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Workers at the Katsouris food processing plants in north west London gathered for a mass meeting at the Brent Indian Association last Saturday.

Activists around Britain hit the streets last weekend to make sure there is the biggest possible turnout for the Time To Go demonstration in Manchester on 23 September.

"An autopilot foreign policy has tied Britain to the US. Just as worrying is the ideological preference for private sector solutions."TUC leader Brendan Barber, breaks from his usually supportive stance to attack Tony Blair’s policies

Over the previous two columns, I have argued that the British prison system is shot through with abuse and oppression and not "fit for purpose".

Workers in Bangladesh staged a national hartal (general strike) on Wednesday of last week. The victorious strike followed the shooting dead of six demonstrators protesting against a plan by a British company to construct an opencast mine.

Tony Blair’s grip on political power is lurching deeper into crisis this week as the deaths of British soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq increase.

Britain’s top businessmen can look forward to retiring on pensions of more than £10,000 a week, with many on nearly £20,000 a week, according to research released this week.

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Evelyn Dunbar was the only British woman artist paid by the government to record the Second World War. She painted unsentimental images of the Women’s Land Army that are easily recognised, yet she is largely forgotten in discussions of Second World War art today.

‘I came to Britain in 2000, before Poland joined the European Union (EU). So I had to wait six months before I could get the right papers and was allowed to work.

Workers at the Adecco agency staff working for the British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS) in Workington, Cumbria, are voting over recognition of the PCS union.

There is a full-scale war going on in Afghanistan, shattering British government claims that its troops would act as "peacekeepers".