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Police predict ‘summer of rage’ A SENIOR London police officer last week predicted that growing numbers of people losing their jobs and home...

Friends and comrades of Stella Moutafis braved the harsh weather last Saturday to pay their last respects to the wonderful woman who died so...

MEMBERS and supporters of the Stop the War Coalition in Bristol and Lewisham last weekend challenged bans on raising humanitarian aid for th...

The British Museum has celebrated the launch of Shanghai Week in London with the opening of Treasures from Shanghai, a spectacular collectio...

By Andy Brooks Solidarity and cultural events big and small are taking place up and down the country to mark the 50th anniversary of the Cub...

AMBASSADORS, religious leaders, war veterans, local dignitaries, an MP, a union leader, communists and other progressives gathered last Tues...

THE CIVIL Service union PCS last week expressed anger at Government decision to go ahead with a third runway at Heathrow. Other unions, Uni...

by Daphne Liddle AROUND 100,000 protesters braved sub-zero temperatures and blistering winds last Saturday to take part in the biggest publi...

by Daphne Liddle THOUSANDS of people gathered last Saturday in the wintry sunshine on London’s Embankment to join the rapidly-organised prot...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! all the best for 2008 the next issue of the New Worker will be out on 8th January 2009

NEW COMMUNIST Party leader Andy Brooks and Robert Laurie from the Central Committee attended a celebration at the Marx Memorial Library ...

by Andy Brooks THE PASSING of a comrade is a sad event at any time. It is much, much more so when that comrade’s life is cut short in the pr...

TUC GENERAL secretary Brendan Barber last Saturday told the annual Progress conference at TUC Congress House in London that “it’s time to di...

THE OUTGOING Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Ian Blair, last week issued a warning to politicians that they must give “breathin...

THE FALL-OUT from the Baby-P case has begun to hit various officers and staff at the London Borough of Haringey with blame and recrimination...

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...