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Russian fury at NATO’s Black Sea moves
by New Worker correspondent
A RUSSIAN warship fired warning shots at a Royal Navy destroyer that had violated Russia’s territorial waters this week, The Kremlin is now calling on the imperialists to scrap NATO naval war-games off the Russian coast following rising tension in the Black Sea this week.
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Russian Fury at NATO’s Black Sea moves
The Working Day
by New Worker correspondent
LAST WEEK the TUC released a report on The Future of Flexible Work, something which it thinks is a good thing. Flexible working hours (FWH) means that people do not need to clock in at 9:00 and of at 17:00 with an hour for lunch. It can allow people to come in at 8:00 or 10:00 and leave at 16:00 or 18:00. Thy can have a half hour for lunch or two hours and work late. Doing many long working days can be rewarded with extra holiday time.
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The Working Day
Honouring Kim Jong Il
by New Worker correspondent
KOREAN solidarity activists met online last Saturday to mark the 57th anniversary of the start of work of dear leader Kim Jong Il at the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea (WPK) in 1964, and also the 20th anniversary of the Korean Friendship Association (KFA) UK.
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Honouring Kim Jong Il
Doing Time
Review by Ben Soton
FOR THE RECORD I have spent time in prison…teaching literacy and IT skills to inmates at HMP Winchester. Prison is also the subject the BBC Sunday night drama Time by Jimmy McGovern. For those in Her Majesty’s Prisons time is something they indeed have plenty of. The main character Mark Cobden, played by Sean Bean, is a guilt-ridden former teacher serving a four-year sentence for a drink-driving offence in which he killed a cyclist, whilst the drama contains a variety of sub-plots revolving around the lives of other inmates and prison officers.
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Doing Time