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Strikes by postal workers in many parts of Britain are hitting Royal Mail hard, with millions of letters and packets clogging up mail centres and sorting offices.

Gordon Brown’s support for the poisonous "British jobs for British workers" slogan went up a little further this week when the government announced new employment rules.

Firefighters across Britain are facing attacks that pose a threat to our fire service­­—and they are fighting back.

Joe Glenton, a British soldier who has refused to fight in Afghanistan, last week won a major victory in his battle with the British army when it dropped key charges against him.

Transport to Brighton is being organised from across Britain.

Prime minister Neville Chamberlain broadcast that Britain was in a state of war with Germany at 11.12am on 3 September 1939. The Second World War had begun two days earlier when the German dictator, Adolf Hitler, invaded Poland.

Socialist Worker is at the heart of the resistance in Britain. We have thrown our weight behind the workers who occupied their factories in the fight to save jobs at Visteon, Vestas and Prisme, reporting and supporting their struggles.

A Muslim man from Loughton in Essex who was kidnapped at knifepoint last week says he believes the British National Party (BNP) is to blame for inspiring the hate campaign against him.

The release of Abdelbaset Ali al‑Megrahi, the man wrongly convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, has created a storm of controversy over why he was let out and who ordered his release.

Mass youth unemployment has returned to Britain in a way not seen since the worst days of Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government of the 1980s.

This exhibition is a small but important monument to one of the most significant struggles in Britain in the 20th century. It charts the history of the women’s suffrage movement from the setting up of the first groups in 1866 to their eventual victory in 1928.

The Vestas factory on the Isle of Wight was Britain’s only significant producer of wind turbines – and one of the biggest employers on the island. But despite government promises of "green jobs", bosses there were able to suddenly close the factory, sacking 600 people.