London Progressive Journal Issue 25

New EU Immigration Policy is a Disgrace to Europe

It is estimated that approximately ten million Italians left their country between 1860 and 1950 to gamble on a better life in another hemisphere. They were not the only ones: other communities of Spaniards, Germans, French and Irish decided to look somewhere else to shun unemployment and hard...

Keep Tyne and Wear Metro Public, says RMT

The Tyne and Wear Metro is a public-sector success story and should be kept that way, delegates at the annual conference of Britain's biggest rail union insisted today.

As RMT's AGM called on the government to implement Labour policy on public ownership, RMT general secretary Bob Crow ...

Why We Oppose 42 Days

The government is trying to push a proposal through Parliament to increase the length of time a suspect can be detained without charge to 42 days. This is seen as an anti-terrorism measure. The proposal has triggered a lot of debate within the labour movement and in society as a whole. This de...

Mind-Forged Manacles

Which of these countries has the most prisoners per head of population? Sudan, Syria, China, Burma, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe or England and Wales? We win, or rather lose: I have ranked these countries in reverse order. On this measure, England and Wales have a more punitive judicial system than ...

Mail Order Cuts

A swathe of closures across the sorting offices of Royal Mail are heralding a new round of major cutbacks, as the company’s profits take a dive in the wake of deregulation.

Following a pre-tax loss of £279 million from last year, largely prompted by a major shift to private-sector comp...

Asylum Seeker Wins Judicial Review Against Deportation

Four month ago I reported on this site how Guy Njike (pictured), a hard-working London graduate who had escaped imprisonment and torture in his native Cameroon, was arrested in his lunch break and told he would be deported to Cameroon within days. Four months on the Home Office has not only ca...

Left In Vision Exhibition Opens 3rd - 7th July

Left in Vision 2 is an exhibition of work by left wing artists from across Britain and the world. It features Haitian street artist, Andre Eugene, Egyptian photographer Yasser Alwan, Chilean painter Hector Lopez-Kern and East End sculptor May Ayres, among over fifty artists represented.

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