Break clean for fishing
With a clear majority, the government must retake full control of Britain’s coastal waters…
Workers January/February 2020
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Destroyed: a travel company founded in 1841
The collapse of Thomas Cook left hundreds of thousands of travellers in the lurch, and put 9,000 staff out of work. Yet it should never have been allowed to happen…
The dark hand of the EU
The University and College Union (UCU) has rightly refused to agree to huge increases in the staff pensions contributions to the main universities pension fund, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS).
Putting profit above staff and students
While university staff are forced to take industrial action to protect their wages and conditions, universities are piling up surpluses – and paying big salaries to their top administrators. What’s going on?
The toxic legacy of the Private Finance Initiative
Go to any website on personal debt and the advice is “It can be tough to face up to your financial situation, but it’s an important first step.” Not so with politicians and PFI debt…
The weakness at the heart of the EU
The referendum vote in 2016 continues to dominate politics not just in Britain but also in Brussels. The EU’s expansionist plans have been brought to a juddering halt. Time, then, to step up the pressure……
70 years of Nato aggression
NATO has marked its 70th anniversary in London. But for anyone who cares about peace, there was nothing to celebrate. Quite the reverse…
A 'more perfect' union?
The ambitions of the eurocrats couldn’t be clearer. They want to move as swiftly as possible to a unified European state…
Tax Avoidance - GMB's Amazon protest
Amazon’s London HQ in Shoreditch was the target of a demonstration on Monday 2 December organised by GMB.
Separatism's failure
Despite the increase in their number of MPs, the Scottish National Party still does not command the support needed to win the second Scottish independence referendum it craves.
The battle is only just beginning
All the schemes, the arrogance, the contempt for democracy of the diehard Remain campaigners, have come to nothing, squashed by the vote of the people – as happened in 2016.
Guards' action continues
Transport union RMT’s campaign to keep guards on trains continues to grind on, with another employer capitulating in the face of determined and resolute industrial action.
More worries over free schools
Fresh concerns are being expressed over the government’s free schools programme. To date, 27 free schools have been forced to close or change management, according to a new analysis.
Media: Protecting standards
With journalistic standards under attack , a Bristol newspaper took a stand in December against attacks on the integrity of one of its reporters.
Steel: Plant mothballed
Unions at the shut Orb steelworks in Newport, Wales, have persuaded Tata that there is a stronger case for new companies to take over if the plant is properly maintained over the coming period.
An independent Britain - it's only rational
Not only is it impossible for the EU to mimic the socialist processes needed to develop a country, it is designed precisely to prevent that.
No sovereignty without defence
Just five days after the referendum – with furious denials from the Remain campaign that the EU was planning a European army – the EU announced its new Global Strategy and began to create new military structures.
Hospital staff stop employment transfer bid
Unison, GMB and Unite members have stopped plans by a major acute NHS hospital in Berkshire and Surrey to transfer more than a thousand of its staff out of NHS employment.
Nursing shortages: the answer lies closer to home
Instead of draining other countries of their trained nurses, we should be taking steps to increase the number here who qualify – and the number who stay in the profession.