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The Tories and the tabloid press have waded into the debate on knife crime with demands for mandatory and longer prison sentences for those found carrying knives.

The fascist British National Party (BNP) plans to ratchet up its hate campaign against Muslims by calling a "national rally" in Stoke-on-Trent on Saturday 9 August.

Civil service workers in the Prospect and PCS unions at the British Museum in London came out on strike on Friday afternoon last week over a below-inflation pay offer.

I was fifteen in November 1965, when the racist regime of Ian Smith illegally declared Zimbabwe – or the settler colony of Southern Rhodesia, as it then was – independent of Britain. My family lived in the capital city, Salisbury, today called Harare.

As shareholders at supermarket giant Tesco grappled last week with the question of whether to award more rights to the chickens sold at their British stores, trade unionists and campaigners were raising the plight of another species, the workers in Tesco’s Indian supply chain.

The Anti Academies Alliance (AAA) has produced a statement in response to schools secretary Ed Balls’ alarming announcement that 638 secondary schools across Britain should "improve or close".

The current dispute by cleaners on London Underground shows the reality of a migrant workforce that keeps Britain running and that is fighting for decent pay and working conditions.

Imagine this – you are at home watching TV and a British National Party (BNP) leaflet comes through your door urging you to come to a meeting they have organised on your estate.

Anti-fascist activists have spoken out against the "bully boy tactics" used by a senior British National Party (BNP) councillor against the principal of Barking College in east London.

Shocking news was released last week that Assistant Commissioner Tariq Ghaffur, Britain’s most senior ranking black police officer, was preparing papers alleging race discrimination against the Metropolitan Police and its commissioner Sir Ian Blair.

The rising cost of living is leaving millions of workers in Britain in poverty. Spiralling food prices have pushed inflation to a 16-year high.

Who was to blame for Bush protest violence? I was confused about the reasons why the police reacted so violently to our recent demonstration against George Bush’s visit to Britain two weekends ago – everyone knows that our anti-war protests have always been peaceful.