Britain
Credit ratings agency gives verdict on British economy
By Jean Shaoul, November 17, 2009
Credit ratings agency Fitch warns that Britain could lose its prized AAA status as a sovereign borrower.
Britain: The Cambridge review
A damning refutation of Labour’s education lies
By Tania Kent, November 16, 2009
A recently published study, the “Cambridge Primary Review: Children, their World, their Education”, is a damning critique of the destructive impact of Labour’s policies on an entire generation o...
Britain: Socialist Workers Party colludes in postal strike sellout
By Tony Robson, November 14, 2009
Among the 17 members of the executive of the Communication Workers Union of Britain (CWU) who voted unanimously to call off the postal strikes scheduled for November 6 and 9 is union president and Soc...
BBC poll shows widespread disaffection with capitalism
By Julie Hyland, November 12, 2009
A global poll by the British Broadcasting Corporation shows widespread disaffection with the capitalist free-market, including a significant opposition to capitalism per se.
Right-wing campaign against Brown to ensure Afghan escalation
By Robert Stevens, November 12, 2009
Sections of the British armed forces and the pro-Conservative Party press are waging a concerted campaign for the drastic escalation of the war in Afghanistan.
London postal workers condemn strike sell-out by Communication Workers Union
By our correspondents, November 11, 2009
Reporters from the World Socialist Web Site have been talking to postal workers in London about the decision by the Communication Workers Union to call off the national postal strike.
Lockerbie: Human rights lawyer states Megrahi was framed
By Steve James, November 11, 2009
Leading British human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce believes that Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi, the only man accused and convicted of the 1988 bombing of PanAm flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, was fra...
Ratification of Lisbon Treaty provokes crisis for Britain’s Conservatives
By Julie Hyland, November 10, 2009
The Czech Republic’s ratification of the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty created a political maelstrom in the UK, exposing major divisions within the Conservative Party and the crisis facing Britis...
British government mounts world’s largest bank bailout
By Jean Shaoul, November 9, 2009
Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has just announced the world’s biggest bailout for a single bank in a bid to rescue the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
Britain: Communication Workers Union sabotages postal strike
By Chris Marsden, November 7, 2009
All strikes by Britain’s 120,000 postal workers were called off until at least the New Year, on the evening that two days of action were about to begin.
Fire Brigades Union capitulates to South Yorkshire management
By Simon Whelan, November 7, 2009
With just two hours to go before the next in a series of strikes by South Yorkshire firefighters, the Fire Brigade Union capitulated to management demands and called off the stoppages.
After troop deaths, British establishment rallies behind Afghan war
By Robert Stevens, November 7, 2009
The killing of five British soldiers by an Afghan policeman on Tuesday has only served to highlight the British government’s determination to remain in Afghanistan.
