Fire deaths were preventable
Alongside the terrorist outrages of the past two months, the horrific fire which swept through a Kensington tower block on 15 June stands apart as a wholly preventable event.
Student debt soars
Student debt is rising at a faster pace than any other form of debt, eclipsing credit card debt of £68 billion.
Dustcart strike vote in Birmingham
Birmingham’s refuse workers have voted for strike action over council plans to axe 122 jobs.
Independence requires a defence industry
Leaving the EU will also take us away from the advancing moves to form a European army – and make it all the more important that Britain maintains an independent military capability…
Lessons for Britain from the Cuban revolution
Cuba's own experience when Soviet aid was suddenly lost shows that a country that relies on its people has nothing to fear from self-reliance - and everything to gain...
Trade unions in crisis – time to change
The lowest membership since the Second World War, the lowest number of workers on strike since records began - these are the symptoms of a failure of purpose that most unions are trying their hardest to ignore...
Why it has to be one law for all
We are witnessing the growth of parallel legal systems run by religious courts…
Independence means taking control
The working class is the force that drove and achieved the referendum vote for independence. And the working class gave the government the job of leaving the EU. We must hold it to its promise…
Albania's election – with EU interference
Socialism brought real progress to Albania, but now the country is a playground for capitalism being driven remorselessly into the arms of the European Union…
No progress without leaving the EU
11 June 2017
Following the election, the overwhelming priority must still be to ensure that Britain manages a clean break with the EU.
Victory over paramedic pay
9 June 2017
Ambulance employers have given way and agreed to the unions’ demand that paramedics be upgraded. It’s the result of a two-year national negotiation – and decades of organisation.
Take back our fish!
Brexit means we are no longer beholden to the EU. As far as fisheries are concerned, we are now in charge.
The election: this time, only one thing matters
24 May 2017
Read the manifestos and one thing is clear: not a single one can be implemented unless Britain leaves the EU, including its disastrous single market.
Looking forward to Durham Miners Gala
22 May 2017
The Durham Miners Gala started life as a celebration of mining communities but is now a celebration of trade unionism and working class values. This year’s Gala has much to celebrate.
EU delusions: French style
22 May 2017
Hailed as Europe’s saviour, Emmanuel Macron’s first foreign trip as French President was to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel. They pledged to draw up a “common road map” for Europe and threatened Britain.
No to EU dodgy Brexit guidelines
12 May 2017
The EU continues to act in bad faith towards Britain over our vote to leave. Its negotiating guidelines aim to continue the European Court's influence over Britain.
So why are we relying on EU healthcare staff?
Do British workers really not want to work in the NHS? No, they want to, but they struggle first to find the money to train, then to live on the wages. And have been reluctant to fight for pay…
Keep it clean
As negotiations on Brexit begin, a new pamphlet cuts through the hard/soft waffle that dominates the media…
No, we're not living longer
The phrase “we are all living longer” has been a well rehearsed slogan to justify an endless attack on state and occupational pension entitlement.
The hidden price of online shopping
While the online shopping giants get spectacularly rich, the workers who deliver to your home face zero hours contracts and long hours for minimal pay. Workers has been investigating the hidden world of the couriers…
Rail: a test case for independence
Building the new Britain means building new railways, making the equipment here in Britain, and running the rail network in the way we decide, for the benefit of the people.
Housing isn't working
Across large parts of Britain houses and flats are not even being built to be homes – just investments…
For an undivided Britain
Internal devolution divides the people of Britain. Like membership of the European Union it will poison our future unless we act. The current undemocratic engineering going on in Manchester shows why it needs to be fought…
Caught in the casual trap
Self-employment was a nice wheeze to falsify the real state of full-time employment. But it’s spiralled out of control and created a £3.5+ billion black hole in Treasury planning. But it’s workers who suffer the most…
US heightens tensions over Korea
25 April 2017
With the US ramping up tension with North Korea, it’s as well to remember that the US has form in Korea.
End in sight for live animal export to EU abattoirs
25 April 2017
In another Brexit opportunity, people are realising that Britain could finally ban or restrict the export of live animals for slaughter after we leave the EU.
Take control, say skippers
Fishermen are overwhelmingly in favour of Britain taking complete control of its inshore and international waters as it leaves the EU, according to a new survey.
Scotland: Unity concert scheduled
A Concert for Unity in Glasgow is set to help boost the renewed campaign to finally defeat separatism