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World on the brink – Stop Trump’s War!

by our Arab affairs correspondent

The Middle East war enters its third week as waves of US and Israeli missiles strike Iran and the Islamic Republic hits back at the Americans, their feudal Arab lackeys and the Zionist entity. Thousands of Iranians and Lebanese have been killed or injured. But Israel has not escaped unscathed. The Israelis put their losses at 18 dead and 2,579 wounded while the Americans say they’ve lost nine military personnel and a further 150 wounded. People’s China has stepped-up shuttle diplomacy to push for an immediate ceasefire and a political settlement. And in Europe, Spain has formally withdrawn its ambassador to Israel and the Left group in the European Parliament has criticised European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for failing to condemn US and Israeli strikes in the Middle East.

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Stop the bombing now!

by Ed Newman (Radio Havana Cuba)

Angry protesters marched on the American embassy in London last weekend demanding an end to US-Israeli strikes on Iran. The march was organised by a coalition of groups, including Hands off Iran, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War, the Muslim Association of Britain, the Palestinian Forum in Britain and CND.

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Editorial

Stop the drift to war

It didn’t take long for Starmer to switch from blocking the Americans from using British bases to attack Iran to permitting it and now actively collaborating with US imperialism and Zionist Israel in their onslaught against the Islamic Republic. He can count on the Faragists and Tories to back him while Tony Blair, who can barely show his face in public in Britain these days, thinks we should have gone in with Trump from the start.

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Every cloud…

This week we saw a minor victory for free speech when the High Court ruled in favour of the Guardian journalist Owen Jones in the Raffi Berg libel case. Jones, best known for his book Chavs – The Demonising of the Working Class back in 2011, launched his career as a man of the left but soon gravitated to the centre to join the prominenti of the mainstream media. He did, however, attract the ire of the Zionists when he accused a BBC journalist of pro-Israeli bias in December 2024.

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