THE NEW WORKER

The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 24th February 2017


Lead story

30,000 deaths and now more NHS cuts

by Daphne Liddle

RESEARCHERS at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the University of Oxford, and Blackburn with Darwen borough council last week claimed, in two articles published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, that an unprecedented increase in “excess deaths” in England and Wales could be linked to underfunding in the NHS and the social care system.

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ASLEF drivers reject their leaders’ sell-out deal

MEMBERS of the train drivers’ union ASLEF last week rejected a sell-out deal negotiated with Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) — the owners of Southern Rail — and supported by the TUC that would have conceded everything the management was aiming to achieve on the issue of operating trains with no guards or on-board supervisors (OBSs).

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Editorial

The spectre of social fascism

IN THE 1920s and 1930s in Germany, the term “social fascist” was coined after the Social Democrat Party leadership in Germany had sided with the ruling bourgeoisie in its efforts to eradicate revolutionary communism from their society completely. It was a justifiable reaction to the brutal purges the Social Democrats had been involved in against the communists, but it was a mistake because it isolated the communists and divided the masses of the working class into fighting each other at a time when maximum unity was vital against the growing threat of Nazism.

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