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A major theme of NUT conference was fighting for a different vision of education. Time after time delegates referred to the Unicef report that placed children in Britain 21 out of 21 in a league table of the well-being and happiness of children in the richest countries.

Around 250 people crammed into a fantastic fringe meeting on "Britishness, racism and war". The meeting was chaired by Baljeet Ghale, former President of the NUT, and addressed by Lindsey German from the Stop the War Coalition, Rose Gentle from Military Families Against the War and Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee.

Oliver Birch’s play tells the story of Lord Frederick Smith, a 19th century explorer ashamed of the barbarity of the British Empire.

Women in Britain have made great gains since the days of the Women’s Liberation Movement. We are now a permanent part of the workforce and have a degree of economic independence previously denied to us.

Every politician in Britain proudly proclaims himself or herself a democrat.

They promised a new era "free from dictatorship". Instead the invasion of Iraq has delivered untold misery, violence and murder. Five years ago, as the US and British armies marched triumphantly into Iraq, George Bush and Tony Blair declared a victory "for democracy in the Middle East".

Home secretary Jacqui Smith has announced that ID cards are to become compulsory for "foreign nationals" – people in Britain from outside the European Union.

Neoliberalism and the embracing of the free market were not introduced in the US and Britain by accident or as a result only of the much vaunted hidden hand of the market. They had to be argued for, written about, and put into place by concrete actions.

New Labour has unveiled plans to attack some of the most vulnerable people in Britain.

Omar Deghayes, the British former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was released at the end of last year, will be speaking at the Stop the War demonstration in London this Saturday.

A host of bands, MCs and musicians are set to deliver a blow against the fascist British National Party (BNP) next month at the Love Music Hate Racism free carnival in Victoria Park, east London, on Saturday 27 April.

People in Britain are forced to work an average of 70 days a year just to pay the interest on their debts – and that’s before making any repayments on the amount borrowed.