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The rush to privatise Britain’s post offices is accelerating even faster - and could lead to a major strike.

In his final conference speech as Labour Party leader, Tony Blair passed a poisoned chalice to Gordon Brown - pledging that Britain will remain "America’s strongest ally".

The British, US and other Nato troops in Afghanistan are losing. How has this happened?

Abolitionists There is a myth that the abolition of the British slave trade came about because of pressure from enlightened liberal individuals such as William Wilberforce.

An Inconvenient Truth, the new documentary based on the multi-media lecture about global warming given by former US vice president Al Gore, had its mainstream release in Britain last week. The previous day Nasa revealed that the Antarctic ice is melting 14 times faster than expected.

Families of British soldiers have told Socialist Worker they will set up a peace camp outside this week’s Labour Party conference in Manchester, despite attempts to ban them by the city’s council.

Levels of obesity in Britain have reached record levels and are rising. The health impact of obesity is such that for the first time in recent history children could face a lower life expectancy than their parents.

Over 300 Zimbabweans from across Britain led a vibrant and lively demonstration in Leeds last Saturday against the government’s resumption of deportations of refused asylum seekers back to Zimbabwe, writes Stuart Hodkinson

Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith told a public meeting on Thursday that the crimes of the British and American governments may cause a "return to barbarism in the modern age" unless they change their foreign policy.  Speaking to a meeting of students in the build up to the demonstration at Labour Party conference, he said that "when you look into the history, the UK and US government have been engaged in criminal activity for many years."

A selection of views of more than 50,000 marching through Manchester, the venue of the Labour Party conference to say it's time for British troops to go from Iraq and Afghanistan and time for Tony Blair to go from Downing Street

Soumaya Ghannoushi of the British Muslim Initiative speaks to the crowd at the rally after more than 50,000 people marched on the Stop the War Coalition 'Time to Go' demonstration against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for Tony Blair to go. The demonstration was in Manchester outside the venue of the Labour Party conference on Saturday 23 September 2006.

Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, speaks to the crowd at the rally after more than 50,000 people marched on the Stop the War Coalition 'Time to Go' demonstration against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for Tony Blair to go. The demonstration was in Manchester outside the venue of the Labour Party conference on Saturday 23 September 2006.