Britain
Britain: Financial pain and insecurity for millions of families in 2009
By Julie Hyland, January 2, 2009
A report from the British Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development said that 2009 will be the worst for job losses in at least 20 years, with some 300,000 workers laid off in the months leadin...
Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British general strike
Part Two
By Chris Marsden, December 29, 2008
Bereft of any revolutionary guidance from the Communist Party of Great Britain, the working class had no possibility of arming itself against the role of the lefts who were being continually boosted u...
Britain: New wave of human BSE/vCJD feared
By Barry Mason, December 27, 2008
Britain faces the spectre of a second wave of deaths from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease vCJD as a result of people, overwhelmingly young adults, consuming meat from cattle infected with BSE, or Ma...
Britain: A revealing exchange on a national unity government
By Julie Hyland, December 24, 2008
A revealing exchange took place in the Guardian newspaper earlier this month between former Labour minister Frank Field and veteran Labourite Tony Benn on the prospects for a government of national un...
Britain: Labour government white paper introduces draconian attacks on benefit claimants
By Robert Stevens, December 23, 2008
The Labour government’s welfare reform bill represents the most draconian attack in decades on the unemployed, the disabled, and hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable benefit claimants.
UK: Trade unions at Corus offer yet another pay cut
By Simon Whelan, December 19, 2008
The December 10 revelation by James Pickard of the Financial Times that the trade unions GMB, Community and Unison had offered Corus Steel a ten percent pay cut prompted heated denials.
British economy sinks like a stone
By Jean Shaoul, December 18, 2008
Every day brings new indicators that the economic crisis engulfing Britain is much worse and developing far more rapidly than either the government or the economic pundits have acknowledged. This has ...
Britain: Brown announces pull-out from Iraq, more troops to Afghanistan
By Harvey Thompson and Julie Hyland, December 18, 2008
Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a “surprise” visit to Iraq yesterday, to announce a withdrawal of UK forces by July 2009.
Britain: Jury verdict over killing of Jean Charles de Menezes demolishes police lies
By Paul Mitchell, December 16, 2008
Jurors have rejected police claims that Jean Charles de Menezes was lawfully killed and returned an open verdict. The decision was the most damaging outcome possible for the Metropolitan Police after ...
Britain: Woolworths and MFI go bust
By Robert Stevens, December 1, 2008
In the past week, two of Britain’s most well established retail chains, Woolworths and MFI, have gone bust.
Britain: New round of job losses announced as part of global cutbacks
By Julie Hyland, November 24, 2008
Last week saw a fresh wave of job losses in the UK, some 3,600 in total, as part of mainly global cutbacks. The latest announcements mean that in the last fortnight, major household names have announc...
British court ruling increases risk of home repossession
By Mike Head, November 17, 2008
A British court ruling allowing lenders to seize properties after only two missed mortgage payments has made a mockery of claims by the Brown government to be protecting ordinary people from losing th...
