THE NEW WORKER

The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 2nd February 2018

Lead story

Build support for Corbyn now

by Daphne Liddle

LABOUR has forced the Government to publish a leaked Whitehall draft paper providing an assessment of the impact of the various options for Brexit on the future of the British economy. Many Tory backbenchers supported the Labour call and the Government agreed not to contest the vote on publication on Wednesday.

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NHS supported by staff unpaid overtime

NATIONAL Health Service workers are doing £1.6 billion worth of unpaid overtime every year to prevent the NHS from collapse, according to a newly published annual staff survey.

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Editorial

Panicking Remainers’ two-pronged attack

THE RULING class in Britain is panicking at the prospect of a Corbyn Labour government in the near future with Britain decisively outside the economic controls of the European Union (EU). This would mark a significant shift in the balance of power between capital and Labour in Britain.

It would be a government free to trade with any country around the world and free to invest in British manufacturing industry. It would be a government ready to restore trade union rights and in so doing reverse the yawning wealth gap between rich and poor in Britain. It would be a government that could cap rents and burst the housing bubble that sees our cities’ forests of towering luxury homes owned by investment companies whilst our workers are forced to sleep on the streets.

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