The fascist British National Party (BNP) made an electoral breakthrough on 1 May when it won a seat on the London assembly and made a net gain of ten more council seats across England.
Simmering anger at years of New Labour policies that promote war, privatisation and inequality boiled over last week as Gordon Brown presided over his party’s worst local election results in decades.
The battle lines across British society could not have been drawn more starkly. At Grangemouth in Scotland refinery workers this week stood up for all of us when they confronted a billionaire oil baron out to rob their pensions.