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Building solidarity for the continuing struggle of the sacked Visteon workers is a priority for every trade unionist in Britain.

The police in Britain – and London’s Metropolitan Police in particular – are on the defensive over their handling of the G20 protests in London earlier this month.

There is a terrible danger that the fascist British National Party (BNP) could make a major breakthough on 4 June by winning seats in the European parliament elections.

The defiant stand taken by sacked Ford Visteon car component workers at plants in Belfast, Basildon and Enfield marks a turning point in class struggle in Britain.

Transport minister Lord Adonis was travelling round Britain by train this week to get "first hand experience" of the rail service.

It is a terrible indictment of the British police that the death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests two weeks ago was entirely predictable.

Anti-fascists held a counter-protest at a British National Party (BNP) demonstration in Croydon, south London, last Saturday.

Thousands of Tamils in Britain joined a vigil in Parliament Square on Tuesday to protest against the Sri Lankan government’s military offensive.

Further evidence is emerging of systematic British involvement in "extraordinary rendition".

The magnificent action by Visteon workers occupying their factories is the sharp end of struggle in Britain – and has radically changed the mood among many of those fighting the impacts of the recession.

The occupations and protests against job cuts at Visteon spread this morning from Belfast to sites in Britain.

Around a sixth of Britain's population – some 11 million people – are pensioners. Yet the basic state pension is just 15 percent of the average wage, down from 25 percent when pensions were first paid in 1909.