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WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe : Britain
 
Politics & Economy
 

6 September 2008
Britain: Alistair Darling and the implosion of the Labour government

22 August 2008
Britain: Economy hit by inflation and threat of recession

20 August 2008
UK declares its support for Washington's anti-Russian campaign over Georgia

4 August 2008
Haltemprice & Howden by-election
Britain: Election official rejects complaint about missing SEP ballots

Britain: Ombudsman demands government fund for Equitable Life insurance and pension victims

24 July 2008
Glasgow East by-election: Stark social problems, poverty

Britain: Labour faces wipe-out after defeat in Glasgow East

23 July 2008
Labour facing by-election disaster in Glasgow

What does British Tory MP David Davis stand for?--Part 2
A glimpse into the real thinking of a "civil liberties" champion

22 July 2008
What does British Tory MP David Davis stand for?--Part 1
A glimpse into the real thinking of a "civil liberties" champion

17 July 2008
Britain: Local authority workers walk out over pay cut

12 July 2008
Britain: The significance of the Haltemprice and Howden by-election

Haltemprice & Howden by-election Britain:
Socialist Equality Party cheated of at least 50 votes

11 July 2008
Britain: SEP candidate Chris Talbot speaks at eve-of-poll meeting

10 July 2008
Britain: Vote Socialist Equality Party
Cast ballot for Chris Talbot in Haltemprice and Howden

Britain: Socialist Equality Party and Greens banned from David Davis eve-of-poll meeting on democratic rights

SEP candidate Chris Talbot addresses school students

9 July 2008
Haltemprice and Howden by-election hustings
Britain: Socialist Equality Party outlines differences with the Greens

8 July 2008
Britain: The economic downturn and the threat to civil liberties

Socialism and the defence of democratic rights
A reply to an attack on the Socialist Equality Party for standing in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election

5 July 2008
Haltemprice and Howden by-election
Britain: Socialist Equality Party campaign wins support for Chris Talbot's stand against David Davis

London Mayor Boris Johnson's return to "traditional Tory values"

4 July 2008
Haltemprice and Howden by-election
Britain: SEP speaks to voters in Cottingham and Willerby

2 July 2008
Haltemprice and Howden by-election Britain: SEP campaigns in Cottingham

1 July 2008
Britain's Haltemprice and Howden by-election: Guardian divided on response to David Davis

Britain: Scottish Labour Party leader Wendy Alexander resigns

30 June 2008
Britain: SEP campaign in Cottingham and Beverley

Haltemprice and Howden by-election Britain: Tony Benn defends his decision to back David Davis

27 June 2008
Britain: Cameron and David Davis come out in support of strike breaking

26 June 2008
Britain: SEP candidate officially registered for Haltemprice and Howden by-election

25 June 2008
Britain: Socialist Equality Party stands in by-election forced by David Davis
Vote Chris Talbot in Haltemprice and Howden

23 June 2008
Britain: SEP to stand in Haltemprice and Howden by-election

21 June 2008
Britain: Labour refuses to answer Davis's by-election challenge

20 June 2008
Britain: Shell tanker drivers' strike foreshadows summer of discontent

17 June 2008
Britain: Brown assures Bush more troops for Afghanistan, no Iraq withdrawal

10 June 2008
Scottish university fees scrapped, but thousands of students to repay lump sum

7 June 2008
Bradford & Bingley: Britain's banking crisis worsens

4 June 2008
Britain: Labour prepares ground for privatisation of postal service

3 June 2008
Britain: MPs concealing massive expenses claims

2 June 2008
Britain: Demand the release of Hicham Yezza

30 May 2008
Britain: Oppose deportation of Hicham Yezza

Britain: An interview with the manager of Hicham Yezza's defence campaign
"The Home Office acts like a faceless machine"

