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Workers at four British Sugar plants in the east of England are balloting for strikes over pay.

This evening of film, drama, music and poetry raises awareness of some of the issues that face Roma people today in Britain and around the world.

When radical left wing Labour Party leader Harry Perkins becomes prime minister, it looks as though Britain really is on the path to socialism through parliament.

The Tories are taking an axe to working class Britain. Every day sees jobs decimated, services slashed and thousands of lives wrecked.

Britain’s leading arms fair was used to promote illegal torture equipment and cluster bombs.

Britain’s biggest public sector union, Unison, will ballot all of its 1.1 million public sector workers for strikes.

The instructions were simple. "Get up you fucking bastard", "Get up you fucking ape" screamed the soldiers, followed by kicks and punches. Sometimes the blows came from multiple fists and boots.

Another inquiry is to begin next month after up to 20 Iraqis were tortured and murdered in British custody in 2004.

Delegates at the TUC conference discussed the riots that swept Britain last month.

Ken Loach has long been Britain’s leading socialist filmmaker. His work stretches from early films such as Cathy Come Home in the mid-1960s, to Route Irish, which came out earlier this year.

Workers in three councils across Britain have already begun the battle against the Tories’ coalition of cutters.