Back to basics in Brighton
September sees an increased focus on Britain’s trade unions as the TUC holds its annual meeting in Brighton.
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A united Britain for progress
The ruling class drive to dissolve and divide Britain is a decades-long, never-ending enterprise. And yet they have not succeeded. It’s time for workers to push back.
V&A management under the spotlight
29 September 2026
Victoria & Albert Museum workers are putting the museum’s intransigent management under the spotlight with a lively demonstration on 25 September in pursuit of their ongoing claims on wages and conditions.
ICR staff win historic pay dispute
29 September 2026
Workers at the prestigious Institute of Cancer Research in London, ranging from logistics and store staff to researchers and scientists have won their 66-day fight for better pay and conditions after their first ever strikes.
Groundbreaking win on the buses
10 September 2026
Arriva bus drivers in London have secured a groundbreaking victory to improve their working conditions, and this will apply to all the capital’s buses. This followed walkouts in August and the threat of further strikes in September.
Heat on the NHS
10 September 2026
Five heatwaves this summer exposed the creaking and ill-maintained NHS infrastructure. The season may have changed, but the problems won’t go away and can’t be left to management or politicians to solve.
East Midlands Railway safety strike
9 September 2026
Workers on East Midlands Railway took strike action over the August Bank Holiday due to safety concerns with new trains. They will take further action unless the company makes improvements.
Iceland says no to the EU!
9 September 2026
The people of Iceland have said no to talks on joining the EU. This is an assertion of their independence and a significant setback for the EU’s strategic aims.
Independence, immigration and community
From an unequal agreement with the EU on youth mobility to low thresholds for wages in shortage occupations, governments are relentlessly encouraging more immigration to Britain. That is bad for the working class…
Cold winds are blowing through Britain’s research
Another government, another change in the way research is funded. The Burnham regime has already seen the dismantling of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology…
This new defence plan is not what Britain needs
The Defence Investment Plan was Keir Starmer’s parting gift to his successor. And like everything Starmer did, it is part ineffective, part downright dangerous…
Brexit 10 years on: the fight for independence
A decade after the epic vote to leave the European Union, the fight for independence continues - in the face of continuing attempts by government and the establishment to ignore or overturn the referendum...