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Riot police showed the brutal face of the British state on the streets of London last week. But protests that threaten governments—let alone the capitalist system—are rare. Much of the time it can seem that people are relatively content with the way things are.

The vote on tuition fees in parliament last week showed British "democracy" is a hollow sham.

The Nazi British National Party (BNP) planned a political turn at its annual conference on the weekend of 10 December in Leicester.

The right wing papers have used the latest British Social Attitudes survey to suggest that Britain has become more Thatcherite.

Protesters will take to the streets across Britain this Saturday 18 December to step up the pressure on companies that have used legal scams to avoid paying billions of pounds in tax.

Britain’s rulers like to present democracy, the welfare state and legal equality as gifts that they have given to ordinary people.

The result of the strike ballot to defend hundreds of jobs at the Passport Office in Newport and interview offices around Britain was due on Wednesday of this week.

Anti-cuts campaigners descended on high street shops across Britain last Saturday, calling on fat cat bosses to pay their taxes.

We have seen another huge outpouring of student anger onto the streets of Britain this week.

Lecturers across Britain were backing mass protests this Thursday—and some called for walkouts.

Many new occupations have bloomed across Britain this week.

Managements in universities across Britain have tried to intimidate students with the threat of injunctions—with some going as far as getting court orders to evict students.