The defeat of separatism in the referendum has spurred some regeneration in Scottish shipyards. But the challenge remains: how to rebuild a vital industry laid waste by decades of contraction…
The local government workers’ pay “dispute” is in now in period of consultation, set to end on 12 November – and the latest stage of an increasingly bad farce.
Steel workers in Britain once again find their jobs threatened after Tata Steel announced plans to sell its Long Products Division.
The Scottish referendum stimulated local authorities in England to look to their own version of fragmentation…
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By the end of the next parliament the NHS could become a thing of the past, regardless of who is elected. Only workers can save it…
Staff at the National Gallery in London held a 24-hour strike on 15 October, the opening day of the blockbuster Rembrandt exhibition.
An international feast of property speculators visited London for the first time in October – networking, partying, and carving up Britain’s assets.
Thatcher did not start the roll back of postwar nationalisation. Capitalism’s unease at state control of the British economy surfaced as early as 1953…
19 October 2014
The so-called “pro-democracy” demonstrators seeking to occupy central areas of Hong Kong are for the return of Hong Kong as an independent capitalist statelet, severed from mainland China.
17 October 2014
Chancellor Osborne told the Tory conference in Birmingham he will freeze working-age benefits re-elected. The consequences might – and should – be a rise in trade union organisation.
17 October 2014
On 9 October the European Union released the text of its “negotiating mandate” for the TTIP – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership treaty that it is negotiating with the European Union. Perhaps inadvertently, it includes one telling admission.
