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by Daphne Liddle AROUND 100 family friends and supporters of Paul Coker, who died in mysterious circumstances in Plumstead police station on...

THREE-WAY talks between the Transport and General Workers’ Union, the airline catering company Gate Gourmet and British Airways broke down i...

LONDON Underground managers and police officers last week clashed over the disappearance of crucial CCTV footage at Stockwell station on the...

AMBALA, a food company based in Stratford, east London, faces legal action over claims that it mistreated workers during a pay dispute earli...

Our Communist Heritage Four new entries including the pub that Lenin used; streets named after Lenin and Marx;Brixton prison and British com...

BRITISH AIRWAYS services from Heathrow Airport last weekend were brought to a standstill by an unofficial walkout by baggage handlers in sol...

by Rob Laurie A JOINT delegation lead by Len Aldis, Secretary of the British Vietnam Friendship Society, which included Dr Madeline Sharp of...

by Caroline Colebrook GATEWAY Gourmet (GG), the American owned company at the centre of the strike that paralysed British Airways services f...

by Daphne Liddle THE REPUTATION of London’s anti-terrorist police is in shreds after leaked documents from an inquiry by the Independent Po...

Robin Cook 1946–2005 THE UNTIMELY DEATH of the Scottish MP Robin Cook last weekend has been a bitter blow to the parliamentary oppos...

POLICE forces throughout Britain have recorded a steep rise in racist attacks since last month’s London bombings. Most are directed at Musli...

by Rob Laurie LAST SATURDAY lunchtime saw well over 200 people assemble in London’s Tavistock Square to commemorate the 60th anniversary of ...

The New Worker is available in London at: * Housemans Peace Bookshop , 5 Caledonian Road N1 * West London Trade Union Club , 33-35 Hig...

by Daphne Liddle THE NEO-Nazi British Nationalist Party last week were well beaten in local council by-elections in the Becontree ward of Ba...

by Caroline Colebrook “DON’T try to tell us that the United States war in Iraq played no part in the London bombings,” said Labour MP John...

by Robert Laurie   LAST SATURDAY saw many members and supporters of the International Brigade Memorial Trust gather at the memorial in Londo...

by Renée Sams NEARLY 1,000 people gathered in Russell Square last Sunday not far from where the suicide bombers killed over 50 people on 7th...

by Daphne Liddle HOME SECRETARY Charles Clarke last Thursday, a few hours after the bombs that rocked London, admitted that identity cards c...

by Caroline Colebrook LONDON Mayor Ken Livingstone last week responded to last Thursday’s bombings, saying: “I want to say one thing to the ...

London’s transport system was brought to a standstill last Thursday by a wave of terror bombings that killed scores of innocent working peop...