Ticket office victory
2 November 2023
The government has scrapped plans to close rail ticket offices in the face of overwhelming opposition from rail workers and passengers – a victory for people power.
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1217: The Charter of the Forest
25 October 2023
In 1217 the Charter of the Forest established rights of access to royal forests. It’s still of interest, showing how people can exercise power.
Workers - the force for change
Global capitalism warps development across the world. Countries and peoples everywhere become the playthings of billionaires and finance capitalists.
Stay out of Israel and Palestine! [print version]
Events in Israel and Gaza have appalled workers everywhere. Workers should demand an end to external interference, opposing both terrorism and reprisals…
Why the employers love rising immigration
All the bluster about illegal immigration – which continues unabated – is designed to obscure the government’s determination to raise migration levels even further…
Tough? It's just a show
The Conservative conference went into overdrive as government ministers vied with each other to be seen as tough on immigration. But all that mattered to them was the being seen part.
HS2 - Sunak condemns Britain's rail to decline
Britain has to continue to modernise, and that means new infrastructure. That is expensive. But the alternative is to allow capitalism’s decline to take the working class with it…
Where's the capacity?
East-West Rail is a project currently renewing and rebuilding a largely disused rail line between Oxford and Cambridge.
More delay, more cost
To fit with the government’s scaled-down plans the station at Old Oak Common will have to be completely redesigned with more platforms to act as a terminus rather than a through station as originally planned
Homeless in Manchester
Manchester is an example of a supposedly booming city where housing problems are acute…
Social care - too costly not to act
Can Britain afford not to transform social care? It’s up to workers everywhere to demand change and not be fobbed off with more delay…
The Grenfell Tower Fire - and accountability
The public inquiry set up soon after the Grenfell Tower Fire completed its hearings last November and is expected to publish its final report in 2024. There’s much to learn already…