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No more Trump wars!

by New Worker correspondent

Strange days. Donald Trump now seems to be in his second childhood rejoicing at having been given a second-hand Nobel peace prize medal from one of his Venezuelan lackeys. His call on the Big Oil corporations to return to plunder Venezuela under American protection stalls after Exxon Mobil’s chief executive says Venezuela is “uninvestable” without “significant changes” to its economic and legal structures. Kidnapped Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, facing trumped-up charges in New York of drug-trafficking, has hired Barry Pollack who long-represented Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, to head his defence team. Trump talks to the new acting leader of Venezuela on the phone. And in Havana the people pay homage to the 32 Cubans killed defending Maduro during the American raid on Caracas.

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Hunger-strikers protest in Glasgow

by New Worker correspondent

Scottish Labour have been branded ‘unelectable for a generation’ as demonstrators gathered in front of the party headquarters in Glasgow in solidarity with the jailed Palestine Action hunger-strikers on Tuesday.

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Editorial

Tories in disarray

There’s gloom and doom in the Tory ranks following the defection of Robert Jenrick to the Faragist camp. Jenrick defected to Reform UK last week after Tory leader Kemi Badenoch sacked him from the shadow cabinet saying she had “irrefutable evidence” that her shadow justice secretary was plotting to jump ship in most damaging way. She was speedily proved right.

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