Brexit

Despite progress in the universities pensions fight, the employers still do not accept – and many staff still fail to understand – that there is no pensions deficit at all. It’s actually a destructive fabrication imposed by EU diktat…

Labour's Brexit betrayal

2 October 2018

Labour has aligned itself with those in Westminster who want to betray Britain, betray the trust that people put in the referendum process, and betray democracy itself.

Bolton rally shows spirit for EU fight

27 September 2018

Invoke Democracy Now Public Meeting

The 1,500 enthusiastic Brexiteers who came to Leave Means Leave’s Bolton rally show that the people are ready to fight for Brexit.

Honour the Vote

Wednesday 26 September 2018 19:00

Brighton

Wednesday 26 September, 7pm

Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AF

Organised through Invoke Democracy Now. Tickets (£2 to £3) available via Eventbrite.

Is Britain going to leave the EU in name only? This meeting aims to rally democrats to defend democracy and uphold the democratic mandate to leave the EU.

TUC opposed in closet call for second referendum

13 September 2018

Instead of calling for – effectively – a second referendum, TUC unions should follow the RMT’s lead and assert their own sovereignty against the employers.

Network Rail to use Brexit to scrap money-eating EU regulations

24 August 2018

Network Rail has confirmed that it will use the freedoms presented by next year’s Brexit to cut needless costs.

Let's get on with leaving

The government set out its policy for leaving the European Union in July after the infamous Chequers cabinet meeting, publishing what it called a White Paper. But it’s more like a white flag.

Brexit: The road to freedom

CPBML public meetings

Wednesday 17 October 2018 19:30

London

CPBML/Workers Public Meeting, Wednesday 17 October, 7.30 pm

Bertrand Russell Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

Britain has a skilled and literate workforce, an exceptional research base and abundant energy resources. Free from the shackles of the EU, what can we not achieve? Come and discuss. All welcome.

Proxy wars

The parliamentary parties and the media are currently embroiled in proxy wars about religion and race. These furores are artificial.

BBC pays for its bias

The BBC has been marginalising pro-Brexit views. No wonder its listener numbers are plummeting…

Brexit: stop the sabotage

After the Brexit vote we should be declaring our independence, not asking for favours. Instead the government has been negotiating on its knees. This is sabotage by the majority of politicians from all parties who want to remain in the EU…

TUC: drifting away from the working class

Britain’s trade unions will meet this year in Manchester, where the TUC was founded at the city’s Mechanics Institute 150 years ago. But there’s little to celebrate…

EU drifts into budget crisis

11 August 2018

The ailing bloc faces an overall £18 billion budget shortfall, most of it due to Brexit. But it still plans to spend more.

Treat us like Morocco, says May

12 July 2018

So now we know. The Prime Minister wants from the EU an agreement based on the kind of agreement the EU has with…Morocco.

Swiss battle EU over new treaty terms

3 July 2018

News Analysis

Unnoticed in the British media, a fierce battle is raging as the European Union tries to force Switzerland to agree to wide-ranging changes in its relationship with the bloc.

UCU leadership schemes for second referendum

3 July 2018

Despite a recent annual congress with no motion on a second Brexit referendum, academics’ union leader Sally Hunt has started a consultation on the question.

Brexit boost as JCB invests £50 million

2 July 2018

In a vote of confidence in Brexit, construction equipment maker JCB is to invest more than £50 million in a new factory in Staffordshire.

EU tries aviation blackmail

The EU has banned the European Aviation Safety Agency from talking with the UK Civil Aviation Authority about fallback arrangements in the event of no deal on Brexit, jeopardising travel across Europe.

Take control for an independent Britain

Two years after the referendum, how far are we along the path to freeing ourselves from the EU, taking control and striking out for a truly independent nation?

Be prepared to walk away

The tangle of detail and objections is designed to trap us in the EU net.

EU space blackmail

With its decision to block Britain from sensitive parts of the Galileo project, the EU is treating us like an enemy…

Time for a new democracy

Are we going to press ahead confidently for a full Brexit that will allow the potential of our nation to flourish, or will we be cowed by the EU?

Construction crisis looms

An ageing workforce and an industry dependent on EU labour add up to an imminent crisis for construction.

Walk away

11 June 2018

The tangled Brexit negotiations are designed to trap us in the EU net. But there is a solution: the government must walk away from the table.

EU flounders over R&D and Brexit

9 June 2018

In research and development (as in so many other things) the European Union desperately needs to cooperate with Britain. It’s time we realised its weakness.

Myth and manoeuvring over the Irish border

8 June 2018

The whole issue, “backstop” or none, is being used as a backdoor way of delaying and perhaps denying Brexit.

Fears hyped over US steel tariffs

8 June 2018

Remain-backing MP Stephen Kinnock is trying to use new US steel tarrifs to damage Brexit – but the real danger to Britain’s steel comes from Brussels.

Scandal of EU fishing discards ban

7 June 2018