Britain has a long tradition of charitable voluntary bodies. Having visited many of their local projects, I admire their dedicated staff. But the structures and policies at the top mean there are elements which reinforce capitalism, the class system and inequality.
We are asking every worker in Britain to support our strike on Friday of this week to stop Royal Mail’s devastating business plan. This plan will mean cuts in your postal service, fewer collections and deliveries, even more post office closures and cuts to workers’ pay and conditions.
Mike Gonzalez is currently visiting Caracas. He is a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain and author of many books, including Che Guevara And The Cuban Revolution and A Rebel’s Guide To Marx. He is
Thousands of anti-war campaigners, trade union activists, students and others will be heading to central London next month for what will be this year’s largest meeting of the radical left in Britain.
Postal workers from across Britain have contacted Socialist Worker about the situation in their offices, and their views on the fight to come. Here is a selection of those contributions. To send your views, email [email protected]
The European Court of Human Rights has requested that a hold be placed on the imminent extradition of British citizen Babar Ahmad to allow them to give the case "proper consideration".
The House of Lords ruled last week that European human rights law did apply to British troops serving in Iraq in the case of Baha Musa who died in their custody four years ago.
The British-controlled Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia played a critical role in the development of the CIA’s secret "war on terror" prisons, a new report shows.
Defence companies such as BAE Systems are strategically important to the British state, but the exact nature of the relationship has changed over the last two decades as the domestic arms industry has been opened up to international competition.
The lack of affordable housing has become a political crisis for the main parties. For over a quarter of a century, the policies of British government have been geared towards a single goal – encouraging private home ownership.
Britain’s biggest construction union has warned that the building of the Olympic Park and venues for the 2012 games will be hit with similar delays, strikes and spiralling costs to those that plagued Wembley Stadium.
