Social care – no action, no surprise
17 November 2023
There is disappointment, but no surprise in the government’s continuing failure to act on social care.
17 November 2023
There is disappointment, but no surprise in the government’s continuing failure to act on social care.
17 November 2023
A book about England in the 17th century puts the people of the country as the power that shaped events – just as true today.
13 November 2023
Determined action by RMT rail union members has forced the government to make a new offer through the train operating companies to settle their long-running pay and conditions dispute.
13 November 2023
Scottish Water workers are striking against regrading and lower pay. Yet the publicly-owned company makes large payments to executives and like others in the industry presides over increased sewage pollution.
13 November 2023
Water companies continue to pump raw sewage into rivers and the sea despite strong campaigning. A new report reveals the extent of pollution by Thames Water.
7 November 2023
British Steel wants to close down the blast furnaces at its Scunthorpe plant. This threatens the jobs of 2,000 skilled workers and the future of the industry.
7 November 2023
Firefighters have launched a manifesto to highlight risks of fire and flood and the impacts of service cuts.
6 November 2023
The coronavirus pandemic affected the level of school attendances across Britain and they have not recovered since. This is brought out in a new report just published.
2 November 2023
The government has scrapped plans to close rail ticket offices in the face of overwhelming opposition from rail workers and passengers – a victory for people power.
25 October 2023
In 1217 the Charter of the Forest established rights of access to royal forests. It’s still of interest, showing how people can exercise power.
Global capitalism warps development across the world. Countries and peoples everywhere become the playthings of billionaires and finance capitalists.
All the bluster about illegal immigration – which continues unabated – is designed to obscure the government’s determination to raise migration levels even further…
Britain has to continue to modernise, and that means new infrastructure. That is expensive. But the alternative is to allow capitalism’s decline to take the working class with it…
Manchester is an example of a supposedly booming city where housing problems are acute…
Can Britain afford not to transform social care? It’s up to workers everywhere to demand change and not be fobbed off with more delay…
The public inquiry set up soon after the Grenfell Tower Fire completed its hearings last November and is expected to publish its final report in 2024. There’s much to learn already…
The British government is clear: it wants the war in Ukraine to go on and on, and it will seek to sabotage anything and anyone that works for peace…
Reluctant to invest in infrastructure, successive governments have failed to keep in step with public support for nuclear – and failed, too, to provide the clean electricity that nuclear can deliver…
To raise the question of taking control runs counter to the world of politicians’ competing claims to act on our behalf…
Unite the union has taken its fight to end union busting to the doorstep of the French company Bouygues, whose offices are based in Paris
The government has been borrowing at a huge rate – something that tends not to be reported in general news, appearing rather in the relative backwaters of newspaper business sections.
21 October 2023
A campaign by the people of Wanstead appears to have secured the future of their youth centre, threatened with closure by the council.
21 October 2023
The Swiss-owned engineering company Bruderer, a manufacturer of high-speed presses, has announced investment in a new UK headquarters in Telford, Shropshire.
20 October 2023
An FOI request from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has revealed the true extent of waiting times in Welsh Accident and Emergency departments.
20 October 2023
Semiconductor chip technology is essential to modern industrial production, and a British firm's designs lead the world, but processors are becoming pawns in a US-China trade war.
19 October 2023
RMT denounces sale of Arriva bus and train operations by the German state railway to US private equity.
13 October 2023
Events in Israel and Gaza have appalled workers everywhere. Workers should demand an end to external interference, opposing both terrorism and reprisals.
2 October 2023
The government is planning further cuts to the HS2 rail project. This sabotage puts engineering jobs at risk as well as undermining the transport benefits.
2 October 2023
The British government threatens to escalate Britain’s involvement in the war in Ukraine. This is not in the interests of British workers.
28 September 2023
The government’s approach to future energy supply depends heavily on wind power, dedicated as it is to net zero aims. But it’s as much off course with wind as it is with nuclear energy.