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A debate is growing within Britain’s working class movement. At stake is whether trade unionists maintain the support and funding which has been central to the Labour Party since its inception.

Delegations of Unison union members from across Britain helped to form a confident and determined 500-strong march through Manchester city centre last Sunday.

Gordon Brown used his speech at the TUC conference in Brighton this week to lecture workers once again on the need for pay restraint to ensure economic stability.

Kala is the latest album from British songwriter and rapper Maya Arulpragasam, better known as MIA. Her first album Arular was named after her father, a fighter for Tamil freedom in Sri Lanka. Now she’s back with a second album – this time named after her mother.

Anti-nuclear activists from across Britain and around the world met in London last Saturday to discuss the new US moves towards a missile defence system and how this is provoking a new Cold War.

Gordon Brown says he wants a "politics of consensus, not division". He says, "Britain needs a new type of politics which embraces everyone in this nation, not just a select few."

The British army has been resoundingly defeated in Iraq – and the only person who doesn't know it is prime minister Gordon Brown.

Leona Helmsley, the US billionaire tax fraudster died last week. She once said, "Taxes are only for little people." Her legacy lives on in Britain’s largest companies’ attitudes to tax.

The NHS is one of the most valued institutions in British society. But its very basis is under threat from the neoliberal policies that Gordon Brown’s New Labour government, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats, subscribe to.

"Where are the students on the rampage?" Polly Toynbee asked plaintively in the Guardian recently. "Compare this inertia with the fury over Vietnam back in the late 1960s, when Britain had no troops in that war.

55 percent of excluded pupils and 49 percent of young people have been the victim of a crime. Young men aged 16-24 are most at risk of violent crime. In 2005-6 12.6 percent of this group were victims of violent crime.90,000 boys in Britain leave school every year with not a single GCSE.9,400 children were permanently excluded from school in 2004-5. Black pupils are up to three times more likely to be excluded than white pupils.2,878 under 18 year olds in custody in February this year. The number of 15 to 17 year olds locked up has more than doubled in the last ten years. Around 85 percen

One hundred years ago a fiery socialist, independent of the Labour Party, was elected to parliament, creating hysteria in the media. He inspired thousands of working people across Britain, yet today many people would not even know his name.