How the EU attacks the right to strike
In the last issue, we looked at how workers pay the price of the European Union. In this article, we focus on how the EU has restricted unions’ ability to defend wages and conditions…
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Further education: a vital area for growth
With a new prime minister saying we will leave the EU by 31 October at the latest, those who work in further education must seize the opportunity to say what is needed – and to demand it happens…
The big opportunity for homes fit for workers
The need for truly affordable housing is universally acknowledged, yet it is not delivered. Brexit, implemented with control over the economy and migration, will allow Britain to plan properly to house its people…
The animals are not for burning
For 45 years British farming has been distorted by the European Union. And there’s no shortage of ideas about how to run it after Brexit…
Wages on the up - just
Wage growth in the UK rose to 3.6 per cent in the year to May 2019, the highest growth rate since 2008, according to Office for National Statistics figures.
Motors electric investment
At the start of July Jaguar Land Rover announced a huge investment to build electric cars in Britain.
EU federalists appointed
Ursula von der Leyen, the outgoing German defence minister, has been appointed the new European Commission President, a choice confirmed after she won the votes of 52 per cent of the members of the European Parliament.
Irish farmers protest [shorter version]
Irish Beef farmers are holding a series of protests calling on their government and the EU for support.
1917–1920: the Russian Civil War [shorter version]
After the October Revolution, soldiers from 15 countries invaded Russia in an attempt to destroy the Soviet Union, but it emerged victorious…
The failure of privatised water
If capitalism could charge for the air we breathe, we’d be paying through the nose for it. And why not? They’ve already managed it with water…
Restrict air strikes, says EU
In June 2017 the European Commission issued an official communication and an accompanying staff working document calling for member states to implement restrictions on the right to strike in air traffic control.
No flag of ours
The seized Stena Impero is owned by a Swedish company with no British crew. So why the British flag?