Rail: SNP sells out to Dutch
The SNP-led administration in Scotland has awarded the contract to run ScotRail to Abellio, owned by Dutch state rail company NS.
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The fight to revive British shipbuilding
The defeat of separatism in the referendum has spurred some regeneration in Scottish shipyards. But the challenge remains: how to rebuild a vital industry laid waste by decades of contraction…
Pay: Fiasco in local government
The local government workers’ pay “dispute” is in now in period of consultation, set to end on 12 November – and the latest stage of an increasingly bad farce.
New threat to steel plants
Steel workers in Britain once again find their jobs threatened after Tata Steel announced plans to sell its Long Products Division.
We need a national plan, not division
The Scottish referendum stimulated local authorities in England to look to their own version of fragmentation…
We are changing
This journal is changing. In fact, the whole way the CPBML produces news is changing, starting with a free electronic newsletter.
The NHS: unsafe in their hands
By the end of the next parliament the NHS could become a thing of the past, regardless of who is elected. Only workers can save it…
Arts: National Gallery strike
Staff at the National Gallery in London held a 24-hour strike on 15 October, the opening day of the blockbuster Rembrandt exhibition.
Property: The vultures gather
An international feast of property speculators visited London for the first time in October – networking, partying, and carving up Britain’s assets.
When Britain ran its roads
Thatcher did not start the roll back of postwar nationalisation. Capitalism’s unease at state control of the British economy surfaced as early as 1953…
The politics of Hong Kong protest
19 October 2014
The so-called “pro-democracy” demonstrators seeking to occupy central areas of Hong Kong are for the return of Hong Kong as an independent capitalist statelet, severed from mainland China.
Union organisation answer to benefits freeze
17 October 2014
Chancellor Osborne told the Tory conference in Birmingham he will freeze working-age benefits re-elected. The consequences might – and should – be a rise in trade union organisation.