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by New Worker correspondent THE LABOUR Representation Committee conference in London last Saturday, attended by hundreds of left-wing Lab...

ELECTRICIANS employed by EDF Energy working on the London Underground as “tester” technicians staged the first of two 36-hours strikes last ...

TORY London mayor Boris Johnson last week announced that several major Transport for London projects are to be scrapped and jobs could be lo...

by Robert Laurie LAST SUNDAY, in the grounds of the Imperial War Museum, the Soviet War Memorial Trust Fund held an Act of Remembrance which...

THE GREAT October Revolution is commemorated by communists all over the world and last weekend London was no exception at the NCP’s traditio...

MEMBERS of the International Brigade Association, trade unionists and other anti-fascists assembled in the evening on Tuesday 28th October a...

THE CHILDREN’S Secretary, Ed Balls, last week attacked the concept of a London living wage, which is currently set at £7.45 an hour as the r...

THE TUC last Saturday joined the United Friends and Families Campaign (UFFC) to protest about deaths in custody and to call on the Governmen...

The economic crisis, the "middle class", the health service and national liberation were looked at in depth at last weekend's...

HUNDREDS of pensioners from all parts of Britain descended on Westminster on Wednesday 22nd October to demand a serious increase in the basi...

TWO FARMERS from the West Bank village of Beit Fourik, Fouad and Fhed, are set to spend a week based in south-east London campaigning to rai...

SELLING the New Worker in Lewisham last week all the regular readers and sellers of other lefty papers were walking several inches above th...

THOUSANDS of protesters marched through London last Saturday to protest at the Government’s failure to meet its targets on reducing chilled ...

by Caroline Colebrook LONDON Mayor Boris Johnson faced harsh criticism last week from the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and from members of th...

Bus drivers take action. Members of the giant union Unite employed at 11 bus garages in London last week joined forces with 3,500 of their c...

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Strike ballot for Tube workers MEMBERS of the RMT transport union employed by the failed Tube maintenance company Metronet are balloting for...

by Alan Rogers FOR THE second time this year Southall New Communist Party set up its stall at the popular Peace Market. The previous week ha...

INFLATION-BUSTING fare increases are a short-sighted fix that will create more problems than they solve, London Underground’s biggest union ...

NCP LEADER Andy Brooks along with Central Committee members Daphne Liddle, Theo Russell and other comrades from London attended a meeting an...