Struggle is under way to reverse decades of decline in culture funding. From Cardiff to Nottingham, from Edinburgh to Birmingham and beyond, those who work in the arts are fighting for their future…
The government is keen — alarmingly keen — to say that the NHS is “broken”. You might almost think that ministers would like it to be…
It’s bad business as usual: employers and their governments continue to blockade training for British workers. It’s no accident, either, rather a deliberate policy…
The departure from the political stage of many leading separatists, be it through illness, death, scandal or retreat, marks the end of an era for Scotland and a new opportunity in the quest for a united British nation…
Look behind the fine façade of the Just Transition Commission, and all you find are false promises, lack of transparency, indifference, and inaction by governments ducking their responsibilities…
The Labour government’s new water bill is a fraud. It will do nothing about the debt that continues to hamstring the industry. And nothing, either, about the blatant failure to maintain minimum environmental standards…
What do workers in and outside of higher education think is its purpose in our society? And are they prepared to fight for it?
Public services are in a sorry state, and the new government has other priorities, like devolution and backing wars. Our focus must be on what change is needed in our public services – and how we can make it come about…
A snapshot of the condition of our country shows the scale of the problem facing us and also suggests a path to return Britain to progress…
The headlong rush into what are still unreliable and inadequate ‘green’ technologies is putting at risk the energy security that the country requires to maintain and develop modern life…
We look at some of the proposals from the Labour government. There’s little to benefit workers, and a great deal to cause real concern…
Journey times have to be shortened, new timetables and track are needed, but there’s no commitment from Labour or Conservatives to the planning and investment required…
A nation must be able to feed itself. To do so needs both management and planning. Capitalism increasingly demonstrates it is capable of neither…
A country where a quarter of the workforce is not working is destined to decline. What is going on? Who are the nearly 9 million people “not actively looking for work”?
On foreign matters, as on domestic matters, there is no free choice. Labour and Conservative both claim to be more pro-NATO, more pro-war, than the other…
The Post Office Horizon scandal has exposed a deep-rooted problem. It’s more than the misbehaviour of individuals, it’s about the way capitalism works – and what workers can do about it…
A working class asserting its right to be an independent nation, with control over its industry, should make the materials critical to energy and advanced manufacturing very much its business…
The state has tried to meet its needs by printing more and more money. No wonder we have inflation…
Britain needs unity, not division, not devolution. In Scotland the multiple failures of the ruling SNP separatists are coming home to roost…
Despite the huge sums of money, the vast quantities of ammunition, and the covert presence of soldiers on the ground, the war in Ukraine is not going well for imperialism. Their answer: double down…
It’s not enough to say that renewable energy is the solution to environmental woes. Technology alone will fail. What is needed is long-term planning, and we are a long way away from that…
There’s a whole industry dedicated to ‘proving’ that importing workers into Britain is an undiluted good. Tell that to young people looking for somewhere even remotely affordable to live…
Examining the glaring limitations of present-day political arrangements forces us to fathom the best way of confronting the myriad problems surrounding us…
High street names are disappearing, branches are being closed, city centres are emptying. Is nobody buying anything any more – or are capitalist greed and asset stripping to blame?
The capitalist class wants to shackle organised workers. That’s the whole point of its recent legislation on minimum service levels. What can we do about it?
Health workers and the rest of our class know that radical changes are needed to ensure the future of the NHS. Where is the necessary leadership coming from?
The drive to net zero is creating problems without solving them. Changes demanded for vehicles, domestic heating and farming are impractical. It’s time to expose the falsity in the casual idealism of government and policy makers…
Many people wonder why successive governments have failed to reduce immigration, or even control it. The answer is simple: the government and the employers like immigration, because it weakens workers.
