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Stop Starving Gaza! Stop Arming Israel!

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

The guns blaze on the streets as Palestinian resistance fighters take on Israeli forces advancing deeper into Gaza City killing dozens of Palestinian civilians in their way and forcing tens of thousands of others onto coastal roads away from the city centre. While the feudal Arab leaders wring their hands at the UNthe Zionist killing machine continues unchecked, spreading terror that spares neither the sick and the hungry or women and children in the besieged Palestinian enclave.

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Bloody Sunday fight for justice

by New Worker correspondent

The judge in the trial of the sole British soldier charged with murder over the 1972 ‘Bloody Sunday’ killings of 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers has ruled that key military statements could be entered as evidence by prosecutors. Judge Patrick Lynch said the hearsay statements that the prosecution case was “totally dependent upon” should be admitted, but that it would be inappropriate at this point to give reasons for his decision. A lawyer for the families of the victims, Ciaran Sheils, said they were “very, very pleased”, describing the evidence as “decisive”.

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Editorials

A step in the right direction

The Starmer government’s decision to recognise the State of Palestine may be no more than a diplomatic gesture of support but it nevertheless clearly recognises, at long last, the legitimate rights of the Palestinian Arabs to self-determination and independence. The UK, together with a number of its Western allies, have now joined the overwhelming majority of countries around the world that have long recognised the Palestinians right to establish a state of their own on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The USA and Israel can now only count on the support of a handful of venal puppets in the international arena.

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Burnham shows his cards

By all accounts Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, is on the verge of returning to front-line Labour politics. He says Downing Street has created a “climate of fear” within the Labour Party and tells the media that Labour MPs have privately urged him to challenge Starmer for the leadership. That, of course, is easier said than done.

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