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This issue of New Age, a monthly paper of the Communist Workers' Movement published in March 1979, focuses on the struggle of low-paid workers in Britain, particularly in the public sector, demanding a minimum £60 weekly wage. It covers trade union actions, government-TUC relations, industrial challenges at Plessey Liverpool, civil servants' pay struggles, tenants' resistance to racism, women's demonstrations against violence, and black people's organizing against racism and police brutality in Hackney. Additional topics include Enoch Powell's controversial political stances and a Bangladeshi workers' cultural evening.

This issue of New Age, the paper of the Communist Workers' Movement, covers topics including the Lebanese conflict and Palestinian resistance to Israeli aggression, critiques of British industrial conditions at Leyland and strikes such as at Claridges hotel, discussions on the Official Secrets Act and prosecution of The Leveller magazine, analysis of capitalist culture through film criticism, the expansion of MacDonald's and its labor practices, and political commentary on Soviet and American imperialism in the Middle East.