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The Winds of War!

by our Arab affairs correspondent

Soaring energy prices threaten to plunge the Western world into another slump. Trump talks of ‘peace’ while his rockets pound Iran. Thousands of American marines are heading towards Iran as the Islamic Republic tightens its grip on the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the oil-fields of Western Arabia.

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Strategy for the class struggle

by New Worker correspondent

For the working class to successfully advance towards socialism it requires an understanding of most effective tactics for the class struggle. It is important to learn from the lessons of past generations but also, we must adapt to the reality of today’s modern world. Arguments that took place over a century ago should not hold back the formation of joint actions and alliances. We must look at the world through the eyes of a new generation.

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Editorial

The edge of the precipice

Guns blaze to the roar of drones and rockets as the flames of war spread across the entire Middle East. The Iranians are throttling the Western energy market with their blockade of the Persian Gulf. Americans and their Israeli lackeys are intensifying their attacks on a broader range of industrial and economic targets in Iran. The Islamic Republic is paying them back in kind with devastating missile attacks on Israel and America’s feudal Arab puppets in the Gulf. And Trump’s response has been a mixture of meaningless peace offers coupled with the usual threats that he thinks is what negotiations are all about, which has spiralled the price of oil and gas that has raised the spectre of an energy crisis not seen since the October 1973 oil crisis. No wonder there’s panic in Westminster and the other chancelleries of Europe.

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