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British Airway’s cabin crew belonging to the Unite union are set to strike for 12 days from 22 December. This follows a 92 percent vote for strike action among the 14,000 cabin crew in defence of pay, jobs and working conditions. Over 80 percent of those entitled to vote did so, a turn out far greater than at the last general election.

Joe Glenton, the serving British soldier who refused to fight in Afghanistan, has been released from military prison in Colchester.

The wave of strikes in Britain between 1910 and 1914 saw millions of workers fight over wages and conditions with the most militant methods. The period became known as the Great Unrest.

Seeing the recent wave of student occupations and demonstrations across Europe and the world, some people argue that nothing like it will ever happen in Britain.

The government has launched a massive attack on workers that every boss in Britain will be watching.

Will David Cameron be the last prime minister of the United Kingdom? With the prospect of a Tory government looming in 2010, the argument for independence is once again front page news in Scotland.

British Airways cabin crew in the Unite union are balloting for strike action over cuts that were imposed on 16 November.

A blue sea of protesters flowed through central London last Saturday as Britain’s biggest ever climate protest hit the city.

"One agent did come up with something – the ‘45 minutes’, allegedly discussed in a high level Iraqi political meeting."Former British intelligence officer and now Tory MP Adam Holloway on Tony Blair’s "dodgy dossier" and the claim that Iraq could deploy Weapons of Mass Destruction quickly

The 100th British soldier this year died in Afghanistan on Monday this week.

The real cost of bailing out Britain’s banks was revealed this week – a whopping £850 billion.

A blue sea of protesters flowed through central London today calling on Gordon Brown to take serious action to cut carbon emissions and stop climate change.