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Gaza: End the ‘historic horror’

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

HAMAS IS DEMANDING that hundreds of aid trucks be allowed into the Gaza Strip as a precondition for continuing talks with Israel while People’s China repeated its call for an immediate end to the fighting at a meeting of the UN Security Council this week.

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The Staggering State of the Unions

by New Worker correspondent

TWO SETS of complementary official annual statis tics relating to British trade union membership were published recently. In May came Trade Union Membership, UK, 1995 to 2024: Statistical Bulletin from the Department of Business & Trade. This presented a depressing picture of trade unionism based on the Department’s Labour Force Survey of approximately 28,000 households (63,000 individuals) and revealed that once again the number of workers in unions had fallen, this time to a mere twenty-two per cent.

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Editorials

The thin end of the wedge

THOUGH THE supporters of Palestine Action have won their bid to legally challenge the British government’s decision to ban them in the High Court the witch-hunt continues as the Establishment lashes out in feverish attempts to put a lid on the mass movement in solidarity with the Palestinians who are being starved to death in the Gaza Strip.

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It’s still the same old story…

...a fight for love and glory – that’s how the old song goes. Or as Napoleon said: a soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon. And some people, even today, crave for the acclaim of the world and the medals and fame that go with it. Men like Donald Trump who does nothing to mask his desire for a Nobel Peace Prize.

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