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Britain’s Morning Star feels no joy on queen’s anniversary

February 8, 2012 By Morning Star

Defenders of the status quo assert that the monarchy is largely symbolic or even little more than a tourist attraction, but its residual powers are real, extensive and undemocratic.

UK: 2 million strike to save their pensions

December 1, 2011 By Paddy McGuffin

Tory attempts to belittle public-sector industrial action rang pathetically hollow.

In Britain too, public workers under fire

November 30, 2011 By Special to People’s World

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

September 21, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

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

August 19, 2011 By Solomon Hughes

Iain Duncan Smith told BBC's Panorama that our recent riots were nothing to do with unemployment.