27 October 2026
Many comments ahead of the Budget talk about the need to spend on defence and that welfare payments are unaffordable. The country’s finances are unsustainable, but not for the reasons government and economists say.
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…
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…
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…
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...
Measures to authorise new investment in North Sea oil and gas are becoming increasingly urgent…
Can Britain move away from fossil fuels and adapt to climate change? Yes, to a degree, and these would be good aims. But government net zero policy targets won’t help…
The standard of maternity care remains a dire concern. The new prime minister sees solutions in devolution but the evidence points to problems in maternity care across Britain regardless of funding models…
A recent CPBML meeting discussed how workers here can respond to foreign wars. One conclusion: removing Britain from the crumbling NATO alliance would be a good start…
How to measure the rate of inflation may seem a technical, dry subject. And much of it is. But its implications matter for workers, not least because of its role as a reference point for pay bargaining…
When talking about energy policy, it’s worth looking in detail at Britain’s energy needs and supply – and what that means for industry and households…
We live in dangerous times – often said, but it’s true. The world is getting steadily more dangerous. But there is a way forward: independence…
Teachers are heading for struggle, returning to issues not settled after action in recent years…
In the second of a two-part feature Workers looks at the contest between the EU and the other imperial powers for the Arctic’s natural resources…
Homelessness and high rents are two linked aspects of the housing crisis for workers in Britain…
Devolution does not help British workers. The answer is to wrest power for the working class, and not give it away to posturing politicians…
Governments are obsessed with the affordability of adult social care. But they never confront the matter so intimately linked with older people’s physical and mental decline – the decline of Britain…
War means that prices, and taxes, go up. It is both a cause of inflation and an excuse for government and employers to pass off a systemic element of capitalism as nothing to do with them…
Britain relies on oil and gas for around three-quarters of its energy – a level that has hardly changed in decades. We will be relying on oil and gas for the foreseeable future, as the Climate Change Committee says…
In the first of a two-part feature Workers looks at what’s going on in the Arctic, and the looming war over its natural resources…
On 19 March the government announced its steel strategy, including import tariffs. But there are wider challenges to face to secure the vital industry, particularly the cost of energy…
27 March 2026
On 19 March the government announced its steel strategy, including import tariffs. But there are wider challenges to face to secure the vital industry, particularly the cost of energy.
Britain needs to be out of NATO and out of the grip of US foreign policy. The alternative is to be dragged into wars of America’s – and the EU’s – making…
The government says it is going to completely reform the special educational needs and disabilities system. Professionals and parents are looking on with scepticism…
Debt hangs over British workers, and it’s growing – forcing millions of workers to depend for their existence on finance capitalism…
It is evident to all workers, and many capitalists, that Britain is experiencing a worsening decline in the economy, unable to provide the jobs, goods and services people need. But that observation on its own will not lead to change…
Britain is being covered with vast data centres. Workers are going to face even bigger utility bills as a result. And a great deal of the power they consume is used keeping track of the population…
Polling shows overwhelming support in Scotland for developing our own oil and gas resources. Politicians in Holyrood and Westminster from a wide range of parties think they know better…
Ten years after the announcement of a referendum on EU membership, Workers looks back at the struggle…which is not over.
In a world where rival imperialisms and globalist corporations seek to cement their power, a strong nation state is a precondition of independence. Yet some seem confused about what being British entails…
