14.02.2013

Appeal from the editor

Peter Manson reports to our readers

As readers will have observed, last week, the Weekly Worker carried an apology for an article we published in January 2012. We have agreed to pay damages to the complainant and we have also incurred considerable costs running into the thousands of pounds.

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