The never-ending rise in the number of people migrating to Britain provides the clearest evidence that Brexit is being hollowed out from within, including by people who appeared to be in favour of it…
Before the Labour government under Tony Blair, immigration from the EU was substantial, but not overwhelming.
Burning wood to generate electricity is no solution for Britain’s tenuous energy supply – and claims it is “carbon neutral” are flawed…
Food shortages and rising food prices have hit Britain. It need not have been that way – governments have squandered the opportunities in front of them…
The working class and their trade unions know that capitalism isn’t working. At least not for us. But it seems to be doing a grand job for the capitalists…
London can either be a huge force for progress in an independent Britain, or a colossal hindrance instead. Which one it will be depends on everyone in the country, not just in the capital…
How can more Londoners be moved to think that they are part of Britain?
Government inaction has inflicted an uncertain future on Britain’s largest producer of silicon chips…
Despite all the other current problems, Scottish nationalists continue to pursue their aim of disuniting Britain. Yet in Scotland workers are more worried about the economy and the standard of living – worries shared across Britain…
Now in paperback, an account of taxation and government spending over the past three centuries casts an interesting light on the nation’s development…
Heightened class struggle in the early 1970s was neutered by a Labour government and trade union establishment working in tandem…
Another month, another prime minister. And yet underneath nothing has changed at all. British capitalism, the oldest in the world and arguably the most cunning, is out of ideas and out of time.
The TUC congress met in Brighton from 18 to 20 October. Much of the agenda was routine and predictable, but some unions are thinking honestly and hard about the future of their industries and of Britain.
Workers at Parker Meggitt found out in mid-October that around 200 jobs will go by the end of the year – only weeks after being taken over by a US rival…
Unite has called on the government to prioritise British jobs and industries when tendering for defence contracts.
Violence broke out in Leicester in September – the unwelcome result of Indian sub-continent politics coming to Britain in a city where immigrants have settled and lived for decades, for the most part peacefully.
Around 70 HGV drivers and shunters at Muller’s Stonehouse factory in Gloucestershire are to escalate their dispute...
Criminal barristers voted in October to accept an improved pay offer from the government...
Nearly 600 workers at the Port of Liverpool decided to walk out from 24 October to 7 November over pay and job security.
On 13 September, the European Parliament voted to keep the definition of woody biomass as renewable energy.
The rail disputes are now nearly six months old, and railway workers and their unions – led by RMT – are now resigned to a long-drawn-out campaign...
