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Talks continue but the guns still blaze

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

American and Iranian delegations meet in Switzerland to hammer out the details of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding that has extend ed the truce in the Persian Gulf. The double-blockade’s been lifted. Oil prices fall to pre-war levels. But the guns still blaze in southern Lebanon as Israeli forces struggle to hold their positions in the face of fierce partisan resistance.

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Putting people first in People’s China

by John Maryon

People’s China has launched its new 15th Five Year Plan, which aims for high quality growth. A far more ambitious project than merely increasing industrial and agricultural production and expanding the nations GDP. Boosting the ser vice sector, continuing to invest at a high rate in infrastructure, further improving health and welfare provision to meet people’s needs and ensuring stability by the reinforcement of supply chains are all given priority. The country’s defences will be strengthened to resist imperialist aggression. Traditional growth strategies are being replaced by new development methods aimed at transforming the economy to higher value production levels driven by innovation.

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Editorial

So long Keir Starmer…

It didn’t take long to get rid of Starmer after all. His pathetic resignation speech marked the inevitable end of his dismal two years in office spent crawling to the Americans and what he believed was the dominant trend amongst the British bourgeoisie. No longer of any further use to the ruling class following the overwhelming Burnham victory at the Maker field by-election. Stabbed in the back by his phoney friends in Parliament. No one will miss him.

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