Wapping Dispute - New Online Archive‏

The News International dispute in 1986-87 was a turning point in the history of the British press. The sacking of virtually an entire workforce by the owner Rupert Murdoch introduced the age of corporate control that today determines what people are told about the world by the professional media. 5500 workers were sacked in a ruthlessly planned union busting exercise aided and abetted by the right wing EETPU union. An online archive of the dispute is now available including audio interviews with strikers, documents and photographs:
www.wapping-dispute.org.uk 

Brooks arrest brings justice for Daniel Morgan closer

Private investigator Daniel Morgan was murdered with an axe in a pub car park in south London in 1987.
Recent investigations by journalists into the hacking scandal have revealed close links between News of the World, corrupt police officers and suspects in the Daniel Morgan murder investigation.

Cameron two steps away from the axe?

What links David Cameron to a murder in a South London pub in 1987 the year the News International dispute at Wapping ended? And could this be one of the reasons he will be forced to quit? Pressure is mounting.

Murdoch Protest today at Parliament

The Coalition of Resistance is calling on all its supporters who can get there to join today's protest against the Murdoch empire, its corruption of our democracy, and its relentless attacks on working people, public services, and the welfare state – at 1.30PM Portcullis House Westminster http://www.coalitionofresistance.org.uk/2011/07/protest-when-murdoch-comes-to-parliament-19-july/

Cameron must resign

Even before the trials and the enquiries it's clear at least in terms of Coulson, who was - along with another journalist - arrested the other day, apparently on suspicion of bribing police officers, and has been bailed till October. David Cameron, as ever, has insisted that even though it didn't work out, he feels he had been right to offer Coulson 'a second chance'. And, it would appear, to have kept him on as long as he did, and to call him a friend even now, despite...

A Headline We Never Thought We’d Write.. Well done FORD

Celebrities so called, having problems with Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers were never going to excite us. Since ninety plus per cent of tabloid output consists of gossip relayed by a member of Cheryl Popstar’s inner circle or an intimate friend of Robbie Football-Millionaire or one of Jenny Megastar’s crew, the idea that their privacy had been invaded was a strange one.