26 May 2008
Britain: House repossessions rising sharply

24 May 2008
Britain: Conservative victory in Crewe and Nantwich as Labour disintegrates

20 May 2008
Britain: ISSE addresses students during week of debates at the University of Sussex

17 May 2008
Britain: Labour's "re-launch" stymied by worsening economic forecast

15 May 2008
Britain: How the Socialist Workers Party rooted for Livingstone and Labour

10 May 2008
Britain: Welfare Reform Act to force sick and vulnerable into work

7 May 2008
Britain: Labour's electoral meltdown continues to worsen

29 April 2008
BBC documentary reveals government reckless in drive for nuclear weapons

28 April 2008
Britain: Scottish refinery workers strike

26 April 2008
Britain: Size of teachers' strike exceeds predictions
Teachers voice their anger at government policy

British government commits taxpayers to bailing out the banks

25 April 2008
UK, Birmingham City Council workers strike in "Single Status" dispute

24 April 2008
What does the hunger strike by Belfast shop stewards say about the trade unions?

23 April 2008
Britain's teachers and civil servants to take one-day strike action

22 April 2008
British government lied about 2007 Persian Gulf naval incident

15 April 2008
Britain: High Court rules government acted unlawfully in stopping BAe-Saudi arms inquiry

ISSE public meetings in Britain
May-June 1968--The lessons 40 years on

14 April 2008
Britain: Law Lords reject mothers' appeal for Iraq war inquiry

9 April 2008
Britain: Mortgage drought as economy faces plunge into recession

5 April 2008
Northern Ireland: The significance of Paisley's resignation and Adams's regret

1 April 2008
Britain: Postal unions push through attack on pensions

31 March 2008
Sarkozy strives to establish French-British axis

Britain: As Basra burns, Iraq inquiry call supported by just 12 Labour MPs

26 March 2008
Brown government promotes patriotism and militarism

21 March 2008
Britain: ISSE holds meetings on the fifth anniversary of Iraq war

Alan Thornett's denunciation of Trotskyism
Part two

20 March 2008
Alan Thornett's denunciation of Trotskyism
Part one

19 March 2008
The "White Season": The British Broadcasting Corporation's Pim Fortuyn moment

14 March 2008
London Mayoral elections: Labour's neo-cons and the left apologists for Ken Livingstone

11 March 2008
Correspondence on the impact of the credit crunch

3 March 2008
Britain's media fashions its "warrior prince"

29 February 2008
UK: Unions prepare to sell out jobs fight at Rolls-Royce

23 February 2008
Britain: government targets child asylum seekers

22 February 2008
UK government nationalises Northern Rock

18 February 2008
The impact of the credit crunch on British workers

16 February 2008
Britain's foreign secretary urges no retreat on imperialist militarism

14 February 2008
ISSE meetings in Britain to mark fifth anniversary of US-led invasion of Iraq

11 February 2008
Britain: Labour government minister bugged by police

2 February 2008
Britain: Rising fuel prices blight millions

29 January 2008
UK minister resigns in another funding scandal

22 January 2008
Britain: "Liar loans" drive hundreds of thousands into debt

19 January 2008
Omagh bombing trial: Hoey cleared, but little else clarified

17 January 2008
Tony Blair and the business of making money

16 January 2008
Britain: Prosecution of civil servant under Official Secrets Act fails

Britain: Who and what is the Policy Exchange think tank?

15 January 2008
Britain: Brown government set for conflict with public sector over pay and cuts

10 January 2008
Britain: Once again on the role of the "left" within the trade unions

9 January 2008
The fight for equal pay for women: Britain's Guardian defends union's dirty deals

8 January 2008
Britain: Brown government slashes science budget

2 January 2008
Watchdog warns that corporations' financial viability is at risk

31 December 2007
Britain: Arts Council to cut funds to 194 organisations

28 December 2007
The reality behind Britain's claims of military success in Iraq and Afghanistan

21 December 2007
Britain: Northern Rock crisis deepens

20 December 2007
Britain: Socialist Equality Party condemns arrest of Tommy Sheridan on perjury charges

19 December 2007
British students respond to ISSE showing of From Tsar to Lenin

6 December 2007
Letter from a worker in the UK sub-prime mortgages sector

5 December 2007
Britain: The postal workers dispute and the role of "left" groups in the CWU

3 December 2007
The Amis-Eagleton controversy: The British literary elite and the "war on terror"

1 December 2007
Britain: government cuts funding as bird flu outbreak is confirmed

28 November 2007
Britain: The real issues in the Oxford Union "free speech" debate

ISSE meetings in Britain to screen Tsar to Lenin
Documenting the last days of Tsarist Russia and the birth of the new Soviet Union

27 November 2007
The sell-off of Britain Plc: Revenue and Customs loses personal details of 25 million

24 November 2007
Britain: No central control over nuclear arsenal

20 November 2007
Britain: Brown reaffirms his pro-US credentials on Iran and Europe

15 November 2007
Britain's Respect-Unity coalition split: The collapse of an opportunist bloc

14 November 2007
International Students for Socialist Equality meetings in Britain
90 Years since the Russian Revolution

3 November 2007
Jean Charles de Menezes shooting: Metropolitan police found guilty of endangering the public

27 October 2007
Britain: Post workers speak out against union management agreement at Royal Mail

24 October 2007
Northern Rock: the crisis mounts for British government

23 October 2007
Britain: Oppose efforts by Communication Workers Union to end postal strike

Britain's Socialist Workers Party collaborates in union's betrayal of postal strikes

15 October 2007
Britain: Postal union agrees to sell-out deal with Royal Mail

12 October 2007
Britain: Demands for government intervention aimed at strangling post dispute

11 October 2007
British troops in Iraq to be cut to 2,500, states Brown

9 October 2007
Britain: Brown retreats from snap general election

5 October 2007
British Prime Minister Brown prepares for snap general election: A sign of mounting crisis

4 October 2007
Britain: Post union calls strike over paltry wage offer at Royal Mail
Works to sell "total flexibility" to membership

