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A hurricane of solidarity with the Vestas workers hit towns across Britain on their first national day of action on Wednesday of last week.

People in 25 towns and cities across Britain organised solidarity on the first Vestas national day of action on Wednesday of last week.

Growing numbers of families in Britain, the US and, most of all, Afghanistan are shedding tears for their loved ones killed in a hellish war.

Danni Hamilton’s son is in the British army. He has now been given battle orders to go to Afghanistan. She spoke to Socialist Worker about why the troops should be brought home:

Clare Glenton’s husband, Joe, is a British soldier who has refused to return to fight in Afghanistan and is being charged with desertion. Clare spoke to Socialist Worker:

People lined the streets of Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire on Tuesday to show their respects for the British soldiers recently killed in Afghanistan.

‘Some in Britain believe the fight is not worth it.’Defence secretary Bob Ainsworth bemoans "defeatism" on the home front

There is a long-standing current of opinion in Britain that fascism could never take hold here—that it is an "un-British" phenomenon that the establishment would never allow.

Postal workers across Britain have taken strike action over the past week in response to a wave of management attacks on working conditions and on their CWU union.

Birmingham’s modern shopping centre, the Bull Ring, reflects a diverse and multicultural British city. On Saturday 8 August it was full of tourists and locals.

"The modern Conservative Party is now the dominant progressive force in British politics."

Right wing newspapers and politicians constantly attack migrant workers and immigrants as a drain on Britain’s resources. But a new report has exposed the myth of "sponging immigrants" and shows how migration is a benefit to the economy.