Key Fife chemical plant closing
27 November 2025
Another key chemical plant is closing in Scotland with the loss of jobs and further threatening Britain’s industries.
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University actions continue
27 November 2025
UCU members in universities across Britain are fighting the imposition of job cuts and worse conditions with some successes in forcing talks and suspension of compulsory redundancies.
Bus strike in Wales
27 November 2025
One bus operator in South Wales is holding out against paying decent wages. Its drivers are going out on strike to change that.
An unhealthy obsession
The media in Britain seem obsessed by the politics and political thought of the USA, a trend shared by too many. It’s an unhealthy obsession and a deliberate distraction from our pressing needs.
Tax and war: workers have a choice
Taxes will rise in the Budget on 26 November – what’s the excuse? Tories, Reform, Brexit, lazy workers, low productivity. Never the EU, never devolution, never net zero policy, never lack of investment, never the debt to financial markets and interest paid. Never capitalism.
No to NATO/EU war!
Can we be sure any longer the Ukraine war will stay in Ukraine? That’s the question warmongers – civilian and military – want us to fret about, talking about preparation for escalation…
The real reason for the energy price hikes
The government persists in pursuit of arbitrary net zero goals, raising the price of energy and risking shortages. We are all suffering the consequence…
Energy abundance – a radical rethink
A Workers reader writes about a thorough challenge to net zero orthodoxy – from a surprising source…
The British working class and its trade unions
For better or worse, there's nothing like British trade unions, set up by workers, not by employer, government or church. The working class created them to survive. But defence is not enough...
Food standards: don’t leave it up to Westminster
We all have to eat, every day. And the safety of what we put in our mouths is exceptionally important. So what – particularly after Brexit – is the government doing outsourcing standard-setting to Brussels?
Precision breeding
A big question hovering over the planned Sanitary and Phytosanitary Strategy is what’s going to happen with so-called precision breeding...