Whatever happened to 'Take Control'?
No sooner had control been wrested from the EU than the government set about outsourcing it to the market and the multinationals…
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Public transport in crisis as buses take a hit
The government says Covid-19 is to blame for the disaster engulfing public transport. That's a lie. Its own policies are responsible for the carnage that commuters and travellers see all around them...
SNP, Greens pursue breakaway despite resistance
Recent polling has confirmed that most voters in Scotland continue to oppose the breakup of Britain. That hasn’t deterred Nicola Sturgeon and her coalition allies…
What is the working class?
Back in the nineteenth century Karl Marx wrote that society was dividing into two great hostile classes: the workers, and those who live from exploiting the labour of others. It’s a perfect description of Britain today…
Minerals and the future: the new dig for Britain
Modern life is inconceivable without metals, and the exploitation of Britain's mineral riches means jobs, skills and an increase in technological sovereignty. What's not to like?
One strategy to bind us all
The British state is drawing together previously disparate security strategies. Its aim is the permanent eradication of opposition to globalist capital by their grave-diggers – the working class…
What is farmland for?
Food production is a public good. And it's time to end the false division between food production and nature conservation...
Football – it’s a game of money
The government has released its “fan-led” review of football, but it fails to deal with what is clearly the most pressing issue facing the sport: ownership and control by foreign billionaires…
Energy security – essential for independence
What would it take for Britain to secure energy supply and why is it important?
A way forward for workers
The CPBML has published the political statement from its 19th congress, held last November. It concentrates on the challenges for the working class…
World Economic Forum: globalists vs. the world
Davos, a village in Switzerland, has built itself a reputation as the place globalists come each January to hatch new plans. And at the World Economic Forum, that means above all taming independent nation states…
Filthy rich: the scandal of privatised water
The latest in a series of reports from Greenwich University lays bare the way water companies have been enriching shareholders and directors – at the expense of consumers…
What's to be done about social care?
Health care dominates the discussion on the Health and Care Bill, understandably so in the face of a pandemic. But social care has almost always been an afterthought…
Small is independent: a nuclear future that works
It’s simple: Britain can either develop new sources of nuclear power, or become ever more dependent on the US, China and the technologies they are developing. Fortunately, Britain has an answer in small modular reactors…
In the balance - progress or decline for rail?
Investment in rail could make life better in Britain as well as help the country meet its carbon emission targets. But the government seems obsessed with taking on the rail unions and driving down pay and conditions for staff…
Abattoirs under attack
Britain has come to rely on an underclass of migrant abattoir workers. And we’re all paying the price…
Borrow, Buy, Strip the assets, Sell. Repeat.
The stock market and the companies traded there have never been friends of workers or nations. But now they are being overtaken by something even worse – private equity…
Fishing: where is the Brexit dividend?
Free agent or not after leaving the EU, Britain’s fishermen are still bound in legal chains, locked into another five years (at least) of outrageous concessions ceded in the government’s agreement with the EU…
Who’s counting? Not the government
Headlines about labour shortages don’t give the full story about migration – it’s a complex picture, obscured by a lack of facts. But the statistics are clearly out, by several million. What’s gone wrong?
Fall in British ratings [extended print version]
British seafarers are becoming ever rarer as low wages and immigration waivers bedevil the industry…
Monopoly and regulation: a new path for Britain
Free market economics is coming unstuck. Many workers have always thought this would be the eventual outcome. The question is whether workers will assert their own control…
A community's fight against buy-to-let profiteers
Areas around Britain’s universities are being blighted as once-stable populations are replaced by student lets and multiple occupation – but communities are fighting back. Workers looks at an example from Liverpool…
Free speech and open discussion under attack
Increasingly, media ownership and a growing unwillingness among a minority to tolerate diversity of thought are threatening open debate for our class. It’s an unwelcome and damaging development…
Battle ahead for the future of Britain's rail system
Never waste the opportunity of a good crisis. So runs the capitalist mantra. Now the government and private operators have seized on the pandemic as an ideal time to cut down on costs and boost profits. A huge battle beckons…
SNP and Greens: a coalition born of weakness
The failure of the SNP to gain a majority in the elections to the Scottish parliament has forced them into a huddle with the equally separatist Greens – and into a series of increasingly unpopular policies…
Power grab threatens chaos in teacher training
Having struggled with the impact of Covid-19, the education profession is now facing turmoil as the government seeks to take control of all aspects of teacher training…
The real cost of the zero carbon lobby
Most of the breathless headlines are now penned not by scientists, but by self-styled climate activists, who believe that the problem with the world is people. They don’t want to talk about the real cost – or the possible solutions…
Technology sovereignty in the balance as regulators scrutinise deal
Regulators around the world are looking closely at a massive bid by US company Nvidia for one of the world’s leading chip designers – the British company ARM Holdings.
London on the front line in fight for public transport
The government’s attitude to supporting public transport in the capital doesn’t just spell trouble for Londoners. Workers across Britain should heed this warning and unite in opposition against the threat to TfL…
Race and working class unity
The Sewell report has not gone down well with those committed to the politics of “identity” and division on the basis of skin colour. Above all, it’s optimistic – and with good reason…