Why the movement of labour is not "free"
People smuggling, trafficking, organised gangs – what’s free about that?
Workers January/February 2017
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A spanner in the works of the EU war machine
One of the worst lies told in the referendum was that the EU is a force for peace. The opposite is true, and the vote to leave holds out the prospect of a reduction of the risk of war…
Another Brexit opportunity - the railways
Under the EU our railways have been fragmented, privatised and sold off to foreign – mainly state-owned – companies. With independence looming, what now needs to be done?
Worked to the bone
The failure to fight for wages has worked its way through to an ever-lengthening working day…
Points of profit
The points at which money can be made in the trafficking process...
The road to a new industrial revolution
Investment, skills, education, education for life, jobs for life, wealth creation for the people – a new industrial revolution but this time ours.
Remake industry!
Free of the EU, Britain must seize the chance of a lifetime to create a new industrial revolution…
Agriculture and fisheries can look to the future
For forty years we have documented the disastrous effects of EEC, later EU, membership on British agriculture and fisheries. Now, with an end to EU membership in sight, Britain can at last begin to put things right…
1960: Fidel Castro at the UN
The world only began to understand Castro after his speech to the UN General Assembly 21 months after the Cuban Revolution, which he led to victory…
Take control
Last year the people of Britain stood up. The sooner the government acts to start the process of leaving, the better.
Which side are you on?
The key question confronting Britain (and the world) is whether we allow global corporations and finance capital to destroy nations in their quest for universal dominance.
Economy: Brexit forecasts revised
The International Monetary Fund now accepts that its forecast of a post-Brexit vote financial crash has proved overly pessimistic.
Conservation: Natural Brexit
Wildlife and conservation charities are realising the opportunities created by leaving the EU.
Metrication: Bin the regulations!
Since decimalisation of the currency in 1970 there has been a continuous campaign by supporters of metrication, promoted by the EU, to enforce changes to weights, measurements and distances.
Fancy That - Brexit Bloomers: No. 2
More dire Remain predictions that have been confounded by reality.
Rattling sabres - but rustily
One of the glorified gunboats deployed to pursue a Russian aircraft carrier broke down while playing war games and had to be towed home.
Mitie quits home care
Specialist outsourcing company Mitie has decided home care isn't profitable any more and is leaving the domestic home care market.
Statement signals Brexit shift
Last year’s Brexit decision is starting to influence Britain’s economic direction, if Chancellor Philip Hammond's first Atumn Statement is anything to go by.
Marching for libraries
Some 3,000 public library workers, users and authors marched on 5 November from the British Library, London, to Trafalgar Square.
Fire: Big rise in deaths
The latest figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government show that 294 people died in fires in England during 2015.
Fidel Castro, 1926 - 2016
Fidel Castro, who died last Friday, represented the struggle for the independence of Cuba from US control, for independence for the Cuban nation and the Cuban working class.