Boom in factory output
11 January 2018
Manufacturing is growing more quickly than at any time in the past seven years, official figures suggest.
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Scarlet fever makes a comeback
6 January 2018
The rise in the number of cases of scarlet fever shows no sign of tailing off significantly, with a record 544 cases recorded in England in the week before Christmas.
Diary of a nobody
With Britain’s independence movement facing new challenges, a fresh book looks how to fight, and win…
Revolution: which side are you on?
A century after the Bolshevik Revolution ushered in workers’ power, the lessons continue to reverberate around the world…
The aims of Soviet socialism
Only a revolution genuinely committed to the interests of the people, to obliterating poverty and hardship would commit to such a course.
A long way from a believable future for rail
The government talks about having a strategy, but the reality is that overambitious forecasts are likely to leave services cut, and taxpayers and passengers picking up the bill…
No pay, no productivity
Stop all this talk about higher productivity being the route to higher pay. In fact, the reverse is true: only when pay rates rise will capitalists be forced to invest…
Guards battle still raging [shorter]
Disputes about staffing and pay are sweeping through the rail industry…
Grenfell: no control, no accountability
Tenants at Grenfell Tower could not have done more to attract attention to the risk of fire. But they were up against more than penny-pinching profiteers – a whole system had been designed to take control away from them…
PFIs – lucrative and lethal
Remember Private Finance Initiatives? These 30-year lease-back deals to bring public money into private hands are now notorious as very bad value for money.
On the march towards a European army
The current president of the European Commission wants it. So did his predecessors. And now the whole EU is taking steps towards the creation of a unified European military, along with unified defence research…
Brussels eyes procurement
The EU wants a single military procurement policy, coordinated by a newly empowered European Defence Agency.