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…
19 December 2024
The number of British companies sold to foreign investors continues to rise, up sharply on last year. This is not “investment” but amounts to selling British industry on the cheap.
6 March 2024
The promise of massive investment in battery production for electric vehicles has yet to materialise in Britain. But it looks as if Tata are now committed to a plant in Somerset.
Free market economics is coming unstuck. Many workers have always thought this would be the eventual outcome. The question is whether workers will assert their own control…
30 July 2021
More than 600 steel-making jobs at Sheffield Forgemasters have been secured following the decision to nationalise the company.
9 February 2021
It’s been a lousy few days for the doomsday merchants, the ones who said that companies would flee Britain once Brexit bit.
If you don’t agree that foreign investors should buy up swathes of London you are “economically illiterate”, says London Mayor Boris Johnson.
Capitalism claims to be by nature enterprising. The claim is repeated so often and is so rarely questioned that it has assumed the guise of an indisputable truth.
