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French students take to the streets!

by New Worker correspondent

Protest marches Barricades around schools. Tear-gas in the streets. The protests, led by French school students demanding more education funding that began last month have swept across the country. Now they’re kicking off in neighbouring Belgium as demands for more teachers and smaller classes lead to violent clashes with the riot police in Paris and many other cities in France.

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You shall not pass!

by New Worker correspondent

London comrades joined thousands of anti-fascists marching through London on Sunday to commemorate the Battle of Cable Street that stopped Mosley’s Blackshirts in 1936. Demonstrators rallied outside the 18th-century façade of the old London Hospital, now part of the new Tower Hamlets Town Hall, for a march to Cable Street to honour those who battled with the police to force Sir Oswald Mosley to call off his fascist march through what was then a predominantly Jewish part of London’s East End. On that day, thousands of working people, led by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Independent Labour Party (ILP), rose early from their beds to occupy four key places along the route of a planned march by Mosley and his British Union of Fascists, in order to block its path. Throughout the day they stood firm, despite mounted police baton charges and numerous arrests.

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Editorial

When the hurly-burly’s done…

So the battle of Holborn & St Pancras is over. Labour held the seat. The Greens did well and George Galloway’s intervention was a dismal failure. At the end of the day nothing surprised us. Labour was always the bookies’ favourite. Although their candidate was the lack-lustre leader of the local council, Sagal Abdi-Wali clearly benefited from the ‘Burnham bounce’ that has revived Labour’s fortunes across the country. She also had the full support of the Starmerite machine, built up over the years when the former premier held the seat, as well as the Blairite gang in the House of Commons who joined the local canvassing teams to get the traditional Labour vote out on the day. And on that day Labour held the seat with a comfortable majority – 13 points ahead of the nearest contender, the Green leader Zack Polanski.

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