Huge rise in student loan rate
A sharp increase in inflation means millions of students and former students will see a rise in interest rates on tuition and maintenance loans this year.
Housing: Micro-flats
Plans are being made to convert offices into flats as small as 16 square metres.
New factory to produce electric taxis
The London Taxi Company is aiming to produce 5,000 electric vehicles a year by 2019 at the first new car factory in Britain for more than a decade.
Bristol -- time to get shipshape
With independence from the EU in sight, Britain itself is far from "shipshape and Bristol fashion" – and Bristol itself is a prime example of this.
Minimum wage? For millions it's a maximum
With a rise in the minimum wage coming into effect on 1 April, the Low Pay Commission has published its analysis of the impact of the National Minimum Wage introduced by the Treasury in 2016.
Legal attack on injury claims
10 April 2017
The government is now changing the rules for compensation for injury by the sleight of hand of increasing the small claims court limits.
'Solid' RMT action over driver-only trains
9 April 2017
RMT members chose to strike on Grand National day to get maximum publicity for their campaign of opposition to plans to introduce driver-only-operated trains
Article 50: A day to celebrate
29 March 2017
On 23 June 2016 we declared our intention to Leave. Now Article 50 has been invoked and the clock is ticking.
European Parliament dodges its own budget debate
23 March 2017
The leaders of the European Parliaments political groups have abandoned plans to allow the body to debate its own controversial 2018 spending plans.
Fisheries workers call for control over British waters
21 March 2017
With control of our fisheries an acid test of Brexit, workers within the industry have launched a petition calling for control over British fishing waters.
Who says we're post industrial?
19 March 2017
A Westminster meeting showed that throwing off the shackles of the EU has created an exhilarating climate in which all kinds of people are re-imagining an industrial Britain.
Vauxhall: smoke and mirrors
17 March 2017
Those who still resist Britain’s departure from the EU are deliberately misrepresenting the decision by car maker Groupe PSA to take over the General Motors Vauxhall and Opel car plants at Luton and Ellesmere Port.
London Stock Exchange merger plans totter
14 March 2017
The attempt by Germany’s stock to create an EU-wide monster is fragmenting.
Osborne: still meddling in the North
10 March 2017
Out of office, George Osborne continues to champion the breakup of Britain and the “Americanisation” of local government.
Rising to the manufacturing challenge
The era of taking instructions from the EU is over. With the government reversing decades of free market ideology and creating an industrial strategy, unions need to radically recalibrate their own thinking…
A future for fishing
The EU almost snuffed out Britain’s fishing fleets. Now the industry is looking at a huge opportunity…
No to the break-up of Britain!
The SNP and the Yes campaign supporters have been the cheerleaders for EU membership and the concept of “Scotland in the EU”. Yet working class unity across Britain is essential to our future…
Safety first
Britain’s railways have become a battleground as companies bent on profit look to cut corners…
They're turning prisons into profit centres
The prison population is soaring. Meanwhile, conditions of work suffer - and more prisoners than ever are commiting suicide and self-harming. But never mind, there's profit to be made...
Real independence and the single market trap
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…
Class struggle across a nation
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.
The long shadow of war
A journalist looks at the consequences – throughout the Middle East – of the 2003 invasion of Iraq…
Independence: Take control
A new era is dawning for Britain. Workers must make sure it serves the interests of an independent country and brings progress.
Trade: their freedom, not ours
With the prospect of Britain leaving the EU, we’re starting to hear a lot about “free trade”. Workers should be wary.
Mini and Rolls workers fight pension cuts
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.
Cleaning workers take on outsourcing giant
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.
The EU's propaganda war
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.
Rail: Shovelling money abroad
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.
Another banking bailout on the way?
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.