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Ceasefire: But will it hold?

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Palestinians are returning to the rubble that once were their homes as the Israelis withdraw from the shattered streets of the Gaza Strip this week. Israeli troops are pulling back to cease-fire lines agreed under the Trump plan to be followed by a prisoner exchange and the delivery of much needed humanitarian aid to the beleaguered Palestinian enclave.

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NCP returns to Ipswich

by New Worker correspondent

Comrades and friends assembled in the Friends Meeting House, on a wet and windy evening, to form a New Worker Supporters Group in Ipswich, the Suffolk port that goes back to Saxon days.

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Editorials

Gaza: What next?

The guns have fallen silent and the Palestinians are returning to what was once their homes in the Gaza Strip. The hundreds of international volunteers in the Global Sumud flotilla who were interned after their vessels were seized in international waters by the Israeli navy have all been released. The relatives of the Israeli hostages and the Palestinian prisoners look forward to long-awaited re-unions with their loved ones. And Western politicians and Arab leaders talk about a new civil government that will replace the Hamas administration after the Israelis have gone, which will be the first step towards ending the conflict in the Middle East. But will any of this actually happen?

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Trump trumped again

Donald Trump has once again failed to get the Nobel Peace Prize he has so long coveted. It has instead gone to a Venezuelan opposition politician whose only merit is that she is a reactionary leader and a staunch supporter of Israel who believes in “popular capitalism”.

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