UK
Buried in the back garden: families priced out of decent burials
December 10, 2014UK families have been forced to bury loved ones in their back gardens amid an upsurge in "paupers' funerals" caused by rising costs and grant cuts.
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Scotland: In the wake of referendum “No” result
September 19, 2014Scots voted No to independence by 55 per cent to 45 per cent, but the referendum debate energised a people determined to strike a blow against a pampered Westminster elite.
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Education counter-revolution in England sounds awfully familiar
June 24, 2014The Conservative-led coalition government in the UK has embarked on a "shock therapy" deregulatory binge across the English education sector.
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Today in history: England’s 99% crushed
June 15, 2012On June 15, 1381, Wat Tyler, a leader of a peasant/laborer rebellion that swept England, was killed by the king's supporters.
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UK’s labor leader Bob Crow builds solidarity at the Left Labor Project
March 19, 2012We believe the trade union movement is not just about what wages or what contract you get but about the social side: Decent transportation, affordable housing, a decent welfare state.
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