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…
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…
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…
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…
At the University of Glasgow the university and the union have reached a joint agreement about coping with the new situation.
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…
In a landmark book written before the coronavirus crisis, food policy expert Tim Lang argues the importance of food security…
As the 19th century dawned, trade unions were made illegal, prices rose, wages fell. Skilled workers led the fightback…
Throughout Britain people are working out for themselves what they can do in the fight against Covid-19…
The World Health Organization has certified Nigeria and Cameroon free of polio, a crippling disease that usually affects children under five
23 June marked four long years since the people of Britain voted to leave the European Union
Again we see divergent policies driving a wedge between Scotland and the rest of Britain.
Unions representing nurses, midwives and allied healthcare professionals are calling on the government to improve support during their training.
A Greenpeace investigation into supertrawler fishing in protected UK waters has reported that they doubled their activity last year.
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 has now gone for two months without burning coal. But the figures hide the full truth about today’s carbon-neutral energy.
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.
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.
The European Commission is making a concerted power grab to give itself the right to intervene in member states’ health systems.
