Osborne: still meddling in the North
10 March 2017
Out of office, George Osborne continues to champion the breakup of Britain and the “Americanisation” of local government.
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Rising to the manufacturing challenge
The era of taking instructions from the EU is over. With the government reversing decades of free market ideology and creating an industrial strategy, unions need to radically recalibrate their own thinking…
A future for fishing
The EU almost snuffed out Britain’s fishing fleets. Now the industry is looking at a huge opportunity…
No to the break-up of Britain!
The SNP and the Yes campaign supporters have been the cheerleaders for EU membership and the concept of “Scotland in the EU”. Yet working class unity across Britain is essential to our future…
Safety first
Britain’s railways have become a battleground as companies bent on profit look to cut corners…
They're turning prisons into profit centres
The prison population is soaring. Meanwhile, conditions of work suffer - and more prisoners than ever are commiting suicide and self-harming. But never mind, there's profit to be made...
Class struggle across a nation
We look at two struggles from the late 19th century that helped define our class, and what Britain means…
Customs union – another unification ploy
The Scottish and Welsh regional administrations are urging the government to stay in the single market – predictably, since it effectively means staying in the EU and under the authority of its Court of Justice. But they are also calling for Britain to stay in the Customs Union.
Real independence and the single market trap
When the EU invented the concept of the “single market”, it was playing fast and loose with language. It’s not so much a market, more a mechanism for enforcing EU control over national economies and national life…
Class struggle across a nation
25 February 2017
Since the birth of industrial capitalism, a web of industrial sinews has held the constituent regions of Britain together. The recent dismembering of much of that web has brought not only economic collapse to regions but also threatened our national integrity. We recount struggles in Scotland, London and North Wales that pursued essential class goals of improving wages and conditions of work.
The long shadow of war
A journalist looks at the consequences – throughout the Middle East – of the 2003 invasion of Iraq…