The transition: stay alert, stay ready
We want to get Brexit done. But we’ve just had a 42-month tutorial in why we not to leave things to the establishment. What do we need to be vigilant about?
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Agriculture: the great opportunity
While the EU is desperately trying to find the money to prop up its ailing and corrupt Common Agricultural Policy, Britain can plan for a productive future…
Unions call for ‘Jones Act’ to save jobs and industry
Britain is an island nation, but its shipping is open to any country in the EU. British ships sail under foreign flags, employing seafarers at below the UK minimum wage. Time to change all that…
The truth about quotas
British fishermen have reacted angrily to attempts to slur them by saying they sold off fishing rights…
Why Britain needs HS2 – and needs it urgently
HS2 or High Speed 2, a new railway from London to Birmingham and then on to the north, has finally got the green signal from the Johnson government…
The environment: what should workers do?
In fighting man-made climate change and defending the environment, the solution does not lie with global capitalism – which created the problems. Nor with the EU, which defends capital. Workers must do it themselves…
Break clean for fishing
With a clear majority, the government must retake full control of Britain’s coastal waters…
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…
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……
Blackouts ahead as energy policy fails
Yes, it’s possible to produce energy without using nuclear power or fossil fuels. But at the moment the price tag for that will be a reversion to pre-industrial levels of production and consumption. No central heating, anyone?
'Independence'-obsessed SNP fails in its day job
Beset by failure in running Scotland, at the SNP party conference in October leader Nicola Sturgeon was forced to bring forward her plan to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence in 2020…
Waiting for a good bus service?
The chaos in bus services looks set to continue with the government rejecting key recommendations in a detailed Transport Committee report. ‘Regulated competition’ – the EU’s old refrain – is still being imposed…
Every empire needs an army – especially the EU
Brexit is about far more than trade and who makes our laws. It is also about who we owe loyalty to, who controls our defence and to whom our military owe allegiance. Inside the EU, that allegiance is above all to the EU…
Next steps on the road to independence
Despite the chaos in Parliament, fundamentally nothing has changed. We still haven’t left, and the opposition has become ever more hysterical – and coldly calculating…
Independence and trade
What’s so good about free trade agreements? They make the rich richer, workers poorer, and they rob countries of the ability to plan…
How the EU attacks the right to strike
In the last issue, we looked at how workers pay the price of the European Union. In this article, we focus on how the EU has restricted unions’ ability to defend wages and conditions…
Further education: a vital area for growth
With a new prime minister saying we will leave the EU by 31 October at the latest, those who work in further education must seize the opportunity to say what is needed – and to demand it happens…
The big opportunity for homes fit for workers
The need for truly affordable housing is universally acknowledged, yet it is not delivered. Brexit, implemented with control over the economy and migration, will allow Britain to plan properly to house its people…
The failure of privatised water
If capitalism could charge for the air we breathe, we’d be paying through the nose for it. And why not? They’ve already managed it with water…
No flag of ours
The seized Stena Impero is owned by a Swedish company with no British crew. So why the British flag?
Put professional librarians back in charge
Our libraries and librarians could contribute considerably to building an independent Britain. Are they up to the task?
May's agreement: four reasons for No Deal
Yes, the backstop matters. But the Withdrawal Agreement and its accompanying Political Declaration have the surrender of sovereignty built into every aspect…
The costly failure of privatised water
30 July 2019
With hosepipe bans and water restrictions being imposed once again, calls for nationalisation of water are growing.
Workers pay the price of the European Union
It’s become a mantra, endlessly repeated by Remainer unions: “Workers must not pay the price of Brexit.” What price would that be? And how about acknowledging the price of staying in the EU?
How privatisation is pushing rail to the brink
As most of the rail unions know, the future of their industry is intimately bound up with Brexit. Only independence from the EU can provide the freedom to run our railways in the national interest…
Brexit wreckers thwarted in Scotland
The SNP’s minority administration in Edinburgh is conspiring in the attempt to foil Brexit and the struggle to achieve sovereignty and independence for the whole of Britain. But it’s not doing well…
Learning how to organise again
Parliament’s failure to act on our vote to leave the EU has sparked democratic activity and debate across the country…
What does Britain need for independence?
The genie of independence is out of the bottle, and the fight has already started. Time, then, to consider what Britain needs to achieve that aim…