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…
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.
A journalist looks at the consequences – throughout the Middle East – of the 2003 invasion of Iraq…
A booklet published last year by the Campaign for an Independent Britain, The Betrayal of Britain’s Fishing to the European Union, puts forward specific proposals for how we can now restore control over Britain’s fish.
Fishing communities around Britain are looking for guarantees that their industry will not lose out again after Brexit
A new era is dawning for Britain. Workers must make sure it serves the interests of an independent country and brings progress.
With the prospect of Britain leaving the EU, we’re starting to hear a lot about “free trade”. Workers should be wary.
23 February 2017
Talks between the Unite union and BMW over the German carmaker’s plans to close its final salary pension scheme are set to continue, but the threat of industrial action remains.
23 February 2017
Cleaners at King’s College London have been offered higher staffing levels after going on strike over excessive workload and a threat of reorganisation.
Despite the decision in June 2016 to leave the European Union, the European Commission is continuing to try and widen its network of propaganda outlets in Britain.
Last year more than £90 million was paid out in dividends to the mainly state-owned Italian, French, Dutch and German rail companies running British rail franchises.
In a demonstration of the failure of free market economics, the Co-op Bank has been put up for sale by its largely US hedge fund controllers.
