• New Age

• 1978-1980 (Creation)

• Series

• 17 items

• Communist Workers’ Movement

• Political newspaper of the Communist Workers’ Movement (CWM), as successor publication to its previous periodical, Workers’ Notebook. 17 issues of New Age were published between February 1978 and January 1980 (the last issue was numbered 18, but this was due to an error in numbering — there was in fact no issue No. 16). It was initially edited and produced by members of the CWM National Committee, principally its National Organizer, JG, and Keith Bennett. Hugh Goodacre soon took over the production of the newspaper, and was then coopted onto the CWM’s National Committee as its Editor.

In January 1980, the CWM formally united into a single organisation with the Revolutionary Communist League of Britain (RCLB). Already from late 1979, as part of the unification process, New Age had already begun to collaborate in the production of the RCLB’s newspaper, Class Struggle, the latter’s Vol. 3.No. 26 of 1979 having appeared with both mastheads on the front page.

New Age regularly included articles by Keith Bennett on international affairs, particularly in relation to the leadership of China and the other socialist countries, as well as the polemical standpoints then existing among them, and both he and other CWM members wrote regularly on Palestine and global national liberation struggles. The newspaper took a decisive and uncompromising standpoint of support for Ireland’s Republican Movement.

SELECTED ARTICLES:

‘China’s national People’s congress: a Congress of unity and victory’. Keith Bennett (unsigned). New Age, No. 2, p2 and 8.

‘Front puts women in their place’. Critical comment on National Front policy towards women. New Age, No. 2, Page 4.

Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe commemorated. New Age, No. 2, Pages 5 and 8.

Parliamentary politics in France. New Age, No. 2, Page 5.

“Garners: the steaks are raised”, New Age, No. 6, p1-2.

“Racists on the run”, New Age, No. 6, pp1 and 8.

Union of Post Office Workers; Tom Jackson and “Social Democratic misleadership”, New Age, No. 6, pp2-3.

“Czechoslovakia — 10 years after”, New Age, No. 6, pp4-5.

Cultural review: “Workers take the stage”:New Age interviews member of visiting Chinese acrobatics theatre from Liaoning, New Age, No. 6, p7. (By Keith Bennett, unattributed.

Steel strike: The rolling of thunder. New Age, No. 18, Jan-Feb 1980, p1.

Afghanistan: Soviet Union invades to worldwide storm of protest. New Age, No. 18, Jan-Feb 1980, p1.

Communist Workers Movement holds Third National Conference. New Age, No. 18, Jan-Feb 1980, p2.

Unification between the Revolutionary Communist League of Britain and the Communist Workers’ Movement. New Age, No. 18, Jan-Feb 1980, p2.

Interview with National Secretary of Communist Workers’ Movement. New Age, No. 18, Jan-Feb 1980, pp2-3.

The future of New Age. New Age, No. 18, Jan-Feb 1980, p3.

50th anniversary of Daily Worker: rebuild the revolutionary press!. New Age, No. 18, Jan-Feb 1980, p4.

Incompetent but well-connected: on the “Blunt affair”. New Age, No. 18, Jan-Feb 1980, p4.

Anti-racist demonstration a success. On London demonstration of 25 November. New Age, No. 18, Jan-Feb 1980, p5.

Haughey takes over: change of collaborators. New Age, No. 18, Jan-Feb 1980, p6.

Steel offer: capitalist logic. New Age, No. 18, Jan-Feb 1980, p6.

Lessons of Zimbabwean revolution. Contributed. New Age, No. 18, Jan-Feb 1980, p7.

Kampuchea solidarity: Stockholm conference 17 to 18 November. By Keith Bennett, writing as Keith Anderson. New Age, No. 18, Jan-Feb 1980, p7.

Afghanistan: Soviet Union get out! By Keith Bennett. New Age, No. 18, Jan-Feb 1980, p8.

China speaks out: statement by Deng Xiaoping, 6 January 1980. New Age, No. 18, Jan-Feb 1980, p8.

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