22 May 2017
The Durham Miners Gala started life as a celebration of mining communities but is now a celebration of trade unionism and working class values. This year’s Gala has much to celebrate.
Do British workers really not want to work in the NHS? No, they want to, but they struggle first to find the money to train, then to live on the wages. And have been reluctant to fight for pay…
While the online shopping giants get spectacularly rich, the workers who deliver to your home face zero hours contracts and long hours for minimal pay. Workers has been investigating the hidden world of the couriers…
Building the new Britain means building new railways, making the equipment here in Britain, and running the rail network in the way we decide, for the benefit of the people.
Across large parts of Britain houses and flats are not even being built to be homes – just investments…
Internal devolution divides the people of Britain. Like membership of the European Union it will poison our future unless we act. The current undemocratic engineering going on in Manchester shows why it needs to be fought…
Self-employment was a nice wheeze to falsify the real state of full-time employment. But it’s spiralled out of control and created a £3.5+ billion black hole in Treasury planning. But it’s workers who suffer the most…
The era of taking instructions from the EU is over. With the government reversing decades of free market ideology and creating an industrial strategy, unions need to radically recalibrate their own thinking…
The EU almost snuffed out Britain’s fishing fleets. Now the industry is looking at a huge opportunity…
The SNP and the Yes campaign supporters have been the cheerleaders for EU membership and the concept of “Scotland in the EU”. Yet working class unity across Britain is essential to our future…
Britain’s railways have become a battleground as companies bent on profit look to cut corners…
The prison population is soaring. Meanwhile, conditions of work suffer - and more prisoners than ever are commiting suicide and self-harming. But never mind, there's profit to be made...
When the EU invented the concept of the “single market”, it was playing fast and loose with language. It’s not so much a market, more a mechanism for enforcing EU control over national economies and national life…
People smuggling, trafficking, organised gangs – what’s free about that?
One of the worst lies told in the referendum was that the EU is a force for peace. The opposite is true, and the vote to leave holds out the prospect of a reduction of the risk of war…
Under the EU our railways have been fragmented, privatised and sold off to foreign – mainly state-owned – companies. With independence looming, what now needs to be done?
The failure to fight for wages has worked its way through to an ever-lengthening working day…
Free of the EU, Britain must seize the chance of a lifetime to create a new industrial revolution…
For forty years we have documented the disastrous effects of EEC, later EU, membership on British agriculture and fisheries. Now, with an end to EU membership in sight, Britain can at last begin to put things right…
With Brexit we can start to repair the damage caused by fees, the European Union and devolution…
Workers cannot let the momentum created by the referendum result subside. The issue cannot be left to the politicians. We must enforce our will: get on, get out!
The opportunity of Brexit has to be about how we determine a strategy for power generation which will serve the nation for at least the next 100 years…
We cannot care for people without planning, and we should stop robbing other nations of skilled workers…
In dispute for over a year, junior hospital doctors have had to draw back from their planned series of five-day strikes against an unsafe contract. But it’s a protracted struggle…
Asked to rule about footballers’ freedom to transfer, the EU went further and removed restrictions on EU players in national clubs. England haven’t won a tournament since…
The referendum result continues to highlight the urgent need for unions to take responsibility for an independent Britain.
Teaching staff in Britain’s universities are ramping up their fight for pay. With the autumn term beginning, they could be joined by administrative staff.
If teacher unions are to protect and improve members’ pay and conditions of work, then tactics and strategy must be reconsidered and revamped.
The struggle for safety and jobs on Britain’s railways is intensifying as the government seeks to take on the unions.
