The Bolsheviks called for “Peace, Land and Bread” in 1917 at a time of crisis and transition in Russia. They aimed to unite a country weary of a war for rulers they despised and for aims they did not share.
Communists aim to unite workers, those who live by selling their labour power.
What can workers do to stop the growing threat of war? Perhaps the first question we to ask is: do they want to stop it?
It is a precious thing when workers are able to talk to one another – and listen to the ideas of others. Nowhere is this discussion more needed than over the movement of labour across borders…
The ongoing failure of regulation in the water industry poses a fundamental question about the governance and accountability of industries and utilities in Britain: how, and in whose interest, are they regulated?
Many of our prisons are at breaking point. This has not happened overnight but is the result of a cocktail of circumstances including the actions and inactions of successive governments…
The prison population in England and Wales has doubled over the last 30 years. It now stands at over 86,000: Britain has the highest incarceration rate of any Western European country.
The water industry is in crisis, like the rest of capitalism. Water quality targets are missed, companies are heavily in debt, infrastructure needs investment. But profits and dividends are up...
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…
It’s getting harder and harder to build a family in Britain – and in particular to start one before your thirties. High house prices and low wages mean many are forced to wait longer than they want…
When women’s rights in Scotland were sacrificed in the name of “progress”, Scottish women decided to fight back. A new book tells their story…
This year marks the bicentenary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. It will rightly be celebrated with events throughout the year…
Hundreds of oil workers from the threatened Grangemouth refinery, delegations from other refineries around the country, and their supporters, marched on Holyrood in Edinburgh on 28 November.
The campaign against the return of US nuclear weapons to British soil after a 15-year absence is gathering pace.
On 3 November, over 15,000 protesters gathered in central London for the National March for Clean Water. There were simultaneous demonstrations in Glasgow and Belfast.
In mid-December the government announced that the review bodies for public sector workers are awarding rises of 2.8 per cent for 2025.
Rolls-Royce engineering workers have finally settled their pay fight in a multi-year agreement.
The Labour government proposes to return most of Britain’s passenger rail services to public ownership. This will not of itself bring about changes and improvement to those services
