THE NEW WORKER

The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 14th September 2018

Lead story

TUC calls for new general election

by our labour movement correspondent

THE GREAT and the good of the union movement were in Manchester for the TUC’s 150th conference this week, for debates dominated by Brexit and calls for another general election.

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Cleaners’ strikes spread after victory in Kensington & Chelsea

by New Worker correspondent

CLEANERS working at Kensington & Chelsea town hall are celebrating a promise that they will get a pay rise and will be paid the London Living Wage.

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Editorial

Drive the racists off the streets

REPORTS that former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson has applied to join UKIP is causing ripples amongst what’s left of that Eurosceptic party. Even Nigel Farage seems dismayed at the prospect of someone once seen as the leader of a bunch of racist thugs joining the party he once led.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, thinks “the British working class will be electrified” if he joins UKIP. But Robinson is a vain man with an inflated view of his own importance and UKIP counts for little these days.

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