Workers at Visteon's Enfield plant who went into occupation on Wednesday are furious at the way they have been treated by their management.
Elma Walker and her husband Paul have both worked at the Visteon car components plant for over 20 years.
The occupations and protests against job cuts at Visteon spread this morning from Belfast to sites in Britain.
Anti-war activists from around the world will converge on the city of Strasbourg in France this week to protest at the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), the military alliance headed by the US. Nato was formed 60 years ago on 4 April 1949.
Nothing shows the brutal power of Israeli weaponry better than the piles of rubble that greeted us as we crossed into Gaza.
The world is overflowing with products that people aren't buying. The World Trade Organisation predicts that global trade will drop by 10 percent this year. Exports from Japan, the world's second largest economy, have nearly halved from a year ago.
You have decided that you want a revolution to overthrow capitalism. You turn up at a protest or left wing rally and are confronted with a barrage of different socialist publications and organisations you can join.
Some 200 workers have occupied the Visteon car parts plant in Belfast, Northern Ireland, against job cuts.
The financial meltdown that is spreading across the globe may have drawn attention away from the world food crisis, but it continues to fester and even grow.
It seems that life just gets tougher for young people. Tested at school from an early age, demonised and criminalised by a hostile media, police and politicians and daunted by huge debts should they go to university, young people are now also being hit hard by the recession.
The governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, last week admitted that the regulatory mechanisms of the world’s financial systems "all failed to some degree to prevent the accumulation of risks that finally produced the crisis".
