Government renews rail franchise chaos
The franchise to run the heavily used Thameslink service for seven years has gone to a company partly owned by French state railway operator SNCF...
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Newspapers: Hitting back at the hub
Industrial action is sweeping through Newsquest papers as journalists strike back against pay restraint, job loss and plans to move editorial production to a central hub in South Wales.
Dangerous manoeuvres
NATO military exercises including British troops are due to take place in Ukraine in July. This is a dangerous move that will inevitably escalate an already tense situation.
Positive thinking
Sometimes it seems as if opposition to capitalism remains just that – opposition. Are we so mired in the trenches that we cannot lift our sights and think not about opposing their plans but proposing our own?
Iraq: tragedy and farce
Karl Marx famously wrote that history repeats itself – the first time as tragedy, then as farce. That sums up the contortions that the US is twisting itself into over Iraq, shabbily abetted by Cameron.
Education: Victory for reason
In a dramatic victory for rational thought over mysticism, the government has decreed that creationism cannot be taught as science in any existing or future academy or free school.
Which class wants supremacy?
In the first of a two-part analysis of class in the 21st century, Workers dismisses the notion that class is dead. In fact it is central to making sense out of our day-to-day experiences and the world at large.
Where’s the holiday?
Workers are failing to take the full amount of holiday they are entitled to, according to a survey of more than 2,000 staff.
Second strike at TfL
Travel centres at stations across the capital were disrupted on 13 June in what the unions involved have dubbed a “let them eat cake” dispute at Transport for London.
NHS protests across England
As part of the ongoing pay dispute in the NHS, Unison and other health unions organised protests across England with lobbies, banners and stalls at dozens of hospital gates on 5 June.
Minerals: Tungsten mine for Devon
The first new metal mine in Britain for 40 years will open next year in Devon following the approval of £130 million of investment.
Water cannon: Johnson campaign ploy
The Mayor of London has bought three ex-German Federal Reserve Police water cannon – without authority to deploy them.