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The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain

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Major Israeli break of ceasefire

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

THE ISRAELIS launched a massive wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip last weekend in a major violation of a ceasefire brokered by US President Donald Trump.

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Scottish Political News

by our Scottish political affairs correspondent

LAST WEEK’S report on the Scottish Green Party somewhat underestimated the discontent in the Greens’ ranks. Three of the party’s eleven councillors in Glasgow have defected to Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘Your Party’. These defections give the Corbynistas their first elected representatives in Scotland. The defections weaken, but do not end SNP and Green control of the council. At the same time it was announced that five MSP candidates have taken the same route: two in Glasgow and three in West of Scotland.

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Editorial

Labour on the rocks

THE WELSH nationalist victory in the Caerphilly Senedd by-election last week was a slap in the face for Starmer and his band. Plaid Cymru won the seat in the Welsh parliament with 47 per cent of the vote in a town which had been a Labour stronghold for over a hundred years. Labour came a poor third behind the Faragist Reform platform that has become a beacon for disaffected Welsh Tories whose numbers have soared since Kemi Badenoch won the Tory leadership race in November 2024.

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