Fifty five people were arrested and several injured in violent clashes during a demonstration in Bolton.

The following is a report by a young postal worker that he sent to Billy Hayes of the CWU: I am just writing to inform you about an incident that took place at a UAF meeting at the Railway Club in Bristol last night (17th March). In the very same room that you gave a speech

To be honest, I don't have much sympathy with BA over the planned strike by cabin crew. Not because I support the unions position - I don't. As far as I can see, this strike will probably result in a lot more of them losing their jobs and having to take pay cuts as it will probably be the final nail in the airlines coffin - but if they want to destroy the company that pays their wages th...

Off the coast of Somalia HNLMS Tromp is busy with operation Sweeping Broom. Well, of the coast of the Seychelles would be more accurate. According to legend the namegiver of the ship, admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, raised a broom in the mast at one time, to indicate he had swept the English from the sea. Since then every naval ship with the name Tromp has a broom on board. And at special occa...

Please ask your MP to sign EDM 1079 - Muslims in Britain. You can do this easily by clicking on this link, it takes less than two minutes. The motion follows rising concerns about negative portrayal of Muslims in sections of the media and anti-Muslim demonstrations by extreme right wing groups such as the English Defence

Lawyers who specialise in libel actions against media companies have launched a legal counter-attack against the government in the growing battle over English defamation rules.

Rum lot really: In postwar London, Beauclerk worked for the Central Office of Information until 1964, when he succeeded his second cousin, “Obby”, as 13th Duke of St Albans. He had been no less than ninth in line at the time of his birth (fewer

by George Galloway Morning Star, Sunday 14 January There are weeks to go before a general election and the main parties are struggling. Cue the filthy politics of scapegoating and divide and rule. If it were only the fascists of the British National Party and their street-fighting associates in the English Defence League it would be

Is there any corner of our lives which is not intruded upon by the Health and Safety brigade? The latest casualty is the Cheese Rolling at Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire, where people have chased a round of Double Gloucester cheese...

Lurch, according to my dictionary, is an archaic or dialect intransitive verb, which means ‘to prowl or steal about suspiciously’. Seemingly its sole use in twenty-first century English is to provide Tories with an all-purpose pejorative designation for any identifiable outbreak of milquetoast social democracy inside the Labour Party. Labour, you see, never moves to the