the first edition of Quotations from Chairman Mao, otherwise known as the ‘Little Red Book’ was first published.
This weekend a collection of some 200 editions and related material such as a set of printer’s stereotypes used to print the first edition in English is being sold by Peter Harrington, one of London’s grandest antiquarian booksellers at a book fair in Hong Kong.
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Are you not entertained?
Review by Ben Soton
Gladiator II (2024). Dir: Ridley Scott. Writers: David Scarpa, Peter Craig and David Franzoni. Stars: Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, Lior Raz, Derek Jacobi, Connie Nielsen and Denzel Washington. Rated 15; 140 mins
What did the Romans ever do for us? We remember the roads, the sanitation, law and order, and the monumental architecture that tourists still gape at to this day. But behind the facade of Greco-Roman civilisation there is a darker side – the legions, the crucifixions and the amphitheatres where prisoners were thrown to the lions for the amusement of the crowds and matched pairs fought, often to the death, in ‘games’ that gave true meaning to a Roman holiday
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