Prisons: the facts
The prison population in England and Wales has doubled over the last 30 years. It now stands at over 86,000: Britain has the highest incarceration rate of any Western European country.
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Muck makes money
The water industry is in crisis, like the rest of capitalism. Water quality targets are missed, companies are heavily in debt, infrastructure needs investment. But profits and dividends are up...
Britain must have investment
There is capital – plenty of it – that could be used for investment here in Britain but instead countless billions of pounds are invested overseas. Meanwhile employment and living standards here suffer…
Families don’t grow under capitalism
It’s getting harder and harder to build a family in Britain – and in particular to start one before your thirties. High house prices and low wages mean many are forced to wait longer than they want…
Sex, gender and women’s rights
When women’s rights in Scotland were sacrificed in the name of “progress”, Scottish women decided to fight back. A new book tells their story…
200 years of railways
This year marks the bicentenary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. It will rightly be celebrated with events throughout the year…
Grangemouth: Rally against closure
Hundreds of oil workers from the threatened Grangemouth refinery, delegations from other refineries around the country, and their supporters, marched on Holyrood in Edinburgh on 28 November.
Threat Of War: Campaign at Lakenheath
The campaign against the return of US nuclear weapons to British soil after a 15-year absence is gathering pace.
Water: Thousands march
On 3 November, over 15,000 protesters gathered in central London for the National March for Clean Water. There were simultaneous demonstrations in Glasgow and Belfast.
Pay review sparks outrage [print version]
In mid-December the government announced that the review bodies for public sector workers are awarding rises of 2.8 per cent for 2025.
Pay agreement at Rolls-Royce [print version]
Rolls-Royce engineering workers have finally settled their pay fight in a multi-year agreement.
Nationalisation…or not [print version]
The Labour government proposes to return most of Britain’s passenger rail services to public ownership. This will not of itself bring about changes and improvement to those services