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The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain

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End the Genocide! Stop the War!

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Millions of people all over the world took to the streets last week to demonstrate their solidarity with the Palestinian Arabs in the beleaguered Gaza Strip. Britain, France and Canada have threatened Israel with sanctions over the escalating military offensive in Gaza and the blockade on humanitarian aid. And two Israeli diplomats were gunned down in Washington by an American who has now been arrested.

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At the Airports

by Theo Russell

Last week hundreds of striking Heathrow workers marched to the airport HQ in Hillingdon demanding that the airport’s management intervene in their pay dispute with contractor Wilson James.

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Editorial

The cowardly BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is one of our supposed ‘national treasures’, whose aims are to educate, inform and entertain the public that funds it through the licence fee. Under the motto “Nation shall speak peace unto Nation” the BBC claims to be a pillar of impartiality and a reliable source of independent news at home and abroad. That was never the case back in the 1920s when the Corporation was founded. It’s certainly not the case now.

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