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WHEN George Galloway addressed the United States Senate Committee earlierthis year, answering charges that he had benefited from Iraqi oil m...

Review By Andy Brooks Under the Wire : William Ash, Bantam Press, London 2005. Hbk, 292pp, illus.£16.99 Bill Ash, the Marxist writer, is wel...

Review by Paul Barrett Night of the Demon – a classic film you may have missed. IN 1911 M R James wrote a disturbing short story called The ...

THE LONDON Assembly last week issued a report warning that the risk of major flooding in London is not being taken seriously enough – especi...

SERVICES on the London Underground Northern Line have been seriously disrupted throughout last week after drivers from both Aslef and the RM...

LONDON LABOUR MP Glenda Jackson last week said she would be prepared to act as a “stalking horse” in order to trigger a leadership contest w...

AROUND 60 people packed the meeting room at London's Marx House last Monday, organised by the British preparatory committee to celebrate...

REVIEW by Ray Jones Revolutionary Democracy, Vol XI, No 2, September 2005. £2.50 plus 50p P&P. NCP Lit, PO Box 73, London SW11 2PQ. THER...

by Theo Russell LONDON Mayor Ken Livingstone has joined with Liberty, key Muslim and Sikh organisations, community organisations, faith lead...

RAIL unions are calling for extra safety measures on London Underground’s Northern Line after an inspection revealed that a safety device wa...

AN OLD BAILEY judge last week imposed record fines totalling £13.5 million on rail companies for their part in the Hatfield rail disaster. T...

THE DISPUTE between the Heathrow catering company Gate Gourmet and the workers it sacked last August after deliberately provoking them into ...

AROUND 80,000 protesters took to the streets of London last Saturday to call for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq in a march from ...

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 ...