Socialist candidates are providing an electoral challenge to the mainstream parties across Britain. The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is standing in around 50 constituencies.
Geert Wilders is coming to London on Friday to speak in parliament and show his racist film Fitna. He has been invited by UKIP leader, and lifelong member of the House of Lords, Malcolm Everard MacLaren Pearson.
Students at Westminster University in central London have occupied part of a university building in protest at proposed cuts.
Around 5,000 protesters took to the streets of Islington, north London, this afternoon to defend key services under threat at Whittington hospital.
A meeting called by the British Medical Association tonight (Thursday) sent out an urgent call for resistance to cuts that could devastate the NHS.
Journalists at the Financial Times (FT) were celebrating victory this week after management backed off from plans to sack Chinese journalists working on the FTChinese website.
The battle is on to stop an assault on civil service workers.
Around 300 students and workers demonstrated at Leeds university today. They marched around the campus in defence of jobs and education.
Darren Lee Tinklin from Blackwood in Wales, was jailed for three years this week for making a pipe bomb and improvised firearm.
More than 100 media workers packed into a meeting in London on Tuesday to launch the campaign Expose the BNP (British National Party).
The University of Leeds UCU lecturers’ union has suspended strike action planned for Thursday.
