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It’s 1986, somewhere in Britain. Shaun is finishing his final exam at school—a History CSE, for nostalgics.

‘The experience never goes away," says Paddy Hill. He still burns with anger at the British state 35 years after he was imprisoned for a bombing he did not commit.

British Airways (BA) cabin crew will vote in a fresh ballot for industrial action—but as yet there is no timetable for the ballot.

The next few weeks are a great chance to turn Britain’s biggest union into a fighting and democratic organisation that can better resist the Tories’ attacks.

Firefighters from across Britain will march in London on Thursday of next week to support their brothers and sisters in the capital.

The nomination period for the election for the general secretary of Unite, Britain’s biggest union, ended this week.

Disgraced Tory party donor Asil Nadir is back in Britain. He was the party’s largest individual donor during the 1980s.

The media is saturated with celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the "Spitfire summer" of 1940.

In the last week we have seen those with power scapegoating those without it—over the proposed mosque in New York, the Notting Hill Carnival, the Roma expulsion in France and attacks on the welfare state in Britain.

Squatters show poverty The tabloid press launched into a spiteful attack on poor migrant workers in Britain last week. The Daily Express newspaper ran a front page claiming "Britain’s Migrant Squatter Shambles—city under siege by jobless gangs".

Jimmy Reid died in hospital last weekend after suffering a brain haemorrhage. He was the best known member the British Communist Party ever had.

The threat of a strike by thousands of workers at six airports terrified the British Airports Authority (BAA) bosses this week.