27 September 2007
Britain: Unions responsible for harsh conditions facing temporary agency workers

26 September 2007
Britain: Brown makes election appeal to Conservative voters

21 September 2007
International Students for Social Equality to hold series of meetings in Britain

20 September 2007
Northern Rock
Britain: Government attempts to stem banking crisis

17 September 2007
Credit crisis spreads as British bank collapses

12 September 2007
Britain: Brown gets smooth ride at Trades Union Congress

10 September 2007
Britain: Brown's "new politics" a cynical cover for authoritarianism

8 September 2007
As bosses' pay soars
Britain: Government and media rail against "selfish" strikes

6 September 2007
Britain's bosses take record £26.4 billion in bonuses: City takes lion's share

5 September 2007
RMT union suspends strike by London Underground maintenance workers

4 September 2007
Tensions with the US sharpen as Britain begins handover of Basra

3 September 2007
British government faces legal action over refusal to hold inquiry into London bombings

31 August 2007
Prison officers strike in England and Wales in defiance of High Court injunction

30 August 2007
Britain: Brown rules out Iraq troop withdrawal as top general speaks of a "generation of conflict"

25 August 2007
US fears of British pullout from Basra raise transatlantic tensions to new pitch

22 August 2007
Britain: Riot police attack Heathrow Airport protest

21 August 2007
British SWP covers for sell-out of postal workers strike

16 August 2007
Britain: Police use anti-terror powers against environmental protest

10 August 2007
Britain: Injunction granted against environmental protest at Heathrow Airport

Britain: government site responsible for foot and mouth outbreak

6 August 2007
Another cover-up of the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes

2 August 2007
Britain: Oxford residents tell of flood's impact

1 August 2007
Bush-Brown summit: Tensions but no policy shift by Britain

28 July 2007
The summer floods in Britain: Outmoded and decayed social infrastructure exposed

26 July 2007
Britain: Antiwar MP George Galloway suspended from parliament

25 July 2007
Britain: No one to be prosecuted over "cash for honours" allegations

24 July 2007
Britain: Iraq Commission rules out setting date for troop withdrawal

21 July 2007
British government and BAe Systems revealed as money launderer for Saudi Arabia

20 July 2007
The London bombing trial: How much did the security services know?

19 July 2007
Diplomatic tensions worsen after Britain expels Russian diplomats

17 July 2007
Wales: Nationalist party in government for the first time

12 July 2007
Britain's terror plot: What drove a doctor to become a suicide bomber?

British postal workers face political struggle against Brown's Labour government

6 July 2007
Britain: Brown's constitutional reform--a smokescreen for right-wing measures

5 July 2007
Britain: Brown seeks support for further attack on civil liberties

3 July 2007
Britain: The government's responsibility for last week's flood disaster

2 July 2007
Five arrests in London car bomb attempts and Glasgow Airport attack
Britain's terror alert raised to critical

Britain: Brown forms government including Liberals, ex-Conservatives, business, military and police figures

29 June 2007
Blair leaves office and becomes Bush's "peace envoy":
Sycophancy in parliament and an insult to world opinion

