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Gaza burns as US vetoes new peace plan

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

US imperialism vetoed another call for an end to the fighting in Gaza this week. The UN Security Council called for a ceasefire in Gaza and immediate humanitarian aid, but the Americans vetoed it, enabling Israel to continue its genocidal assault. And with continuing Israeli attacks on Lebanon, American pressure on the Lebanese government to disarm the Hezbollah resistance movement also continues.

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Transport workers fight back begins

by New Worker correspondent

After last week’s strike by RMT workers on the London Underground general secretary Eddie Dempsey demanded that the Mayor of London (who is now paid more that the Prime Minister) take active steps to resolve the long-running dispute. He declared that Sadiq Khan, as Chair of Transport for London (TfL), needs to stop playing about on social media and start doing his job.

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Editorials

After the ball is over

“Many the hopes that have vanished, after the ball” goes the old song – much like Keir Starmer’s pipe dreams about the Trump state visit this week. Two days have gone in a flash. Donald Trump’s been and gone. The Donald was treated to an unaccustomed right royal pageant at Windsor Castle that no doubt went down well with his MAGA constituency back home. Starmer however, got nothing out of the visit – which was entirely predictable to everyone apart from the sycophants and flatterers that the Labour leader surrounds himself with these days.

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There may be trouble ahead

The public spat between Zarah Sultana and the other five MPs in the Independent Alliance doesn’t augur well for the new Corbynista party that still lacks a name. Although the rift is simply over who should manage the membership system and bank accounts of the new party, it clearly reflects underlying differences between those who want a conventional left-social democratic party and Corbyn’s kitchen cabinet that seems to hanker after the sort of rally party such as the old Gaullist movement in France or the mass movements of Ghana’s Nkrumah and Nasser in Egypt that were models for much of the Global South in the 1950s and ‘60s.

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