
UK: 2 million strike to save their pensions
Tory attempts to belittle public-sector industrial action rang pathetically hollow.
In Britain too, public workers under fire
Chancellor George Osborne careened ahead with disastrous economic policies as he launched a vicious new attack on public-sector workers.

British trade unionists come out for Cuba and the Cuban Five
From the vantage point of Cuban solidarity activists in the U.S., U.K. trade unionists deserve special credit because they've taken the lead in speaking out for the Cuba Five in Britain.
In UK riots, Conservative Party rewriting doesn't wash
Iain Duncan Smith told BBC's Panorama that our recent riots were nothing to do with unemployment.

British right spreads anti-youth message
British responses to the rioting spreading throughout England have had a sharp anti-youth tone.

British riots spurred by "greed is good" society
These attitudes were reproduced so grotesquely by the needy inadequates on TV shows such as The Apprentice.

British education cuts: a member of Parliament speaks out
The yawning gap between the richest and the rest has to be addressed and wealth must be redistributed.
World Notes: Japan, Israel, Cuba and more
Western Sahara, Mexico, United Kingdom, Afghanistan, Israel and Cuba: all the latest in international news.

Brits battle health service privatization
LONDON - The Royal College of General Practitioners and the Unite union joined other campaigners in speaking out against the conservative government's "Liberating the NHS" plan.

Bloody Sunday massacre: Unjustified and unjustifiable
British Prime Minister David Cameron has apologized unreservedly to the families of those killed on Bloody Sunday 38 years ago, saying the action of troops was "unjustified and unjustifiable."

