ULEZ scheme challenged
The High Court has granted a judicial review of the expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone...
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Teachers reject pay offer in fight for education
The well crafted and deliberate attacks on education by government are now being resisted by workers, who believe this is a critical point in the struggle to arrest decline…
The truth about the claims for electric vehicles
It is time to examine the case for electric vehicles. The arguments, rooted in net zero dogma, don’t stand up to reality. Investment is needed, not imposed targets…
Creating class control in practice
Control is the power of directing what happens in a country, or an industry. We say workers must take control, but that has quite a different meaning for workers than for capitalists…
Britain needs better transport - much better
A report from the TUC and transport unions calls for a massive increase in investment and financial support for public transport outside of London – rail, tram and bus…
Britain is one nation - no to all separatism!
Separatism takes different forms across Britain, a reactionary movement backed only by a minority. The struggle for unity will have to be persistent and strategic…
Meet the new capitalists
This book describes how modern, transnational capitalism operates against the interests of workers everywhere, out of reach of national governments…
Slavery, banks and empire
Only the ruling class benefited from slavery. During the long struggle to end it over 1.5 million of Britain’s 12 million people signed petitions against it…
Pensions reform: new risks
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, speaking at an International Monetary Fund meeting in April, said the pension system needs reform to ensure pensioners receive higher returns. That would seem to mean higher risk and more speculation.
Royal Mail dispute settled [print version]
Royal Mail postal delivery workers have settled their complex pay struggle after 11 months of well supported industrial action.
Food rip-off revealed [print version]
British farmers are being ripped off by an industrial-scale country of origin fraud...
Food fraud rip off revealed
25 April 2023
Farmers Weekly has revealed that British farmers were being ripped off by a large-scale fraud, with huge quantities of foreign pork passed off as British.