THE NEW WORKER

The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 11th August 2017


Lead story

Trump playing with fire over Korea

by our Asia Affairs correspondent

TENSION is rising on the Korean peninsula following the ratcheting up of sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and even more blood-thirsty threats from US President Donald Trump. The increasingly unstable man in the White House told the media: “North Korea best not make any more threats to the US. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”

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UNISON’s tribunal fees triumph defends access to law

THE SUPREME Court ruling in the case brought by the public sector union UNISON that charging workers fees for access to employment tribunals will have far reaching implications for many other issues and is based on a principle that dates back to the Magna Carta, according to a report issued last week by the lawyer who represented the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

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Editorial

The Winds of War

IN A WEEK in which we’ve been remembering the hundreds of thousands killed when the Americans nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, we’ve heard the new US president mouthing off with his usual threats against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Donald Trump, emboldened no doubt by last weekend’s shameful decision of the United Nations Security Council to impose even more sanctions against the beleaguered beacon of socialism in Asia, bragged that: “North Korea best not make any more threats to the US. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.” But US threats count for little these days, least of all with the Korean People’s Army, who responded in turn by threatening to nuke the strategic US nuclear base on the Pacific island of Guam.

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Another Blairite Trojan horse

MEANWHILE a bunch of discredited Blairite MPs have set up a new Venezuelan parliamentary group clearly designed to undermine the Corbyn leadership whilst supporting agents of US imperialism working to bring down the progressive Maduro government in Venezuela.

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