28 June 2007
Britain: Postal workers set for first national strike in 11 years

26 June 2007
Britain: New Labour's right-wing course to continue under Brown

21 June 2007
Twenty-five years since the Malvinas war

16 June 2007
Britain: Labour's deputy leader challengers present their tarnished wares

8 June 2007
British Army chiefs urge pullout from Iraq within 12 months

27 May 2007
Solidarity and the Scottish Socialist Party: What will follow from the collapse of the Scottish left?

23 May 2007
Britain's Guardian promotes Bush administration war propaganda against Iran

19 May 2007
Britain: The Guardian whitewash of Mr Blair

18 May 2007
Britain: Brown crowned as Blair's successor after no contest

15 May 2007
Britain: SEP leader addresses students on the legacy of Trotskyism

11 May 2007
Blair's legacy: Militarism abroad, social devastation at home

10 May 2007
Beyond the hyperbole, what next for Northern Ireland?

9 May 2007
British terror trial raises question of what MI5 knew about 2005 London bombings

1 May 2007
Britain: Irish model for Scotland and Wales means widening gap between rich and poor

12 April 2007
Britain: Anger at sailors selling stories forces government U-turn

10 April 2007
Freed British sailors allege torture by Iran: Why do the media ask no questions?

9 April 2007
SEP election campaign: Welsh Labour denounces antiwar opposition Local residents respond

6 April 2007
David North to refute falsifications of Trotsky's life at lectures in Scotland and Wales

5 April 2007
Socialist Equality Party of Britain on the ballot for May 3 elections

3 April 2007
Welsh Assembly elections:
SEP candidate discusses lessons of Burberry factory closure with workers

2 April 2007
A wanton cover-up
No British soldiers found guilty in murder of Iraqi worker

31 March 2007
Britain: Multimillionaire warns poverty threatens "violent reactions"--but don't tax the rich!

30 March 2007
Welsh Assembly elections: Burberry closes its Treorchy plant in area blighted by unemployment

29 March 2007
Britain: What is revealed by Labour's leadership contest?

27 March 2007
Election manifesto of the Socialist Equality Party of Britain

12 March 2007
Blair's offensive against welfare Government by the rich, for the rich

8 March 2007
British Army used under-18-year-old soldiers in Iraq occupation

1 March 2007
Britain: Blair seeks to deepen military alliance with Washington

27 February 2007
Britain: London antiwar demonstration downplays threat of war against Iran

London: Demonstrators express grave concern over Iran

26 February 2007
Guardian claims report clears London police chief of lying about De Menezes shooting

22 February 2007
Blair announces partial troop withdrawal from Iraq

17 February 2007
Britain's cash for honours scandal nears end game

UK government steps up assault on asylum-seekers

10 February 2007
Britain: Failure to suppress video of "friendly fire" killing of British soldier by US pilots

5 February 2007
Britain: SAS military forces unit to be permanently stationed in London

3 February 2007
Britain: Government seeks compromise with Church over same-sex adoption

1 February 2007
Britain: Members of Blair's inner circle arrested in "cash for honours" inquiry

30 January 2007
Britain: OECD rebukes Blair government for dropping Saudi bribery investigation

26 January 2007
Britain's senior prosecutor: no such thing as a "war on terror"

23 January 2007
The Trial of Tony Blair: What would it take to put the prime minister in the dock?

13 January 2007
Bush's Iraq "surge" met with despair in Britain

10 January 2007
On eve of London bombings: MPs told Britain faced no imminent threat

8 January 2007
Britain: Employment tribunal rules Gate Gourmet strike illegal

6 January 2007
Experts describe UK as world's "first onshore tax haven"

30 December 2006
Imperialist interests over-ride the "rule of law"
Blair government cancels British Aerospace-Saudi arms inquiry
Part two

29 December 2006
Imperialist interests over-ride the "rule of law"
Blair government cancels British Aerospace-Saudi arms inquiry
Part one

23 December 2006
Britain: Conservative Party feigns concern for the poor--the better to oppose welfare state benefits

21 December 2006
Britain's establishment mourns Chilean dictator Pinochet

Britain: High Court rejects Jean Charles de Menezes family appeal

20 December 2006
Blair's Middle East tour: "Jaw, Jaw" in furtherance of "War, War"

16 December 2006
Pakistan drops terrorism charges against key suspect in Heathrow bomb plot

Blair questioned in cash for peerages probe

12 December 2006
Britain: Blair stirs up Islamophobia

11 December 2006
Blair's Washington summit: What next for Britain in Iraq?

28 November 2006
British Airways and the Christian cross controversy

24 November 2006
Britain: Blair's overseas diplomacy highlights military crisis in Afghanistan

22 November 2006
UK military faces recruitment and retention crisis

16 November 2006
Britain: Blair advises policy shift in Middle East

15 November 2006
Britain: New terror warnings issued to justify policies of war and repression

3 November 2006
Britain: Blair government defeats calls for Iraq inquiry

25 October 2006
Former British home secretary admits calling for bombing of Al-Jazeera
UK government suppresses evidence that Bush did the same

20 October 2006
Blair joins the attack on Britain's Muslims

19 October 2006
Britain: legislation on equality for gays blocked

16 October 2006
Britain: Court finds ITN journalist Terry Lloyd murdered by US forces

14 October 2006
Head of British Army calls for Iraq withdrawal

Britain's liberal media lines up behind government's anti-Muslim offensive

7 October 2006
Britain: Jack Straw's anti-Muslim provocation

4 October 2006
Britain: Observer claims threats by Washington prompted Heathrow terror raids

2 October 2006
The political lessons of the split in the Scottish Socialist Party--Part 1

29 September 2006
British Labour Party conference: Brown stands up for health privatisation

28 September 2006
Blair's conference speech: Labour Party applauds its own gravedigger

25 September 2006
British Labour: A party of war and social reaction

23 September 2006
The struggle against war: Break with Labour and build a new socialist party
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)

21 September 2006
Britain: Promotion for police commander involved in de Menezes shooting

19 September 2006
Britain's Labour Party: No honour amongst thieves

16 September 2006
Iraqi asylum seekers deported from Britain

14 September 2006
Britain: Blair and Brown make a show of unity at TUC congress

12 September 2006
Blair: Beating Washington's war drum in the Middle East

8 September 2006
Britain: Internal party revolt seeks Blair's removal

7 September 2006
Britain's largest water utility cuts jobs by 25 percent

5 September 2006
UK Energy Review: A policy made by big business
Part 2

4 September 2006
UK Energy Review: A policy made by big business
Part 1

2 September 2006
Britain: Young solider commits suicide over Iraq war

26 August 2006
Britain: questions remain over alleged terror plot

22 August 2006
UK terror scare: Airlines threaten legal action against British government

21 August 2006
Families of UK soldiers killed in Iraq mount political, legal challenge to Blair government

19 August 2006
An officially induced panic: UK terror scare sparks wave of mini-scares

17 August 2006
Contradictions, anomalies, questions mount in UK terror scare

16 August 2006
Letters on the London terror arrests

14 August 2006
After Heathrow: What accounts for the threat of terrorism?

11 August 2006
Britain's airline terror plot: Questions that need to be answered

10 August 2006
The conflict in Lebanon and the standpoint of the working class

2 August 2006
Blair, Murdoch and the oligarchy

28 July 2006
Britain: Mounting criticism of Blair over Lebanon

26 July 2006
Socialist Equality Party to hold public meetings in Britain
Oppose US/UK-backed Israeli war against Lebanon!

