This issue covers the struggle of low paid hotel and restaurant workers in London, anti-fascist protests against National Front meetings, analysis of Soviet-Cuban military support in Ethiopia, concerns about rising fascism and unemployment in Britain, historical perspectives on fascism, futuristic visions for Southern Gas workers, financial troubles of the British Steel Corporation, critiques of union leadership, and coverage of the Palestinian issue especially the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre and its aftermath.

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.