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…
What would it take for Britain to secure energy supply and why is it important?
The CPBML has published the political statement from its 19th congress, held last November. It concentrates on the challenges for the working class…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Britain has come to rely on an underclass of migrant abattoir workers. And we’re all paying the price…
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…
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…
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?
British seafarers are becoming ever rarer as low wages and immigration waivers bedevil the industry…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
The Covid-19 pandemic has taught us – if we needed to be taught – that there is such a thing as society. And that there is such a thing as collective responsibility for the health of the country…
Almost unbelievably, most children’s homes in Britain are run by private equity companies…
During the Covid-19 pandemic young people have been hit particularly hard. Now the prospects for all workers, but for young workers in particular, are going from bad to worse…
As communists, we are for the development of all fields based on human skill and ingenuity. That’s why we chose the theme of science and technology for May Day – because it goes to the heart of the idea of progress…
Freeports are a reality. Most workers have never heard of them, but they soon will – and workers’ organisation within them will really matter…
Obesity in Britain is increasing, especially in children. This is a relatively recent development, but the trend is clear and persistent…
Listen to Home Secretary Priti Patel and other ministers and you might get the idea that the government is cracking down on all immigration, legal and illegal. But cheap labour is still being encouraged into Britain…
