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Gaza starves as USA focuses on Ukraine plan

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

The Gaza conflict was pushed on to the back-burner this week as American diplomacy goes into top gear over Ukraine. Envoys of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin work on Washington’s 28-point peace plan to end the war. Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, plans to travel to Moscow next week with other senior American officials for talks with the Russian leaders to end the nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine.

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Off the Rails

by New Worker correspondent

Once again it is the transport sector where most of the industrial action is taking place.

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Editorials

Same old story…

The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, says Labour is cutting NHS waiting lists, the cost of living and government debt while boosting productivity, investment and growth. But this week’s budget contained few surprises, with spending plans that had largely already been floated in the media by Starmer aides eager to prepare the public for a mediocre financial review that does next to nothing to end austerity or reverse the decline in the living standards of working people.

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A step too far…

“Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism” says Jeremy Corbyn. “It is truly frightening that such a fundamental freedom is now under attack. Once rights are lost, they are not easy to win back. We must resist this with all we’ve got.” But, incredible it as it may seem, the Starmer Government is indeed thinking of scrapping jury trials in England and Wales for all but the most serious of cases. Starmer’s deputy, the Justice Minister David Lammy, is proposing to massively restrict the ancient right to a jury trial by only guaranteeing it for defendants facing rape, murder, manslaughter or other cases passing a public interest test.

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