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The uprising in Libya has spread and deepened across the country. As Socialist Worker goes to press Muammar Gaddafi is only just holding onto the capital Tripoli, and threatens a bloody counter- attack against rebels.

Protesters transformed high street bank branches across Britain into creches, libraries, hospitals, homeless shelters and drama clubs last Saturday.

Cabin crew at British Airways (BA) have begun voting in a new strike ballot in their lengthy dispute with BA bosses. The ballot will end on 28 March.

Anti-cuts protesters have been occupying town halls up and down Britain as councillors vote through slasher budgets.

Former British soldier Danny Fitzsimons has been sentenced to 20 years in an Iraqi prison after being found guilty of killing two men and attempting to kill a third.

Nobody can predict how big the TUC’s demonstration on 26 March is going to be. But it is certainly going to be one of the biggest protests Britain has ever seen.

Understaffing is cause of NHS horror stories I write in response to the recent report by the health service ombudsman that blames NHS workers for the problems facing public healthcare in Britain.

A lively protest greeted GPs and hospital doctors as they arrived at the London regional meeting of the British Medical Association (BMA) on Thursday of last week.

Shipbuilding is all but extinct in Britain. But it was the bedrock of imperial power and central to defining the working class.

The Unite union has called a new strike ballot at British Airways.

Some 50 English Defence League members joined a British National Party (BNP) stall in Barnsley last Saturday.

Specialist teachers in Oldham struck on Tuesday of last week against plans to axe their jobs. The teachers work with children who move to Britain with little or no English.