Time to talk about immigration
According to the most recent figures from the Office of National Statistics, the population of England and Wales rose by 706,881 in a year, to 61.8 million by June 2024.
Organise! Educate! Control!
When workers discuss the state Britain is in, the question that follows inevitably is what can be done about it? It’s a tough question, one not yet answered.
Broken promises on borders
19 September 2025
The latest data on immigration shows that Britain does not control its borders and that Labour has broken its promises.
Tube workers take responsibility
19 September 2025
London Underground workers have been on strike over pay and conditions, bringing travel on the tube to a halt for a week. They say TfL has ignored their concerns for too long.
Manchester bus drivers set to strike
19 September 2025
Bus drivers at three Manchester operators are taking coordinated strike action from 19 to 22 September. They have rejected low pay increases offered by the profitable companies as derisory.
Electricity prices: driven by dogma
28 August 2025
Electricity prices are high and liable to further increase. The regulator isn’t tackling the government policy behind this.
Save ceramics – the Potter’s Pledge
28 August 2025
The GMB trade union has launched a campaign to save what is left of the British ceramics industry, hit hard by rising energy costs. But it is a vital sector supplying other industries.
Scottish Library censorship
28 August 2025
A book, The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht, has been banned from an exhibition at the National Library of Scotland, despite oringinally being selected to be part of it.
Threat to allotments is real
28 August 2025
Planning changes have made it easier for councils to sell off allotments, prompting criticism. The threat is real, despite government assurances.
Bioethanol: largest plant closes
28 August 2025
The government’s trade deal with the US has led to the closure of Britain’s largest bioethanol plant on Humberside. Trade unions and companies in the industry have criticised the closure.
The future for water: as clear as muck
A new government-commissioned report into the water industry is good (in parts) at identifying glaring problems. But its proposals go nowhere near what is needed, and risk fragmenting the industry even further…
Is the tide turning on net zero?
After years of bluster and unrealistic charges, not to speak of soaring energy costs for consumers, influential voices are questioning the logic of the reckless obsession with the net zero dogma…
Welfare and work
Capitalists have never wanted to pay workers who through illness – or because there is no work for them – are unable to work. The priority, though, is not better benefits. It is work for all who can…
Another plan? The NHS needs a rebuild
Workers want shorter waiting lists for NHS treatment, and to be able to see a real doctor in a reasonable timeframe. That’s a long way off…
Britain in the red
Borrowing is on the rise, and debt interest is a big part of government expenditure…
Industry. It’s our life blood.
Our class and our country are bound up with industry, that is, the work we do to produce the goods that make a civilised society. Industry embodies our independence and our national unity…
Trade wars and the threat to jobs
‘Successive governments consistently avoided the question of self-sufficiency through industry…’
US provocation and war in Europe
Why have peace talks between Ukraine and Russia been so difficult ever since the invasion in February 2022? The answer: NATO…
Lindsey refinery set to close
Liquidators have taken over Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire, which is set to close.
Food: Meals factory victory
Workers at Wrexham’s Oscar Mayer ready meals factory are celebrating after concluding their long-running industrial dispute with the company...
1787: The Calton Weavers
In 1787 six striking weavers from the Calton area of Glasgow were killed and many more injured. The annual commemoration of their watershed struggle is building towards the 240th anniversary in 2027.
The first plan for nurses – demand employment!
14 August 2025
Newly qualified nurses this year don’t have jobs to go to due to a recruitment freeze. This is a crucial point in their careers and the NHS needs them. Action is needed!
NHS freezes out new graduates
14 August 2025
Despite staff shortages newly qualified medical professionals in all disciplines are finding it difficult to get jobs due to recruitment freezes. This wasteful situation has a direct impact on patient care in the NHS.
Hollowing out London: school closure
14 August 2025
A Workers reader writes to point out that the closure of primary schools is both a symptom of workers being priced out of London and something which will hinder its reversal.
Water Commission has no answer
13 August 2025
The water industry is a mess. A report commissioned by the government on regulating the industry doesn’t provide any answers.
Respect our bleeding skills say phlebotomists
13 August 2025
A group of healthcare workers in Gloucestershire are taking on their trust which refuses to pay them at the right grade. Strike action has been going on since April.
Cardiff bus fight for pay and conditions
13 August 2025
Cardiff bus workers, members of Unite union, are to vote on a new pay offer after being set for three weeks of continuous strike action. They are fighting against low pay and poor conditions.
Bus disputes in south east England
13 August 2025
Arriva bus workers in south east England are being balloted on strike action over a below-inflation pay offer. Stikes could begin in September, resulting in major disruption to bus services in the areas affected.
Spreading war, not peace
11 August 2025
The Labour government has spread its talk of war to the Pacific, against China in particular. This is a dangerous development.