25 November 2019
Classes at universities across Britain and Northern Ireland are being disrupted as staff begin an eight-day strike today. The action is due to last from 25 November until 4 December.
Unison, GMB and Unite members have stopped plans by a major acute NHS hospital in Berkshire and Surrey to transfer more than a thousand of its staff out of NHS employment.
19 November 2019
The campaign group Fishing for Leave has issued a new press release about the effect of the proposed “deal” for leaving the EU on UK fishing, and the benefits of a clean break.
19 November 2019
The Unite HQ in Glasgow was the setting for a trade union meeting involving current and former officials of the RMT union and others that heard from Anthony Coughlan, a veteran of decades of struggle against the EU in Ireland.
Instead of draining other countries of their trained nurses, we should be taking steps to increase the number here who qualify – and the number who stay in the profession.
18 November 2019
While RMT negotiators inch towards a final settlement of the long running dispute in Merseyrail, the dispute in South Western Railway has escalated dramatically – and a new front has opened up in West Midlands Trains.
18 November 2019
The High Court has handed down an injunction against the postal workers’ strike, due to begin in December after an overwhelming majority of members voted for it.
13 November 2019
Brexit has brought the EU’s plans to a financial standstill that shows little signs of easing.
5 November 2019
The general election campaign has started, and with it the combined efforts of the establishment seeking to distract us into delegating the job of independence to parliament.
1 November 2019
The planned official Brexit rally in Parliament Square in London on 31 October did not go ahead. Instead, hundreds of demonstrators arrived to stand opposite parliament to make their feelings felt.
Joseph Stiglitz has won a Nobel Prize for Economics and established himself as a powerful critic of capitalism – but he still seems wedded to it…
Yes, it’s possible to produce energy without using nuclear power or fossil fuels. But at the moment the price tag for that will be a reversion to pre-industrial levels of production and consumption. No central heating, anyone?
Beset by failure in running Scotland, at the SNP party conference in October leader Nicola Sturgeon was forced to bring forward her plan to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence in 2020…
The chaos in bus services looks set to continue with the government rejecting key recommendations in a detailed Transport Committee report. ‘Regulated competition’ – the EU’s old refrain – is still being imposed…
Brexit is about far more than trade and who makes our laws. It is also about who we owe loyalty to, who controls our defence and to whom our military owe allegiance. Inside the EU, that allegiance is above all to the EU…
Despite the chaos in Parliament, fundamentally nothing has changed. We still haven’t left, and the opposition has become ever more hysterical – and coldly calculating…
23 October 2019
Brexit undecided. All options are in the air. But for the people of Britain, those who live and work here, there is only one that works – no deal.
We can sit back and trust any state dedicated to the pursuit of profit to guarantee our rights at work and in the environment – least of all the would-be superstate the EU.
Protesters marked the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre with a marchin Manchester on 19 October calling for democracy to be upheld and the EU referendum result implemented.
More than a million workers in Britain do not receive any of the holiday pay they are guaranteed by law
Liverpool City Council is facing its worst financial crisis since the Second World War, says its mayor.
House building across England has fallen to the slowest quarterly rate for three years.
19 October 2019
The prime minister says “Let’s get Brexit done” but the deal he is bringing before Parliament is not Brexit.
The government is to publish a White Paper to implement the findings of the review of the rail industry led by Keith Williams – ruling out further public ownership.
With universities short of money, more than 4,400 senior staff were paid over £100,000 a year in 2017-8, up more than 10 per cent on the previous year’s tally.
What’s so good about free trade agreements? They make the rich richer, workers poorer, and they rob countries of the ability to plan…
3 October 2019
A new study from a French bank predicts a science and technology boom in Brtain over the next two decades. Unlike many reports into Brexit, it looks at the long term and predicts a positive future.
More than 80 per cent of state schools in England will have less funding per pupil in real terms in 2020 than in 2015, according to new analysis.
25 September 2019
New analysis shows that councils’ spending on youth services in England has been reduced by 69 per cent in a decade.
