Ray Collins (Labour Party General Secretary) and Sonny Leong (Chair, Chinese For Labour) Fancy “refreshing the Labour brand”? The Labour training session at the weekend was a long-overdue attempt, pioneered by Chinese For Labour’s chair Sonny Leong, to engage the Chinese, Britain’s third-largest ethnic minority, in mainstream politics in order to find “credible” candidates for […]
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A brilliant piece by John Harris here, exposes the right-wing lies pushed by the ConDem media wing about the cuts. The students who stormed Millbank Tory headquarters on Wednesday are the canaries down the mine. They indicate the level of protest to come when the cuts bite. Greedy bastards such as the tax-avoiding billionaire Philip
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Yes, that’s a great idea. Wear poppies on a trade visit to China in the 150th anniversary year marking the end of the Opium Wars when Britain forced cheap Bengal opium on the Chinese people at the point of a gun. Prime Minister David Cameron may think he is remembering the dead of World Wars
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Anna Chen – 11 November 2010 David Cameron Opium Wars snub Yes, that’s a great idea, David Cameron, British PM. Wear poppies on a trade visit to China in the 150th anniversary year marking the end of the Opium Wars when Britain forced cheap Bengal opium on the Chinese people at the point of a
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You can hear me talking about Hollywood legend Anna May Wong this Sunday on the BBC World Service’s The Forum at 9am. Chaired by Bridget Kendall, I’m on with Professor Dimitar Sasselov, discussing Super-earths, and Kwame Anthony Appiah on honour revolutions. Bob From Brockley tells me there’s a chance to see Anna May Wong on
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Pic by Harpy Marx Only a slave has no right to withdraw their labour. But 5,500 brave men and women threatened with the sack have been denied the right to defend their jobs. And now in two separate incidents, fire service managers have physically attacked striking firefighters, one driving a car into the Croydon picket
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