Demanding "No More Deaths On Our Streets," Homeless March Makes Its Way Across Britain

On April 15, Manchester Town Hall was in lockdown as anti-austerity protestors attempted to storm the building – part of a March for the Homeless campaign aimed at raising awareness around homelessness issues.

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Reports Show Austerity Is Hitting the UK’s Poorest Regions the Hardest

As wealth inequality deepens in the U.K., recent research by the Institute of Fiscal Studies shows it’s the most deprived areas – and the poorest households – that are bearing the brunt of incessant austerity policies.

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Wages, Tuition, Housing: Why Young U.K. Voters Are Going Green

The party hits all the right notes with millennials.

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After HSBC Scandal, Growing Calls for Tax Transparency To Combat Inequality

To combat the burgeoning wealth inequality that tax loopholes help create, Oxfam says it's essential that European legislators create greater transparency on tax matters.

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UK Green Party Accused Of Abandoning the Left As Elections Near

An acclaimed British columnist recently reproached the Green Party for not being fundamentally Left – raising the question of whether the Greens, who are now surging in popularity, are at the same time losing their socialist roots.

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Green Party Resurgence In UK Fueled By Smart Policies to Address Housing and Unemployment

As the Green Party sees a huge surge in popularity in the run-up to Britain's General Election in May, its leaders are proposing an alternative policy to unemployment that would make sure nobody lives in fear of losing their home.

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London’s Supremacy Grows As Britain’s North-South Economic Divide Widens

As London and the towns and cities in its vicinity flourish with new jobs, talent and money, life to the North is being choked.

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"A Democratic Outrage" In Britain As Lawmakers Push to End the Right to Strike

A row has broken out between the government and the Trades Union Congress over plans to ban protests without at least 40% of support from union members. Those in favor of the proposed crackdown on industrial action say it will stop U.K.

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Why 5,000 U.K. Police Officers Could Be Off the Job Due to Austerity Cuts

As unruly protests by New York City police continue to rile U.S. media, police officers in the U.K. are finding themselves on the austerity frontlines with thousands of jobs threatened in the coming years.

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Baroness’s "Poor People Don’t Know How To Cook" Remark Ignites Furor Over UK Food Poverty

Due to welfare cutbacks, rising food prices and unlivable wages, a growing number of people in Britain are having to resort to food banks as a means of staving off hunger.

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