19 July 2006
Britain: No one to be held accountable for police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes

15 July 2006
The "cash for peerages" scandal and the decay of British democracy

7 July 2006
One year on: Lessons of the London bombings

4 July 2006
Britain: Plundering of public sector at heart of 'loans-for-peerages' scandal

1 July 2006
Britain: Union calls off strike action by supermarket workers

28 June 2006
Britain: Former home secretary Charles Clarke questions Blair's survival

22 June 2006
Britain: Book alleges US sent MI5 detailed file on London bomber Khan

17 June 2006
How Blair's government fleeces British workers on behalf of business
Plundering the Public Sector

15 June 2006
Britain: Did police shoot to kill in Forest Gate anti-terror raid?

13 June 2006
Britain: Lessons of the Forest Gate anti-terror raid

10 June 2006
Britain: Soldiers refusing to serve in Iraq face possible life sentence

5 June 2006
Britain: Man shot in police "terror raid"

2 June 2006
Britain and South Africa accused of 'rendering' terror suspects

29 May 2006
Scottish Socialist Party leader jailed

24 May 2006
Britain's "Euston Manifesto": Ex-liberals for imperialism and war

23 May 2006
English council elections: "Fascist threat" exaggerated to channel support back behind Labour

22 May 2006
Britain: Blair pledges to override Human Rights Act

19 May 2006
A letter and reply on Britain's "New Labour" Party

17 May 2006
Britain's Compass group: Former Blair acolytes seek to rescue New Labour

13 May 2006
Britain: More official lies and evasions on London bombings

9 May 2006
Britain: the political issues behind Labour's factional warfare

6 May 2006
Tony Blair reshuffles Cabinet after Labour's local election debacle

4 May 2006
Britain: Leading Labourites play the race card

28 April 2006
Britain: Blair denounces liberal critics for opposing attacks on democratic rights

22 April 2006
British military doctor court martialed for refusing to serve in Iraq

A mea culpa on Iraq by pro-war journalist Johann Hari

20 April 2006
Britain: Documentary reveals plan for coup against Wilson Labour government--Part 2

19 April 2006
Britain: Documentary reveals plan for coup against Wilson Labour government--Part 1

11 April 2006
MI5 colluded with CIA extraordinary renditions from Britain

3 April 2006
US secretary of state meets angry Iraq war protests in England

29 March 2006
Britain: More than one million strike over cuts in pension provision, but unions limit protest

28 March 2006
Local government employees in Britain strike to defend pension provision
For a European-wide strategy to defend workers' social gains

27 March 2006
Britain: More evidence suggests July 7 bombings were preventable

24 March 2006
Britain: Blair sets out ideological justification for new wars of aggression

21 March 2006
Britain: The "loans for peerages" scandal and the terminal decline of New Labour

20 March 2006
Europe: antiwar protests draw largest numbers in London and Rome

Britain: government seeks wide-ranging powers to bypass parliament

17 March 2006
WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
New Labour and the decay of democracy in Britain--Part Two

16 March 2006
WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
New Labour and the decay of democracy in Britain--Part One

Britain: Tessa Jowell and the politics of kleptocracy

11 March 2006
Britain: Liberal Democrats' new leader shifts party to the right

9 March 2006
Inquiry into police killing at Ipperwash implicates Tory government

7 March 2006
Britain: Culture secretary embroiled in Silvio Berlusconi bribery scandal

4 March 2006
Britain: Behind the suspension of London Mayor Ken Livingstone

1 March 2006
British defence secretary offers a rationalisation for war crimes

27 February 2006
Britain: Special Branch detain documentary actors and former Guantánamo prisoners

16 February 2006
Britain: Why did it take so long to bring Abu Hamza to trial?

14 February 2006
Video shows British Army brutality in Iraq

11 February 2006
Political issues raised by British National Party trial

8 February 2006
Saudi Arabia alerted Britain of terror attack prior to London bombings

3 February 2006
One hundredth British military death in Iraq

21 January 2006
Britain: Report into death of Jean Charles de Menezes handed to Crown Prosecution Service

12 January 2006
Imperialist apologetics from Johann Hari
Independent
journalist who attacked Harold Pinter turns on World Socialist Web Site

11 January 2006
Britain: former top general calls for Blair's impeachment over Iraq war

9 January 2006
Britain: Blair government refuses public inquiry into biggest fire in Europe

4 January 2006
London Underground workers strike over new working patterns

21 December 2005
Britain: Facts and myths about Turner's plans for pensions--Part 2

20 December 2005
Britain: Facts and myths about Turner's plans for pensions--Part 1

15 December 2005
Britain: President of the Royal Society makes outspoken defence of science

14 December 2005
Britain's law lords reject use of torture evidence

12 December 2005
Explosions rip through British oil depot

8 December 2005
Britain: Former law lord says US "guilty of lawlessness on a truly grand scale"

3 December 2005
Britain: Two charged under Secrets Act for leaking Bush threat to bomb Al Jazeera

29 November 2005
Guardian newspaper forced to retract Noam Chomsky interview

24 November 2005
British government threatens prosecution to suppress claim that Bush sought to bomb Al Jazeera

11 November 2005
Answer British Terrorism Bill with a class-based defence of democratic rights

9 November 2005
Britain: Iraq murder court-martial collapses

7 November 2005
Britain's Railtrack: shareholders flex their muscles against government

4 November 2005
British government and security agencies seek to legitimise torture

3 November 2005
Britain: Blunkett forced to resign from Cabinet

2 November 2005
London: demonstration demands end to shoot-to-kill policy

29 October 2005
Britain: attorney general prevents prosecution of police who killed Harry Stanley

27 October 2005
US Senate resumes attack on antiwar MP George Galloway

26 October 2005
The Birmingham riots: Against racial politics-for class unity
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)

18 October 2005
Britain: public meetings discuss Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war and the struggle for socialism

15 October 2005
Oppose Blair's police-state measures Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)

What is in Blair's anti-terror bill?

