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Russian attacks plunge Kiev into darkness

by New Worker correspondent

Donald Trump has ruled out using force in Greenland following a deal with the EU at the World Economic Forum in Davos that will give the USA more bases and exclusive mineral rights in the Danish Arctic territory. But the Europeans are boycotting Trump’s “Board of Peace” that will supposedly oversee the international administration of the Gaza Strip following Israel’s evacuation. And the hawks – headed by the leaders of British, French and German imperialism – are still trying to sabotage the ongoing Russian–American peace talks in Ukraine by pumping more and more arms and funds to the ailing puppet regime in Kiev.

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Message from prisoners of Kiev regime: Free Maduro and Flores!

by Mikhail Kononovich

Mikhail and Alexander Kononovich – who became Ukrainian political prisoners for opposing Ukraine’s NATO-sponsored war against Russia – have sent this message of solidarity with Venezuela following the attack by US imperialism: “Stop U.S. imperialism! Freedom for President Nicolás Maduro and his spouse Cilia Flores!”

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  • Message from prisoners of Kiev regime: Free Maduro and Flores!

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    Trump in Davos

    In Roman days, the Emperors surrounded themselves with flatterers who fawned over every word they said while the slaves and the overly ambitious were kept in their place through fear of the legions, the lash or crucifixion. But these ‘rulers of the world’, who were worshipped as gods, realised that terror was not enough. The generals and the patricians with their vast estates and hordes of slaves had to spread some of it about with free food, blood-soaked ‘games’ and the ferocious races of the arena to entertain the well-to-do and keep the poor and the slaves happy. These days the ‘leader of the free world’ simply relies on brute force and economic blackmail to get his own way and gives little or nothing back in return.

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    Burnham’s call

    The resignation of a Manchester MP has paved the way for a comeback for the Mayor of Greater Manchester at the by-election in a safe Labour seat, which Andy Burnham needs if he is ever going to make his bid for the Labour leadership. Starmer’s gang and the ageing Blairites who surround him have already launched a whisper campaign against Burham, who has done little to mask his political ambitions in recent days. But Starmer has been warned by backbenchers and union leaders that any stitch-up to prevent Burnham potentially returning to Westminster would split the party. If that happens the Greens and the Corbynistas are waiting to pick up the pieces…

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