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by Daphne Liddle THOUSANDS of peace protesters gathered in Trafalgar Square on Monday morning to call for an immediate withdrawal of British...

by a New Worker Correspondent THE MARCHMONT Centre in central London was packed on Sunday for a Friends of Korea celebration to mark the fou...

by Robert Laurie LAST THURSDAY Camden Trades Council and Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association held a well attended public meeting on “Racis...

JURORS at the Old Bailey last week were told that the Metropolitan Police force was guilty of "fundamental failures" in its "...

At the Cutty Sark Gardens in Greenwich, next to the fire-damaged veteran tea clipper – now under wraps and under repair – a large group of P...

THE UNITED Campaign to Repeal the Anti-Trade Union Laws is organising a mass rally and lobby of Parliament for Thursday 18th October in supp...

Derick McGroarty stared in astonishment at a 2,200-year-old, life-size standing terracotta soldier. "It's fabulous to see them face...

NCP leader Andy Brooks and other friends of Korea met members of the art world at the Democratic Korean embassy in London last weekend at th...

COMRADES and friends gathered in the Marchmont Community Centre in north London last Thursday to discuss the complex struggles taking place ...

NUJ photographer challenges police SOLICITORS Hickman and Rose have served papers on Sir Ian Blair, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Pol...

Safety protest on the tube TUBE DRIVERS last week refused to operate trains on the Central Line after brake parts fell off a train on to tra...

by New Worker correspondent HOME-MADE marmalade, second-hand books and home-grown plants all sold well at last Saturday’s traditional peace ...

MEMBERS and supporters of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, in conjunction with the Boycott Israeli Goods campaign and Jews Boycotting Isra...

STRIKE ACTION by more than 2,300 Metronet maintenance workers was suspended late on Tuesday night after more than eight hours of talks betwe...

LONDON Mayor Ken Livingstone last Thursday at the capital’s City Hall on the Thames made an emotional apology for the City’s role in the tra...

Transport for London is bidding to bring Metronet, the failed private consortium contacted to carry our maintenance on most of the London Un...

COMRADES and supporters of the New Worker came together last weekend in Charlton, south-east London, for a fundraising garden party. Afte...

NEARLY 3,000 members of the unions RMT, TSSA and Unite have voted by massive margins for strike action to defend jobs and conditions at fail...

by Robert Laurie Last Saturday saw veteran communist Jack Shapiro honoured by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) at a ...

by Daphne Liddle THE GOVERNMENT is planning to use its most draconian anti-terror legislation against a broad coalition of groups – under th...