london communists

by Edwin Bentley Balmaidens : Lynne Mayers, The Hypatia Trust, Penzance, 2004. illus., pp246, £20.00. Capitalists don’t delude themselves. T...

HOPES of an end to the gate Gourmet dispute rose last week after negotiations between the company and the Transport and General Workers’ Uni...

by Ray Jones Resistance in practice: the philosophy of Antonio Negri . Eds Timothy S Murphy and Abdul-Karim Mustapha. Pluto Press, 07453 23...

BRITISH Airways last Wednesday began legal proceedings against three shop stewards who had been involved in the unofficial walkout of baggag...

BOOK REVIEW by Andy Brooks George Orwell: Enigmatic Socialist: Editor, Paul Flewers, 192pp, £6.00. Socialist Platform, London 2005. “JU...

by Alan Rogers SOUTHALL New Communist Party ran its usual stall last Saturday. On the basis of previous experience comrades had produced jar...

WHILE TUC conference was in session on Monday several hundred Gate Gourmet workers staged a rally outside the conference hall. Most of them ...

THE TRANSPORT and General Workers’ Union is planning to table an emergency motion at the annual TUC conference in two weeks’ time calling fo...

by Theo Russell A NEW campaign to challenge the culture of brutality and secrecy within the British armed forces was launched last Monday at...

THE PCS civil service union last week issued ballot papers for a one-day London wide strike followed by discontinuous action over planned Go...

GATE GOURMET, the Heathrow airline catering company that sacked 675 workers on 10th August after deliberately provoking a walkout in a strat...

The facts on the ground by Robert Laurie Maqlubeh or Facts on the Ground, London: Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association, 2005 pp. 28. £2.00 ...

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...