Lead story

Unions main target of bill

by Daphne Liddle

THE NOTORIOUS gagging Bill last Tuesday passed unchanged through the House of Lords as an amendment that would have removed its worst aspects was defeated.

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The Holocaust — We will remember

by New Worker correspondent

VETERANS of the Second World War joined schoolchildren, ambassadors from Eastern Europe, local dignitaries and communists for a double event in Southwark to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

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Editorial

Rich throw a tax tantrum

THE TORY press is once again bleating about a new “threat” to business following Labour’s pledge to restore the 50p income tax rate this week. We’re told the legions of the rich who have made London their home will desert en masse in protest while at the same time asserting that it won’t bring in that much revenue anyway.

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Special Appeal

Building the Paper

A West London comrade brought a welcome £200 donation for the special fund last week pushing the needle up to £4,242 and leaving us with £10,758 to raise by the end of July.

The special New Worker appeal is crucial to our efforts to maintain our communist paper. A year ago when we re-lauched the paper as a 12-page tabloid we knew it would be a struggle. But the bigger paper packs a punch and it deserves a much wider readership.

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