Britain
UK fracking firms face surge of protests
April 18, 2012News that a gas extraction process which triggered two earthquakes is likely to resume brought a surge of protest bubbling to the surface on Tuesday.
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Britain’s Morning Star feels no joy on queen’s anniversary
February 8, 2012Defenders 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.
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UK: 2 million strike to save their pensions
December 1, 2011Tory attempts to belittle public-sector industrial action rang pathetically hollow.
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In Britain too, public workers under fire
November 30, 2011Chancellor George Osborne careened ahead with disastrous economic policies as he launched a vicious new attack on public-sector workers.
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British trade unionists come out for Cuba and the Cuban Five
September 21, 2011From 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.
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