In dispute for over a year, junior hospital doctors have had to draw back from their planned series of five-day strikes against an unsafe contract. But it’s a protracted struggle…
Asked to rule about footballers’ freedom to transfer, the EU went further and removed restrictions on EU players in national clubs. England haven’t won a tournament since…
The referendum result continues to highlight the urgent need for unions to take responsibility for an independent Britain.
Teaching staff in Britain’s universities are ramping up their fight for pay. With the autumn term beginning, they could be joined by administrative staff.
If teacher unions are to protect and improve members’ pay and conditions of work, then tactics and strategy must be reconsidered and revamped.
The struggle for safety and jobs on Britain’s railways is intensifying as the government seeks to take on the unions.
The referendum campaign blunted one EU attack on pensions. Now the real pensions fight must begin.
Some see coops as capable of blunting the effect of privatisation. Is the dream right? Or is reality somewhat different?
During the referendum campaign some tried to blunt the Leave attack by claiming TTIP is dead and buried…
As the call for more resources to train engineers for Britain’s future manufacturing increases, pressure is building for more consolidated action – and a return to previous approaches to training…
After the Referendum we must now do something about what remains of our fishing industry. It’s time to reflect on the devastating impact of the EU and how to revive the industry along with fishing stocks…
The government is trying to turn academia into a machine for facilitating personal gain…
The rail unions are fighting running battles across Britain over safety, with one rail company after the other looking to dispense with guards…
All steel-producing countries are cutting back on production. But only in Britain is it considered feasible to eradicate crude steel production entirely – though it is essential to any modern economy…
Those in favour of staying in the European Union claim it is a force for stability. Nothing could be further from the truth – the EU is falling apart before our eyes…
Another directive, another threat. This time it’s journalists at the receiving end…
The fight for lower hours didn’t begin with the EU. It certainly hasn’t ended with the Working Time Directive – the number of hours we are working is climbing steadily…
The upcoming renewal of the BBC’s charter is an opportunity to expose ‘austerity’ and demand the funding to make a great institution even greater…
The EU’s Agency Workers Directive hasn’t protected us – just encouraged the massive growth of casualisation…
Thanks to George Osborne, ably supported by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, a new word is gaining currency – “academisation”, the forcible conversion of schools into unaccountable academies…
You can’t buck economic laws. It’s not an accident that capitalism doesn’t distribute the results of labour equally.
The new Housing and Planning Bill cultivates and exploits the crisis in housing to strengthen the class power of a tiny minority…
The EU is preparing to hand over power to global corporations to say how we must trade in services – all services. And all in secret.
One of the big lies of the European Union is that it is somehow good for workers. In fact, the EU is attacking the basis of all progress at work – effective collective bargaining…
Free movement? In the EU it just means freedom for employers to lower pay and avoid training…
In an exclusive interview with Workers, two veteran Cuban communists give a fascinating insight into the view from a country where the working class is in command.
With the fascistic Trade Union Bill – attacking membership and finances – shortly to become law, we need organisation and clarity of thinking.
How can Britain be short of nurses and midwives and yet cut back on training places and support? The answer is simple: rob other countries by importing their trained specialists…
Deliberate policies from successive governments have turned Britain into a debtor country, with foreign credit used to finance imports and mortgages.
