13 November 2023
Scottish Water workers are striking against regrading and lower pay. Yet the publicly-owned company makes large payments to executives and like others in the industry presides over increased sewage pollution.
13 November 2023
Water companies continue to pump raw sewage into rivers and the sea despite strong campaigning. A new report reveals the extent of pollution by Thames Water.
7 November 2023
British Steel wants to close down the blast furnaces at its Scunthorpe plant. This threatens the jobs of 2,000 skilled workers and the future of the industry.
7 November 2023
Firefighters have launched a manifesto to highlight risks of fire and flood and the impacts of service cuts.
6 November 2023
The coronavirus pandemic affected the level of school attendances across Britain and they have not recovered since. This is brought out in a new report just published.
2 November 2023
The government has scrapped plans to close rail ticket offices in the face of overwhelming opposition from rail workers and passengers – a victory for people power.
25 October 2023
In 1217 the Charter of the Forest established rights of access to royal forests. It’s still of interest, showing how people can exercise power.
Global capitalism warps development across the world. Countries and peoples everywhere become the playthings of billionaires and finance capitalists.
Events in Israel and Gaza have appalled workers everywhere. Workers should demand an end to external interference, opposing both terrorism and reprisals…
All the bluster about illegal immigration – which continues unabated – is designed to obscure the government’s determination to raise migration levels even further…
The Conservative conference went into overdrive as government ministers vied with each other to be seen as tough on immigration. But all that mattered to them was the being seen part.
Britain has to continue to modernise, and that means new infrastructure. That is expensive. But the alternative is to allow capitalism’s decline to take the working class with it…
