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Russia calls for genuine peace in Ukraine

by our Eastern European affairs correspondent

Russian President Vladimir Putin has responded positively and firmly to the American call for a 30-day standstill cease-fire in Ukraine. Retired British military chiefs say the Labour government must now consider bringing back conscription to boost military readiness for a possible war with Russia and nearly 100 people were arrested after protesters gathered at Trump Tower in New York on Thursday to denounce the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist detained over his involvement with pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University.

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Wakey, Wakey!

by New Worker correspondent

A humorous exclamation from the 1940s. The catch-phrase of Billy Cotton’s band in the 1950s. A gentle expression softly whispered into the ear of a sleepy recruit by a benevolent Sergeant-Major. Such a call is needed today and it is the working class that needs to wake up. To start to think and become aware of the true reality of the modern world.

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Editorial

NHS England goes…

…in a reform of the health service that they say will cut bureaucracy and save money that will be better spent in delivering front-line services to the frail and infirm. Sir Keir Starmer said: “I don’t see why decisions about £200 billion of taxpayer money on something as fundamental to our security as the NHS should be taken by an arm’s length body, NHS England. And I can’t, in all honesty, explain to the British people why they should spend their money on two layers of bureaucracy. That money could and should be spent on nurses, doctors, operations, GP appointments. So I’m bringing management of the NHS back into democratic control by abolishing NHS England. That will put the NHS back at the heart of government where it belongs, free it to focus on patients – less bureaucracy with more money for nurses.” Whether that actually happens when the NHS returns directly to the “democratic control” of the Department of Health and Social Care is, of course, a matter of opinion.

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