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Defending peace! Remembering the past!

by Zhang Bowen and Cao Peixian

Huge crowds packed the centre of Beijing to mark the 80th anniversary of China’s victory in the Second World War and pledging the country’s commitment to peaceful development in a world still fraught with turbulence and uncertainties.

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Fire brigades woes

by New Worker correspondent

Britain’s fire services are in deep trouble. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) says that a below inflation funding settlement for 2025–26 equals the loss of 2,300 firefighter posts in England. As we shall see, things are no better in Scotland or Wales.

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Editorial

The future beckons

While the imperialists live in the past with their “American Dream”, their “new world order” and “Making America Great Again”, the Global South aims for the future – a better tomorrow that was charted out in Beijing by the leaders of the people’s democracies and the leaders of the Global South during the top-level discussions on the sidelines of the Victory Day celebrations in the Chinese capital last week.

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