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Liberation Day? Workers pay the price

by our Arab affairs correspondent

Trump called 2nd April ‘Liberation Day’ and says his trade war will “Make America Wealthy Again”. But as has always been the case, workers shouldn’t expect to gain much from a policy crafted for capitalists.

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Rise and Shine!

by John Maryon

Originally forming part of a biblical verse from the book of Isaiah that calls for God’s light to shine, today it has become an idiom to encourage anyone to get up and achieve something. And in the context of the working class to stand up for their rights through class struggle. An essential time to take the path of building socialism and lay the foundations of a beautiful communist society. The New Communist Party of Britain (NCP) is part of that struggle and recognises that complete emancipation from capitalism and imperialism can only be achieved by a revolutionary change.

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Editorial

Trump’s big day

The Trump administration launched a global trade war this week with a tranche of tariffs on most countries – including the United Kingdom. Trump announced a 10 per cent baseline tariff on all imports wherever they come from and higher rates on a number of countries whom he deemed the “worst offenders” in terms of imposing tariffs on American goods. Britain is in the 10 per cent general band. Even the uninhabited Heard and McDonald islands, a remote Australian outpost near Antarctica, is on the basic rate – even though the population consists largely of seals and penguins.

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