Call that a campaign?
Blink and you would have missed it. The TUC’s campaign on public sector pay kicked off on 17 October with a desultory lobby of parliament.
Workers November/December 2017
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‘Free movement’?
Free movement of labour from inside and outside the EU has seen employers taking on staff at below even the minimum wage.
Unions plan a future for British shipping
Trade unions involved in British shipping have set their minds to exploiting the opportunities that will open up when we leave the EU. In so doing, they are setting an example to the whole trade union movement…
1917: a world shaking
The Russian October Revolution overthrew the rule of exploiters for the first time in history…
They call it a housing market, but it’s just chaos
After Brexit, we must seize the opportunity to roll back privatisation, the market, and the free movement of labour and capital to rethink Britain’s housing…
Shh...don’t mention the class struggle
Suddenly, politicians seem to be wanting to talk about work. Low wage work, minimum wage work, gig work, any kind of work. Just as long as there’s no contradiction between employers and workers…
EU: making pain in Spain
The EU is standing to one side in the crisis over Catalonia. But the situation is also of its own making…
How market madness is throttling broadband
Britain could have led the world in fibre broadband. Instead, hostility to nationalised industries and blind faith in the market shut development down – and are still holding back the country’s productive forces…
Manufacturing future for North
The vote to leave the EU has induced a frenzy of pessimistic media forecasts about the future of investment and productive activity in Britain.
Migration - The truth is out
Data from the Office for National Statistics published in October show the number of Romanians and Bulgarians resident in Britain soared by 79 per cent in the previous two years.
Poverty worst in London
London has the severest poverty in Britain, a new study shows.
Record numbers in care
Official data show 72,000 children were in care in England at the end of March, up 3 per cent on the previous year.
How crashes happen
There’s only one way to avoid financial crashes: break the power of finance capitalism…
No deal is what we want
The spectacle of a British prime minister scuttling back and forth to Brussels displaying a desperate desire for a Brexit deal with the EU, is a betrayal of the 2016 referendum vote. We don’t want a deal, we want out.
Pay strike stops buses in North West
Over 2000 Unite bus workers in 11 depots took strike action on Thursday 19 October over pay, paralysing local bus networks in the North West.
Secular Britain
A survey shows the decline in religious belief in Britain. Yet religious groups have a disproportionate influence over our education system and government.
New tech training centre to open in Midlands
In-Comm Training has joined forces with Hyfore to develop an Advanced Manufacturing Technology Centre next door to its current site in Aldridge in the West Midlands.
The psychological toll of Ukraine's war
EU-backed Ukrainian armed forces fire on the civilian population of the Donbass on a daily basis. None of this gets reported in the British media.