Campaigning on housing continues
4 May 2026
New legislation on renters’ rights won’t end the housing crisis across Britain. A demonstration last month in London called for much more to be done.
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Ten years on
June marks ten years since the referendum, the glorious referendum, which saw the British people vote to leave the European Union.
Britain needs no war
British workers cannot leave it to Keir Starmer and his government to decide on what our country does about war across the Middle East. Britain must stop interfering in other sovereign nations and get out of NATO.
Scotland: workers’ resistance a priority
Devolution does not help British workers. The answer is to wrest power for the working class, and not give it away to posturing politicians…
Social care is a class question
Governments are obsessed with the affordability of adult social care. But they never confront the matter so intimately linked with older people’s physical and mental decline – the decline of Britain…
Inflation: war on workers
War means that prices, and taxes, go up. It is both a cause of inflation and an excuse for government and employers to pass off a systemic element of capitalism as nothing to do with them…
North Sea energy for Britain!
Britain relies on oil and gas for around three-quarters of its energy – a level that has hardly changed in decades. We will be relying on oil and gas for the foreseeable future, as the Climate Change Committee says…
EU: what’s in a name?
The Labour government aims to tie Britain to the EU’s severe net zero targets, pushing up energy costs.
The fight for the Arctic: preparing for war
In the first of a two-part feature Workers looks at what’s going on in the Arctic, and the looming war over its natural resources…
The steel industry needs energy to survive
On 19 March the government announced its steel strategy, including import tariffs. But there are wider challenges to face to secure the vital industry, particularly the cost of energy…
Washing dollars for profit
A system created to serve the needs of tax dodgers has become an ideal vehicle for gangsters, fraudsters and terrorists of all stripes…
1926: The General Strike
One hundred years ago the General Strike took place in Britain. While marking the centenary, it’s vital to recognise what actually happened…