The withdrawal of Hargreaves Services from the funding package to keep Kellingley pit in West Yorkshire open for a further two years of managed closure has brought to the fore the prospect of an early shutdown.
The Scottish referendum is an attempt to turn the growing desire in Britain to be an independent country into its opposite, for Britain to be partitioned instead.
Scotland is a world leader in the highly competitive arena of biomedical research – and it is becoming increasingly clear that separation could cause immense harm to Scotland’s research base.
All harmless fun? There’s another side to the Eurovision song contest, and it’s not pretty…
The franchise to run the heavily used Thameslink service for seven years has gone to a company partly owned by French state railway operator SNCF...
Industrial action is sweeping through Newsquest papers as journalists strike back against pay restraint, job loss and plans to move editorial production to a central hub in South Wales.
NATO military exercises including British troops are due to take place in Ukraine in July. This is a dangerous move that will inevitably escalate an already tense situation.
Sometimes it seems as if opposition to capitalism remains just that – opposition. Are we so mired in the trenches that we cannot lift our sights and think not about opposing their plans but proposing our own?
Karl Marx famously wrote that history repeats itself – the first time as tragedy, then as farce. That sums up the contortions that the US is twisting itself into over Iraq, shabbily abetted by Cameron.
In a dramatic victory for rational thought over mysticism, the government has decreed that creationism cannot be taught as science in any existing or future academy or free school.
In the first of a two-part analysis of class in the 21st century, Workers dismisses the notion that class is dead. In fact it is central to making sense out of our day-to-day experiences and the world at large.
Workers are failing to take the full amount of holiday they are entitled to, according to a survey of more than 2,000 staff.
Travel centres at stations across the capital were disrupted on 13 June in what the unions involved have dubbed a “let them eat cake” dispute at Transport for London.
As part of the ongoing pay dispute in the NHS, Unison and other health unions organised protests across England with lobbies, banners and stalls at dozens of hospital gates on 5 June.
House prices in London have risen by 17 per cent in the past 12 months – a disastrous and artificial boom.
The Mayor of London has bought three ex-German Federal Reserve Police water cannon – without authority to deploy them.
The first new metal mine in Britain for 40 years will open next year in Devon following the approval of £130 million of investment.
