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Gaza: US vetoes call for peace!

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Russia and People’s China have condemned the latest American move to block international ef forts to end Zionist aggression in Gaza. The Trump administration has again vetoed UN action to stop the genocide in Gaza. And Hamas, the Muslim brotherhood which leads the resistance in the besieged Palestinian enclave, says this provides a green light for continued Israeli attacks on civilians. “The US veto embodies the American administration’s blind bias towards the fascist occupation government and its support for its crimes against humanity committed in the Gaza Strip,” Hamas said. “The failure of the UN Security Council to stop the war of genocide that has been ongoing for twenty months… raises fundamental questions about the role of international community institutions and the effectiveness of international laws.”

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On the NHS front

by New Worker correspondent

In the week in which it was announced that Britain would be increasing its military spending from 2.5 to three per cent and would be forced by NATO to increase it to 3.5, most likely at the expense of public services, it was telling that the unions had little to say on that important matter.

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Editorials

A new lease of life for Labour?

Labour’s victory in the south Lanarkshire by-election this week has surprised the bookies, dented the prestige of the SNP and boosted the standing of Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar. But while the nationalists were expected to hold their Hamilton, Larkhall & Stonehouse seat the political pundits always said it would be a close run thing.

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No arms for Israel!

Too much even for Britain or France to stomach – the latest American veto at the United Nations shows the true colours of the Trump administration as the instigator of the Zionist massacres in the Gaza Strip. But while the Starmer government likes to pose as “even-handed” or even sympathetic to the legitimate demands of the Palestinians it continues to supplies arms and intelligence to the Zionist entity.

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Pastures new?

It didn’t take long for differences between Donald Trump and Elon Musk to degenerate into smears and common abuse. Musk is peddling all sorts of unsavoury stories about his former ally while Trump leaves it to his acolytes to call for Musk’s deportation as an “illegal immigrant”.

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