Make energy independent
Energy has been hardest hit by the deluge of EU directives instructing us what we could do and how we could do it…
Energy has been hardest hit by the deluge of EU directives instructing us what we could do and how we could do it…
Problem gambling is on the rise and there is little regulation to protect those caught up in this quintessentially capitalist addiction…
A century after the Bolshevik Revolution ushered in workers’ power, the lessons continue to reverberate around the world…
The government talks about having a strategy, but the reality is that overambitious forecasts are likely to leave services cut, and taxpayers and passengers picking up the bill…
Stop all this talk about higher productivity being the route to higher pay. In fact, the reverse is true: only when pay rates rise will capitalists be forced to invest…
Disputes about staffing and pay are sweeping through the rail industry…
Tenants at Grenfell Tower could not have done more to attract attention to the risk of fire. But they were up against more than penny-pinching profiteers – a whole system had been designed to take control away from them…
The current president of the European Commission wants it. So did his predecessors. And now the whole EU is taking steps towards the creation of a unified European military, along with unified defence research…
What happens when the government introduces a childcare scheme but fails to fund it properly? Nurseries are closing, childminders are quitting – and parents and grandparents are picking up the bill…
Trade unions involved in British shipping have set their minds to exploiting the opportunities that will open up when we leave the EU. In so doing, they are setting an example to the whole trade union movement…
After Brexit, we must seize the opportunity to roll back privatisation, the market, and the free movement of labour and capital to rethink Britain’s housing…
Suddenly, politicians seem to be wanting to talk about work. Low wage work, minimum wage work, gig work, any kind of work. Just as long as there’s no contradiction between employers and workers…
The EU is standing to one side in the crisis over Catalonia. But the situation is also of its own making…
Like health care, social care is a vital service. Both need to work together…
Britain could have led the world in fibre broadband. Instead, hostility to nationalised industries and blind faith in the market shut development down – and are still holding back the country’s productive forces…
Students facing a working lifetime of debt are up against the clock. They must use their time at university to demand the abolition of tuition fees – and force their vice-chancellors to join them in the fight…
It’s become a mantra, endlessly repeated by the TUC: “Workers must not pay the price of Brexit.” What price would that be? And how about acknowledging the price of staying in the EU?
We’ve had a government policy paper over free movement. But we still need clarity…
There was a time when the term “industrial strategy” would simply bring sneers from government. The vote to leave the EU has changed all that. The first clear product is a plan for Britain’s shipbuilding industry…
Beset by EU-dictated cost rises, the transport secretary is cancelling a raft of plans to extend electrification across the rail network. The move has sparked fierce opposition, and not a little ridicule…
British universities have been doing well out of EU funding – but at a cost for everyone else…
More and more staff at Barts Health are seeing the importance of protecting Agenda for Change rates…
Academics complain that their wages have been capped since 2008, and they’re right. But they don’t seem to be applying their collective intellect to working out why…
Leaving the EU will also take us away from the advancing moves to form a European army – and make it all the more important that Britain maintains an independent military capability…
Cuba's own experience when Soviet aid was suddenly lost shows that a country that relies on its people has nothing to fear from self-reliance - and everything to gain...
The lowest membership since the Second World War, the lowest number of workers on strike since records began - these are the symptoms of a failure of purpose that most unions are trying their hardest to ignore...
We are witnessing the growth of parallel legal systems run by religious courts…
The working class is the force that drove and achieved the referendum vote for independence. And the working class gave the government the job of leaving the EU. We must hold it to its promise…
The annual Durham Miners Gala started life as a celebration of mining communities but it has become a celebration of trade unionism and working class values…
Socialism brought real progress to Albania, but now the country is a playground for capitalism being driven remorselessly into the arms of the European Union…