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Gaza prevails against Genocide!

by our Arab affairs correspondent

The Gaza truce is holding as Palestinian prisoners are freed and Israeli captives go home. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians return to scenes of death and destruction in the north of the Gaza Strip. Israel bans the UN relief agency that has provided vital humanitarian aid to the Palestinian refugees since 1949. Donald Trump repeats his call for the forced relocation of Palestinians from the war-torn Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan. And Zionist settlers who fled attacks by the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah during the war refuse to return to their settlements in northern Israel amid fears of another round of fighting following continued Israeli violations of the agreement that ended the conflict.

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Employment Rights Bill

by New Worker correspondent

The Starmer Government’s Employment Rights Act is presently going through the Committee stage in the House of Commons, which is where the detail gets worked out after having been approved in principle. It has come under scrutiny by none other than Lord John Hendy KC, at the Anjou Lunch Club, earlier this month.

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Editorial

Never Again!

The slogan used by liberated prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp to denounce Nazism is always recalled on 27th January, now known as Holocaust Day. That was the day in 1945 when the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops advancing into the Third Reich.

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