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Iran defiant with no end in sight to conflict

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Oil and energy markets remained volatile this week as hopes for an end to the crisis in the Middle East evaporated with the news of yet another clash between American and Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf and no end in sight to the conflict in south Lebanon. An Israeli air assault on Beirut was called off after a shouting match between Trump and Netanyahu that ended with the American president telling the Israeli leader to call it off in no uncertain terms and the Iranians breaking off all negotiations with the USA following a tit for-tat exchange of rockets and drones, with Americans hitting Iranian positions in the Gulf to which the Islamic Republic responded by taking out US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain.

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Communists gather in Moscow to co-ordinate tactics

by New Worker correspondent

Theo Russell from the NCP joined other communists throughout the world for a keynote anti-fascist conference in Moscow last week. In spite of the increasing difficulties in travelling to the Russian Federation, and the strongest imperialist sanctions ever imposed on a state, 130 delegations from 100 countries attended the event, which took place at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, only a couple of blocks away from Red Square.

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Editorial

It’s still the same old story…

…from the likes of Nigel Farage, who’ve been stoking up the flames of racist violence in Southampton following the trial and conviction of the young Sikh responsible for the death of a teenager in a fight last December.

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