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USUALLY WHEN the Olympics are staged by one of the big countries there is an appeal to people to "rally round the flag", and highlighting the medals the home team could win.

THE TWO-DAY strike of 98,000 workers in job centres and benefits offices at the end of last month was the best supported yet.

NEW LABOUR may have given up on tackling the growing gulf between rich and poor, but it still pretends to be progressive on issues of inequality between men and women.

WORKERS AT the Edrington whisky group in Glasgow were set to strike again on Thursday and Friday of this week.

Babar Ahmad was arrested last December in one of home secretary David Blunkett’s "terror" raids. The 30 year old IT worker from Tooting, south London, was released without charge a week later.

IN BOLIVIA in October 2003 hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants surround the governmental palace in La Paz. They demanded the resignation of Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozado, the country’s hated millionaire president. Within days, he was forced to resign and flee to Miami in disgrace.

SOME 4,500 members of the GPMU union in the paper industry have voted for industrial action over pay.

‘I want you to know the truth about my son. Despite everything that has happened, all the lies and ridiculous allegations, I still believe justice will be done.

A MYSTERY has been unfolding. It’s not so much a whodunnit as a howdunnit.

WORKERS AT First Group buses in Sheffield and South Yorkshire have won a major victory after three weeks of indefinite strike action.

Ashfaq Ahmad was speaking at a conference in Tooting, south London, last Sunday to protest against harassment of Muslims by police.

SkinnyMan has been a stalwart of the underground British hip-hop scene for years, working with his crew Mud Family.