THE NEW WORKER

The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 9th March 2018

Lead story

CUTS LEAVE US IN THE COLD

by Daphne Liddle

THE SEVERE cold weather last week, with heavy snow and temperatures below freezing, exposed serious weaknesses in the infrastructure of this country because of continued cuts in public spending that left vulnerable people freezing to death, others without warmth, water, food, electricity or transport. And it cost the economy £billions

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WI attacks Government over food poverty

THE NATIONAL Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) last week launched a nationwide campaign to confront the Government over the crisis of food poverty.

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Editorial

An unwelcome visitor

TThe bourgeois ‘human rights’ gang brand freedom-fighters as “terrorists” whilst passing off the brutish gunmen who serve imperialism in Syria as the “moderate opposition.” And all of them will be crawling on their knees to lick the boots of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia during his state visit to London this week.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is regarded as the power behind the throne in the oil-rich desert kingdom that was founded by his grand-father, Abdel Aziz ibn Saud, after the first World War. During his long life Ibn Saud had innumerable wives and concubines, whose offspring now make up the upper echelon of the ruling class of the feudal Saudi kingdom that has lived off their juicy cut of the oil revenues that have kept the country afloat since the 1930s.

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