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Millions of children in Britain are being "failed by the system" and abandoned to a life of poverty, according to a new report released this week.

There has been a steady stream of warnings that Britain faces an energy crisis and blackouts this winter. This has boosted the idea that we need to build more nuclear power stations.

There is a renewed attack on abortion rights in Britain. Anti-abortionists are still trying to hijack the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill by tabling amendments attacking a woman’s right to choose.

Brown’s Lehman love-in "I would like to pay tribute to the contribution you and your company make to the prosperity of Britain." These were the words of Gordon Brown to the now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers at the opening of its building in London’s Canary Wharf in 2004.

Anti-racist activists and trade unionists joined local residents to demonstrate in Stoke-on-Trent last Saturday against a fascist rally in the city called by the British National Party (BNP).

Hundreds of pensioners and local people paraded around East Street Market in south London last Sunday to celebrate 100 years of the state pension in Britain.

There is a problem facing the left. Across Britain there are millions of people who have marched against war, global poverty and privatisation. These people reject the central tenets of New Labour’s pro-market, pro-US agenda and would never vote for David Cameron.

The world financial system went into meltdown last week as the collapse of the housing bubble in the US and Britain brought down banks on both sides of the Atlantic.

Harriet Harman’s fairly unremarkable comments on class to the TUC last week – essentially saying that the class system exists – have elicited a flurry of protest from the old right.

The Nazi British National Party (BNP) has called a national demonstration in Stoke-on-Trent for this Saturday. Party leader Nick Griffin is the keynote speaker.

The fascist British National Party (BNP) is on the march again – but we can build a mass movement to stop them in their tracks. That was the message last weekend coming from Rotherham and Stoke-on-Trent, two key targets for the BNP Nazis.

The heavy rains that have hit Britain over recent weeks have led to an utterly predictable disaster – flooding.