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Workers IN the PCS civil service workers’ union at the British Library in London and Boston Spa have reached the end of their tether.

UNISON UNION members from around Britain were set to show their support for social workers in Liverpool on all-out strike on Saturday of this week.

THE IRAQI Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) leadership appears to have succeeded in convincing some union leaders in Britain that it is a staunch opponent of the occupation. Alas, this self projected image is false.

WORKERS AT major construction contractor Laing O’Rourke are rejecting the company’s pay and conditions package at site after site across Britain.

TONY BLAIR has made a secret deal with George Bush to site US missiles in Britain as part of the US’s "Son of Star Wars" programme. The deal was revealed by the Independent on Sunday.

Not so long ago British hostage Ken Bigley was killed. His brother Paul said that the British government was responsible for his death.

I AM bloody angry with the British government. After the 1991 Gulf War a Tory MP said that the country owed British soldiers a debt of honour.

58Philippe Cherbonnier Appalled by the news of the 58 Chinese people who suffocated in a lorry on the journey to Dover in 2000, Philippe Cherbonnier set out to explore the immigration debate in Britain.

THERE’S A myth that, while there’s trouble in Iraq, the government is doing well over poverty and equality at home. So what do people in Britain earn?

"DRAT THE British!" Karl Marx once said in frustration at his London exile. When the European revolutions of 1848 began to crumble Marx was forced to come to London.

ROSE GENTLE’S 19 year old son Gordon was killed serving with the British army in Iraq.

BABAR AHMAD, the British Muslim IT worker imprisoned without charge in HMP Woodhill, appeared in court last week for an extradition hearing to the US.