THE NEW WORKER

The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 16th February 2018

Lead story

Syria fights against Israeli aggression

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

THE SYRIANS gave Israel a bloody nose when their air-defences downed an Israeli warplane and hit another during an air-raid last weekend, and they’ve warned the Zionists of more “surprises” to come if Israel continues its provocations. Syrian air-defences also shot down 13 Israeli air-launched cruise missiles during the clash over the skies of the occupied Golan Heights on Saturday.

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LRC debates preparing Labour for power

by New Worker correspondent

MEMBERS of the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) met for a special general meeting in London’s Conway Hall last Saturday to debate the LRC’s continuing role within the labour movement..

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Editorial

Repossessing our utilities and services

THE LABOUR Party held a conference in London last Saturday on Alternative Models of Ownership — a debate about the nuts and bolts of taking our privatised utilities and services back into public ownership, and doing it in such a way that a future Tory government would find it impossible to re-privatise them.

The neo-liberal policies that set off a plague of privatisations all around the globe have now shown themselves up as destroyers of public services and utilities. Their supporters claimed that they would be infinitely more efficient than the “bureaucratic” nationalised industries and would at the same time deliver unlimited wealth to millions of shareholders from all walks of life.

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