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The Palestinians have always chosen resistance

by our Arab affairs correspondent

THE PALESTINIAN resistance has denounced imperialist plans to drive the Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip to turn the enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East”. So have the Saudis who Donald Trump hopes will soon pour their oil money into the ailing American economy to help “Make America Great Again”. Many believe that the proposed Trump-Putin summit will take place in Saudi Arabia or another of the oil-rich feudal Arab Gulf kingdoms. But Trump’s ravings now may put that in doubt.

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Donbas communists: Our historic mission

by Boris Litvinov

Boris Litvinov, is the First Secretary of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) District of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF). OUR troops have advanced some 35 to 40 kilometres from Donetsk, which means the capital of the Donetsk People’s Republic is now beyond the reach of Ukrainian artillery and tanks, Now the administrative border of the Donetsk Republic with the Dnepropetrovsk region is just 10 kilometres away from the front. But there are still many problems due to the supply of Western weapons such as missiles and modern drones. So the at- tacks on Donetsk are still ongoing with weapons supplied to Ukraine from the United States, Britain, France, Germany and other NATO countries. But whatever weapons are used against us the decisive factor is the fighting soldier – the infantry.

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Editorials

Freedom for Palestine – no to ethnic cleansing!

No one, apart from the Israelis, can take Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza seriously. The Zionists always denied that the true aim of the genocidal assault on Gaza has been the destruction of the Palestinian population, and denial of all of their rights including the right to self-determination. They lied.

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New Labour woes

This week a Scottish Labour MP warned that the next government may be a “hard-line far-right effort” if Labour does not deliver “improved living standards”. Brian Leishman, who represents Alloa & Grangemouth, criticised his own party’s government for not providing financial compensation to the ‘Waspi’ women who campaign against the way in which the state pension ages for men and women were equalised at the expense of many women.

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