13 October 2005
Britain: Letters reveal police cover-up over Menezes shooting

12 October 2005
Britain: De Menezes family demands justice in police murder

8 October 2005
British press attempts to resuscitate the Conservative Party

5 October 2005
SEP public meetings in Britain
Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war and the struggle for socialism

1 October 2005
Brighton conference: The political shipwreck of New Labour

29 September 2005
Britain: de Menezes' parents demand police stand trial for murder

26 September 2005
Tens of thousands march in London against Iraq occupation

23 September 2005
Blair and Murdoch defend Bush over Hurricane Katrina

20 September 2005
TUC annual conference
The decline and decay of Britain's trade unions

17 September 2005
British media backs Merkel in German elections, but fears instability

15 September 2005
Britain: police chief insists "shoot-to-kill" policy remains in force

14 September 2005
The lessons of the July 7 London bombings and the state murder of Jean Charles de Menezes

British MP Michael Meacher suggests Security Services are shielding July 7 bomb plotters

12 September 2005
British SWP covers for union betrayal of Gate Gourmet workers

10 September 2005
Tory leadership challenger Ken Clarke lambasts Blair on Iraq and democratic rights

9 September 2005
British media fears political consequences of Hurricane Katrina

8 September 2005
Democracy and the "rule of law:" An exchange on the British police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes

6 September 2005
Prison population in Britain reaches record levels

5 September 2005
Britain: "Fear on the Streets" art installation removed from Selfridges's window

30 August 2005
Britain: union agrees to hundreds of redundancies to sell out Gate Gourmet strike

27 August 2005
Britain: anti-terror measures threaten basic rights

25 August 2005
More lies from the British police on the de Menezes murder

22 August 2005
New revelations expose police, media cover-up
The Guardian and the de Menezes killing

19 August 2005
Airport catering workers still sacked at Heathrow airport

18 August 2005
Britain: government lies exposed over de Menezes murder

15 August 2005
British government attacks civil liberties with pending deportations

11 August 2005
British Muslims face increased racist attacks and state harassment

10 August 2005
Blair lays down framework for police state in Britain

Britain: leaked documents on illegal pre-war bombing campaign against Iraq

8 August 2005
Forces trained in Britain's dirty war in Northern Ireland involved in de Menezes killing

6 August 2005
Britain: outstanding questions on July 7 bombings warrant independent inquiry

4 August 2005
London bombings trigger massive assault on democratic rights

2 August 2005
London Olympics 2012: corporate greed and privatisation

30 July 2005
Britain: Police shoot-to-kill policy part of onslaught against democratic rights

29 July 2005
Blair defends Iraq war, vows new attacks on civil liberties and social conditions

27 July 2005
Britain: media defend state killing, police chief warns more to come

Brazil: angry protests hit state murder in London

25 July 2005
Police gun down worker in London subway: another tragic consequence of Blair's war policy

Former Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath dies

18 July 2005
Attack on civil liberties intensifies after London bombing

15 July 2005
The London bombings: Why did it happen here?

14 July 2005
Racist reprisals feared for London terror bombing

Letters on the London bombings

13 July 2005
London bombings: Why does Blair oppose an inquiry into intelligence failures?

11 July 2005
Unanswered questions in London bombings

Live 8: Who organised the PR campaign for Blair and Bush?

9 July 2005
At least 50 dead in London bombings

8 July 2005
London terror bombings: a political crime

4 July 2005
Live 8 Edinburgh: marching for the establishment

1 July 2005
"Live 8" --a political fraud on behalf of imperialism

25 June 2005
Blair's Britain and what it means for Europe

22 June 2005
Blair steps up campaign against "old Europe"

10 June 2005
Britain: the death of James Callaghan
"A good Labour man" and the end of reformism

4 June 2005
British lecturers' union overturns boycott of Israeli academics

1 June 2005
An exchange of letters on the British elections and Labour lefts

21 May 2005
Britain: judge overturns verdict of unlawful killing in Harry Stanley case

20 May 2005
Queen's Speech in Britain
Blair's third-term agenda: privatisations, attacks on civil liberties

19 May 2005
British MP Galloway blasts US Senate on Iraqi oil probe

14 May 2005
Britain: Blair lurches right, dismissing calls for resignation

12 May 2005
Britain: military families take legal action against Blair government

6 May 2005
Britain: Labour wins general election but suffers major losses

5 May 2005
Britain: The May 5 general election and the failure of Labourism

4 May 2005
New Iraq war revelations hit Blair on eve of election

Britain: the myth of Labour's economic success

30 April 2005
Britain: Blair forced to publish legal advice on Iraq war

29 April 2005
Britain: Islamic fundamentalist group threatens candidates and voters
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)

