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Trump talks trade in Beijing summit

by New Worker correspondent

The Middle East truce remains on hold as Donald Trump lands in Beijing for top-level talks with the Chinese leadership. The double blockade of the Persian Gulf continues and the price of oil on the spot market once again soars over the $100 a barrel mark as Iranian patrol boats clash with the American navy for control of the Strait of Hormuz. And the guns continue to blaze in Lebanon as the Hezbollah militia leads the fight-back to drive the Israelis out of their self-proclaimed “buffer zone” in southern Lebanon.

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We will not forget Odessa!

by New Worker correspondent

Activists from International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity (IUAFS) and members of the Workers Party of Brit ain held a vigil outside the Ukrainian Embassy in London on Saturday 2nd May to remember the Anti-Maidan heroes who died at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa on 2nd May 2014.

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Editorial

Now the fun begins…

The knives are out. The back-stabbers are at play as the struggle begins anew in the corridors of power within the Labour Party for the key to Number Ten. Sir Keir Starmer says that the UK faces going down “a very dark path” as he pledges to fight on as Prime Minister. And former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, a one-time ally of Jeremy Corbyn, says Wes Streeting is planning a stealth coup to move against Starmer to avoid a leadership contest that could include Labour’s ‘King of the North’, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.

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