This issue of New Age reports on the anti-racist upsurge and police brutality following National Front marches, including the death of Blair Peach in Southall. It covers post-general election analysis focusing on the unchanged nature of the state and capitalist interests despite government changes. The content also includes industrial actions by Post Office workers rejecting a pay deal, international solidarity in the printers' strike at The Times, tenant struggles with rent payments and council issues, opposition to the racist use of contraceptive Depo-Provera, and anti-racist organizing and challenges in Hackney, including community defense organizations and conflicts with Trotskyist groups.