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Robin Birley, pictured here in 2001, has been accused of suspending workers who demanded the London living wage
AN ELITE private club in Mayfair run by a Boris Johnson donor and defender of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is being accused of suspending workers who demanded the London living wage.
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) says eight of its members are being victimised after organising for better pay at Loulou’s, an exclusive venue on 5 Hertford Street.
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Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
While Hardie, MacDonald and Wilson faced down war pressure from their own Establishment, today’s leadership appears to have forgotten that opposing imperial adventures has historically defined Labour’s moral authority, writes KEITH FLETT