28 April 2005
The closure of MG Rover and the need for an international perspective--Part Three

27 April 2005
MG Rover and the need for an international perspective--Part Two

26 April 2005
The closure of MG Rover and the need for an international perspective--Part One

25 April 2005
An exchange on the nationalism of the Scottish Socialist Party

23 April 2005
Labour policies make London a haven for the super-rich

21 April 2005
Britain: trial finds no evidence of "ricin plot"
Another Iraq war lie exposed

20 April 2005
Respect-Unity coalition in Britain: a marriage of Labourism and Islamism
Part two

18 April 2005
Respect-Unity coalition in Britain: a marriage of Labourism and Islamism
Part one

British royal wedding: from fairy tale to fiasco

12 April 2005
The British working class and the 2005 general election
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)

11 April 2005
Britain: opposition to Iraq war led to Labour vote-rigging in 2004 elections

8 April 2005
Britain: public service unions save Blair the embarrassment of a pre-election strike

7 April 2005
Still no truth after year-long inquiry into British Army trainee deaths

6 April 2005
British general election announced for May 5

5 April 2005
UK government launches new plan for Africa

2 April 2005
Britain: row over spending cuts hits Conservative election bid

26 March 2005
Britain: government refuses to release information on Israeli killing of UN worker

Britain: Conservative Party promotes racist campaign against gypsies

22 March 2005
Britain: government issues first "control orders" imposing house arrest

1 March 2005
Britain: Blair was advised that Iraq invasion could be illegal

9 February 2005
Britain: Matthew Parris and the tsunami disaster
"Revelling" as the death toll mounts

8 February 2005
UK government pushes ahead with privatisation of healthcare

5 February 2005
More British troops face court martial: seven accused of Iraqi civilian murder

2 February 2005
Britain: Labour and Tories target immigrants in run-up to election

29 January 2005
Court martial of British soldiers hears allegations of abuse orders

28 January 2005
Britain: government proposes house arrest of terror suspects

24 January 2005
British court martial bares war crimes against Iraqi civilians

UK Labour government wracked by Blair-Brown feud

22 January 2005
Britain: rise in "superbug" cases linked to decrease in hospital cleaning staff

21 January 2005
Four Britons released from Guantanamo Lawyer charges "savage torture" at hands of US

5 January 2005
Tsunami disaster strips away Blair's humanitarian pretence

31 December 2004
Britain: Royal Mail to sell off half its business

23 December 2004
BBC announces widespread job losses and cuts

22 December 2004
Britain: Law Lords terror ruling provokes constitutional crisis

20 December 2004
Britain: government treatment of Roma was racist, Law Lords rule

18 December 2004
Britain: High Court clears way for investigation into troop killing of Iraqi citizen

17 December 2004
Britain's Home Secretary David Blunkett resigns

16 December 2004
Martin Jacques: embittered British Stalinist pronounces on death of the "left"--Part Two

Britain: paramedics question suicide verdict on whistleblower Kelly

15 December 2004
Martin Jacques: embittered British Stalinist pronounces on death of the "left"--Part One

13 December 2004
Lord Butler belatedly comes out against Blair

11 December 2004
Britain: cover-up of chemical warfare tests on servicemen exposed

3 December 2004
Britain: government rejects public inquiry into brutality at Deepcut barracks

2 December 2004
Britain's Home Secretary Blunkett under attack

29 November 2004
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw rants against Trotskyism

25 November 2004
How Britain's trade unions support occupation of Iraq

20 November 2004
Blair's foreign policy: from a "bridge" to a bridgehead

16 November 2004
Court martial confirms Britain given advance warning of Iraq invasion

15 November 2004
Bush and Blair pledge to continue Middle East aggression

13 November 2004
Britain: growing opposition to occupation of Iraq as more Black Watch troops die

6 November 2004
Despair and resignation characterise British elite's response to Bush victory

4 November 2004
Former cabinet member Clare Short accuses Blair of lying over Iraq

26 October 2004
London: lessons of the European Social Forum

19 October 2004
SEP presidential candidate addresses London meeting

14 October 2004
Britain: more lies over Iraq war

6 October 2004
Britain: Guantanamo detainee alleges "vindictive torture" and murder

2 October 2004
Britain: Labour Party conference endorses occupation of Iraq

30 September 2004
Britain: Blair's defence of his record on Iraq given standing ovation

24 September 2004
Britain: Iraq debacle deepens crisis of Blair government

23 September 2004
Britain: dramatic increase in self-harm by children

22 September 2004
Britain: pro-hunt protest utilised to force through attacks on democratic rights

20 September 2004
Britain: behind the factional warfare in Labour's cabinet

3 September 2004
Mother of British soldier killed in Iraq demands troop withdrawal

27 August 2004
Mark Thatcher arrested over alleged African coup plot

23 August 2004
Britain: soldier opposed to Iraq war commits suicide

21 August 2004
Scotland: explosion the result of industrial deregulation

14 August 2004
UK government spending review pledges job cuts and defence spending hike

9 August 2004
"We want a full public inquiry into all non-combat deaths"
Lynn Farr, mother of dead British soldier, speaks to the World Socialist Web Site

