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With no popular mandate, with no congressional or parliamentary authorization, without even an attempt at a serious explanation, the US and the UK have launched a new bloody military adventure in the Middle East.

While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.

John Pilger, who died on December 30, had an extraordinary career as a reporter. His journalism informed countless people about the catastrophic impact of US foreign policy during and after the Cold War, from Vietnam and Cambodia to Nicaragua and East Timor.

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This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.

We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Paul Sherman, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Trotskyist movement in the US.

The main target of this brutal police operation is the working class now coming into struggle against the Wickremesinghe government’s International Monetary Fund dictated austerity measures.

Millions of people around the world are taking to the streets to protest against the genocide in Gaza and the threat of world war. The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, in close cooperation with its comrades in France, the UK, Turkey, Ukraine and Russia, is participating in the European elections to give voice to this opposition and develop it into a powerful movement against the root cause of war, capitalism.

We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Nancy Hanover, a writer and editor for the <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> and a member of the Trotskyist movement in the US for more than four decades.