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The biggest and longest mass strike in British history ended 25 years ago. Around 165,000 miners struck for a year from March 1984. They were fighting Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s attempts to close pits, sack tens of thousands of workers and smash one of the most militant sections of the working class.

Yet another judge criticised British spies for their complicity in torture last week. And yet again the government responded with lies.

Over 1,000 British Airways workers made their way to Kempton Park racecourse for a mass meeting on Thursday of last week.

The Greek spirit of resistance will come to Britain next week when hundreds of thousands of civil service workers strike for two days.

"Britain is full, declares Nick Griffin at every opportunity, and he is right."

The campaign against the fascist British National Party’s (BNP) election candidates is gathering momentum across Britain.

Socialist candidates are providing an electoral challenge to the mainstream parties across Britain. The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is standing in around 50 constituencies.

A meeting called by the British Medical Association tonight (Thursday) sent out an urgent call for resistance to cuts that could devastate the NHS.

More than 100 media workers packed into a meeting in London on Tuesday to launch the campaign Expose the BNP (British National Party).

The prime minster does not hit people, he says. It says something about the state of British politics that Brown not hitting people has dominated the news for days.

Two and half million people are unemployed in Britain today. Every day the press report more job losses.

Over 80 percent of British Airways (BA) cabin crew have voted for strikes to defend jobs.