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No to sanctions – no to war!

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Another week. Another stand-off in the Persian Gulf as Trump mouths off in Washington about a crippling new round of sanctions against Iran to try and force the Islamic Republic to open up the Strait of Hormuz. China is refusing to join the sanctions regime while the Russians are reportedly stepping up their arms supplies to Iran via the Caspian Sea.

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Fidel at 100: A Centenary of Legacy and Solidarity

by New Worker correspondent

NCP leader Andy Brooks joined over 200 diplomats, union leaders, parliamentarians, academics and long-standing friends of Cuba to reflect on Fidel Castro’s legacy and enduring international solidarity on the anniversary of his birth on 13th August 1926. Mander Hall, at the headquarters of the NEU, the largest education union in Europe, was packed on that Thursday morning last week. By the time the lights dimmed, there wasn’t a spare seat left.

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Editorial

In Academia also…

Plagiarism is as old as the hills in Western academia. Passing off the work of others as original research and cheating at exams is part and parcel of the curriculum these days. ‘Lie, cheat and steal’ is the bourgeois ethic that underwrites everything in the capitalist world so it shouldn’t surprise us to find it in academia also. When caught out erring scholars can usually expect a moment of shame, a rap on the knuckles, a demotion or a discreet resignation before returning to the ivory towers.

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