No to NATO/EU war!
Can we be sure any longer the Ukraine war will stay in Ukraine? That’s the question warmongers – civilian and military – want us to fret about, talking about preparation for escalation…
Features
Features
The real reason for the energy price hikes
The government persists in pursuit of arbitrary net zero goals, raising the price of energy and risking shortages. We are all suffering the consequence…
Energy abundance – a radical rethink
A Workers reader writes about a thorough challenge to net zero orthodoxy – from a surprising source…
The British working class and its trade unions
For better or worse, there's nothing like British trade unions, set up by workers, not by employer, government or church. The working class created them to survive. But defence is not enough...
Food standards: don’t leave it up to Westminster
We all have to eat, every day. And the safety of what we put in our mouths is exceptionally important. So what – particularly after Brexit – is the government doing outsourcing standard-setting to Brussels?
The real university challenge: debt
Many of Britain’s universities are sliding deeper and deeper into debt. Yet, instead of looking for solid foundations, they are calling for yet more dependence on the volatile global market for international students…
The future for water: as clear as muck
A new government-commissioned report into the water industry is good (in parts) at identifying glaring problems. But its proposals go nowhere near what is needed, and risk fragmenting the industry even further…
Is the tide turning on net zero?
After years of bluster and unrealistic charges, not to speak of soaring energy costs for consumers, influential voices are questioning the logic of the reckless obsession with the net zero dogma…
Welfare and work
Capitalists have never wanted to pay workers who through illness – or because there is no work for them – are unable to work. The priority, though, is not better benefits. It is work for all who can…
Another plan? The NHS needs a rebuild
Workers want shorter waiting lists for NHS treatment, and to be able to see a real doctor in a reasonable timeframe. That’s a long way off…
Britain in the red
Borrowing is on the rise, and debt interest is a big part of government expenditure…
Industry. It’s our life blood.
Our class and our country are bound up with industry, that is, the work we do to produce the goods that make a civilised society. Industry embodies our independence and our national unity…
Trade wars and the threat to jobs
‘Successive governments consistently avoided the question of self-sufficiency through industry…’
Keir Starmer is endangering Britain
Keir Starmer and his government do not defend Britain. They do not act in our interests but cynically pretend that they do…
Cultural workers gear up for AI battles ahead
Artificial intelligence is touted as a means to boost economic growth. It is of course a great step forward and has great potential. But workers – especially in the creative industries will have to find ways to exercise control…
The remorseless rise of finance capital
Finance capital rules the roost here in Britain to the detriment of our economy. No wonder Britain’s leading business newspaper has long been the Financial Times, not the “Industrial Times”…
The task is to rebuild Britain
Politics is not parliament. It’s up to us. the working class, to take the initiative, take over our country, and set about reconstructing it in the interests of workers. That’s the message from May Day 2025…
A manifesto for the NHS
Skilled professionals in the NHS have a chance to take the lead. They must do so…
Industry: fundamental to Britain
Having failed to persuade the people that Britain can exist without industry, the government has been forced to make concessions. Even the sanctity of net zero is coming into question…
Building more houses is not the answer
In cities all over Britain councils are turning their gaze on strategies to build even more houses, and using up precious green belt land. The approach dominates thinking in London’s City Hall. But it won’t work…
The antidote to disunity – Britain united
Britain truly became united not because of an act of parliament or a monarch’s ambition. It became one with the rise of the working class and working class culture…
Rotherham: the impact of migration on one town
Workers looks behind the headlines to find out what is going on with immigration in one town: Rotherham.…
Class matters: workers and capitalism
Who is working class? What is the working class? Do these questions matter? Yes, they do…
Without food, there’s no health or security
A country that is not self-sufficient in food will always be vulnerable to attack – in peacetime by global producers of junk food, or in wartime by blockade and invasion…
Energy self-reliance, not net zero dogma
The drive to import energy in the name of net zero threatens Britain’s independence as a modern manufacturing economy…
Grenfell’s legacy must be effective fire regulation
Part Two of our investigation into the far-reaching consequences of the Grenfell Tower disaster. New laws were passed but much still needs to be done…
Capitalism cannot be regulated – only destroyed
In the last issue we looked at the background to how regulation operates. Here, we examine not just whether Britain is being held back by too much regulation, but also whether capitalist monopolies can ever be regulated.
Costs and delays – the impacts of Grenfell
Part One of our investigation into the far-reaching consequences of the Grenfell Tower disaster. Nearly eight years after the fire, residents across Britain are still suffering in unsafe buildings and the survivors wait for justice.
Cass: a materialist approach to healthcare
The Cass Review into the care of young people questioning their gender identity represents a triumph of a materialist, evidence-based approach over zealotry and dogma.