30 July 2004
Britain: Blair's claims on Iraqi mass graves refuted

27 July 2004
Britain: The take-over battle for Marks & Spencer

24 July 2004
Bus drivers in South Yorkshire, England, strike over pay

23 July 2004
Britain: unions found anti-Blair ginger group

17 July 2004
Britain: Blair knew claims on Iraqi WMDs were dubious

16 July 2004
BBC vindicated on charge that government "sexed-up" Iraq dossier

15 July 2004
Butler Inquiry exonerates Blair government on Iraq war lies

14 July 2004
Former BBC head attacks Blair government over Iraq war

Aid organisations berate British government's record

10 July 2004
Britain: former government legal advisor says Iraq war was illegal act of "aggression"

8 July 2004
London's Mayor Livingstone gives aides massive salary rise

7 July 2004
Britain's Socialist Workers Party and the defence of national reformism--Part 3
A review of Alex Callinicos's An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto


6 July 2004
Britain's Socialist Workers Party and the defence of national reformism--Part 2
A review of Alex Callinicos's An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto

5 July 2004
Britain's Socialist Workers Party and the defence of national reformism-Part 1
A review of Alex Callinicos's An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto

1 July 2004
Britain: mother of soldier killed in Iraq slams government

26 June 2004
Scores of deaths in British barracks unaccounted for

23 June 2004
What is the United Kingdom Independence Party?

18 June 2004
London meeting: European elections "a sea change in political life"

17 June 2004
Four British soldiers face court martial over Iraq abuses

14 June 2004
Britain: Labour suffers a rout in local elections

2 June 2004
Leaked government memo reveals US-British tensions over Iraq

24 May 2004
Britain: Father of Nick Berg supports march against Iraq occupation

22 May 2004
Socialist Equality Party public meetings in Britain
No to the European Union--Yes to the United Socialist States of Europe

20 May 2004
Britain: Sacking of Mirror editor over Iraq abuse photos--a major attack on press freedom

15 May 2004
Blair pledges his continued loyalty to Bush on Iraq

14 May 2004
No to the European Union--Yes to the United Socialist States of Europe
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)

12 May 2004
Britain: Blair and Hoon plead ignorance of human rights abuses in Iraq

Police strategy of "disruption": New attack on civil liberties in Britain

30 April 2004
Britain: Blair pledges anti-immigrant clampdown

29 April 2004
Britain: Government threatens to change law to enable continued detention without trial

28 April 2004
Britain: Former diplomats blast Blair's support for US Middle East policy

24 April 2004
Britain: Blunkett to legislate for "thought crimes" and guilt by association

22 April 2004
Blair and Bush plan further crimes in the Middle East
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)

Britain: Documentary shows police laughing as man dies in station

19 April 2004
Britain: Antiwar protesters call for withdraw of troops from Iraq

16 April 2004
Britain: Ruling elite discuss Iraq strategy

14 April 2004
Reject Blair's colonial adventure--Withdraw British troops from Iraq now!

7 April 2004
Nationality, ethnicity and culture: the Guardian hosts the racist ideas of David Goodhart
Part two

6 April 2004
Nationality, ethnicity and culture: Guardian hosts the racist ideas of David Goodhart
Part one

5 April 2004
Britain: Corporate CEO pay rises again

3 April 2004
Britain: SWP/RESPECT "lefts" oppose union disaffiliation from Labour Party

24 March 2004
Britain: The beating of Delbo King highlights police racism and brutality

22 March 2004
Britain: 25,000-plus protesters march to rally in Trafalgar Square

19 March 2004
Britain: Freed Guantanamo Bay detainees detail beatings and abuse

18 March 2004
Britain: Coroner rejects inquest into death of Dr. David Kelly

12 March 2004
Blair: Scrap international law vs. aggressive war

10 March 2004
Iraqis tortured and killed by British troops

8 March 2004
Britain: The Royal Mail's 300-year monopoly ends

6 March 2004
Britain: 20 years since the year-long miners strike
Part Two

5 March 2004
Britain: 20 years since the year-long miners' strike
Part One

2 March 2004
Britain: Protests mount over tax rises

28 February 2004
Britain: Short's allegations of spying against UN confirm criminal character of Iraq war

Britain's Labour Party expels rail union

27 February 2004
British government abandons trial of whistleblower who said Iraq war was illegal

23 February 2004
Britain: Leaked report reveals plans to slash 80,000 civil service jobs

19 February 2004
Britain: The Respect-Unity coalition and the politics of opportunism
Part Two

18 February 2004
Britain: The Respect-Unity coalition and the politics of opportunism
Part One

13 February 2004
Britain aided US in spying on UN delegates

11 February 2004
Britain: 19 Chinese workers drown working on slave labour gang

10 February 2004
Britain: home secretary proposes "pre-emptive" justice

7 February 2004
Britain: Blair caught out once again on WMD 45-minute claim

5 February 2004
Hutton Inquiry: A black day for democracy in Britain

31 January 2004
BBC's Gilligan resigns after condemning the Hutton Inquiry and Blair government