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Xi in Washington for summit with Trump

by New Worker correspondent

Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Washington for top level talks with Donald Trump and members of his administration. Xi told the media that he and Trump had agreed to build a constructive China–US relationship of strategic stability during Trump’s visit to China in May, which has provided strategic guidance for the future development of bilateral ties.

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TUC in Brighton

by New Worker correspondent

No surprises at the TUC’s anual congress in Brighton this month. The TUC that communists of yesteryear dubbed the “general staff of the labour movement” still calls itself the “voice of Britain at work”. And at Brighton, “Unity Works” was the banal slogan adopted by Congress House for the event. They would hardly proclaim “Disunity Works” or “Unity Doesn’t Work”…

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Editorial

The crisis in the water industry

There is, of course, still some debate within the Labour Party. In his leadership bid Andy Burnham talked about renationalising the crisis-ridden water industry and ending homelessness by building hundreds of thousands of new council houses. Two months after his victory and we’re still waiting to see the plans.

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