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Iran ready for American attack!

by our Middle East affairs correspondent

Iranian forces are on high alert as an American armada sails to the Persian Gulf to prepare for a new imperialist onslaught against the Islamic Republic. Iran warns the United Nations over explicit US threats against the Islamic Republic while a senior advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution describes President Donald Trump as “fearful of defeat”. And life returns to normal in Iran following the suppression of the imperialist-run gangs that hijacked peaceful economic protests to unleash anarchy and terror on the streets of Tehran at the behest of Washington and Tel Aviv.

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Angry scenes at Wormwood Scrubs

by New Worker correspondent

Police officers shoved protesters to the ground and kettled them outside Wormwood Scrubs jail in London last weekend during a demonstration in support of a Palestine hunger striker. And 86 people were arrested for refusing “to leave the grounds when ordered to do so”. The Palestine campaigners allegedly “blocked prison staff from entering and leaving, threatened police officers and a number managed to get inside a staff entrance area of a prison building”. Those arrested were detained under suspicion of aggravated trespass, the police said.

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Editorial

Burnham’s move

The Labour bureaucracy’s decision to block Andy Burnham’s bid to return to Parliament comes as no surprise – least of all to the Mayor of Greater Manchester who has done little in recent months to mask his leadership ambitions. Burnham knows the score. His star rose with the help of the right-wing blocs that have long held sway in the unions and the Labour Party – factions that are still loyal to Starmer and the ageing gang of washed-up Blairites that advise him.

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