We need a discussion, not a postmortem
Covid-19 has revealed the evil effects of the criminal fragmentation of Britain’s health and social care. The so-called internal market has failed. Workers must ensure that we never again face such a calamity…
Workers July/August 2020
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How about a real industrial strategy?
A union plan called Manufacturing Matters has been launched. With Covid-19 and Brexit, we not only desperately need a plan for a manufacturing-based recovery – we also have the opportunity to implement it…
Transport firms slash jobs under Covid-19 cover
The Covid-19 crisis has presented both opportunity and cover for the owners of transport operators to attack jobs, pay, and conditions of well organised British workers at a time when they are vulnerable…
A sustainable future for higher education
No wonder universities are in a financial mess. Wedded to a business model that relied on speculative investment to bring in increasing numbers of foreign students, they are going to have to re-focus on Britain to survive…
Looking forward
At the University of Glasgow the university and the union have reached a joint agreement about coping with the new situation.
Separatists’ fear of the ballot box grows
Unable to achieve its aims through democratic means, the SNP is edging towards a set of manoeuvres that would see Scotland leaving Britain by stealth…
Food - we need a long-term plan
In a landmark book written before the coronavirus crisis, food policy expert Tim Lang argues the importance of food security…
C19th London: skill and class
As the 19th century dawned, trade unions were made illegal, prices rose, wages fell. Skilled workers led the fightback…
Fighting Covid-19
Throughout Britain people are working out for themselves what they can do in the fight against Covid-19…
Epidemics - Africa now polio-free
The World Health Organization has certified Nigeria and Cameroon free of polio, a crippling disease that usually affects children under five
Four years on - enough is enough
23 June marked four long years since the people of Britain voted to leave the European Union
Holyrood blocks rail renewal
Again we see divergent policies driving a wedge between Scotland and the rest of Britain.
Student nurses - call to scrap tuition fees
Unions representing nurses, midwives and allied healthcare professionals are calling on the government to improve support during their training.
Foreign supertrawlers on the rise in UK waters
A Greenpeace investigation into supertrawler fishing in protected UK waters has reported that they doubled their activity last year.
United we stand
A film of the police killing a black man, George Floyd, in the US city of Minneapolis has provoked a huge response of anger and revulsion across the world.
Britain’s coal-free energy not as green as it looks
Britain has now gone for two months without burning coal. But the figures hide the full truth about today’s carbon-neutral energy.
Message to Johnson: Hong Kong is no longer a colony
Boris Johnson has pledged to give three million Hong Kong residents British citizenship – even though Britain quit the former colony more than two decades ago.
Time to clean up the monetary mess
The Covid-19 crisis has made it even more essential to get to grips with capitalism’s monetary mess. Quite simply, Britain’s whole business model is wrong.
Brussels bids to take charge of health services
The European Commission is making a concerted power grab to give itself the right to intervene in member states’ health systems.