The New Worker

The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain

Week commencing 20th December 2013

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The New Worker is now having it’s two-week Christmas break.

The next issue will be out on Friday 10th January 2014.

Lead story

Hungry and homeless

by Daphne Liddle

THE CON-DEM Coalition austerity cuts since 2010 have sent homelessness and hunger in Britain soaring.

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Firefighters to strike again over pensions

FIREFIGHTER campaigning against government attacks on their pensions will strike in England and Wales on both Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, the Fire Brigades Union announced on Monday.

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Editorial

DPRK defends socialism

OUR BOURGEOIS leaders have, predictably, been wailing over the fate of Jang Song Thaek, the leader of a counter-revolutionary faction inside the Workers Party of Korea, who was condemned to death last week for plotting to overthrow the government of the DPR Korea.

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