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New terror attacks on Gaza!

by our Arab affairs correspondent

Israel has broken the truce in Gaza. Innocent men, women and children are being slaughtered. Air raids are once again spreading death and destruction across the beleaguered Palestinian enclave this week. Anglo-American air-strikes are targeting Yemen. Hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including women and children, have been killed in the terror raids that followed the breakdown of talks aimed at getting the release of Israeli prisoners held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian and Yemeni resistance has responded by rocketing Tel Aviv, forcing the temporary closure of Ben Gurion international airport. And the Houthi government in north Yemen has resumed its blockade of Israel with missile attacks on Western freighters and imperialist warships in the Red Sea.

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Brian Haw remembered

by New Worker correspondent

A bronze statuette of Brian Haw the peace campaigner was unveiled at the Imperial War Museum in London last weekend. Brian Haw camped out in Parliament Square for over 10 years in protest against Anglo-American aggression in Iraq and imperialist wars throughout the rest of the world. Despite the best efforts of the police to hound him out Brian maintained his vigil until ill-health forced him to leave shortly before his death in 2011.

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Editorials

We can’t stop now!

Thousands are being massacred in Gaza, and the Western world remains silent. Israel has treacherously broken the ceasefire. For the last two weeks, Israel has completely blockaded Gaza, using starvation as a weapon of war as it continues to kill Palestinians with impunity in the occupied West Bank as well as the beleaguered Palestinian enclave. And now, with the blessing of Donald Trump the Zionists have resumed their genocidal assault on Gaza.

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Tax the rich instead of Labour’s new austerity plan

Opposition to Labour’s new austerity programme is growing. “Slashing disability benefits is a cruel political choice that will cost lives” says Jeremy Corbyn. The former Labour leader says none of the cuts announced are necessary and the government should tax the super-rich instead. Diane Abbott dismisses Sir Keir Starmer’s claim that the cuts in benefits had a moral purpose. “This is not about morality,” she says. It is “about the Treasury’s wish to balance the country’s books on the back of the most vulnerable and poor people in this society”. And the Greens tell Starmer that millions were struggling in “a deeply unfair, unequal economic system” while billionaires got ever richer. Why put the burden for tackling the crisis on the elderly, children, the sick and disabled “rather than on the shoulders of the super-rich with a wealth tax”.

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