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Unity Not Devolution

Zoom discussion meeting
Tuesday 15 September 2026 19:00
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The new prime minister says he aims to devolve more power to regions. He also wants Britain to rejoin the EU.

Devolution in whatever guise aims to break up Britain, letting multinational corporations operate more freely – as would membership of the EU.

Workers need a united independent Britain coupled with industrial self-reliance if we are to provide for our needs. How do workers turn the government away from its course of breaking up Britain?

Email info@cpbml.org.uk if you would like to participate in the discussion – all welcome!

British Workers: Strength in Unity

Zoom discussion meeting
Tuesday 8 April 2025 19:00

Unity between workers is our main strength – we have a common class interest and the ability to make progress when we act together.

But everywhere that unity is under threat. At work, by employers who constantly exploit weakness and lack of cohesion. And across Britain, by a government and ruling class who want to break Britain up into regions and tie us to the USA or again to the EU.

Come and discuss. Email info@cpbml.org.uk for an invitation.

Devolution dividing Britain

25 January 2023

News

The government’s drive to divide Britain is gathering pace with a devolution deal for the North East of England, and the second round of “levelling up” funding for councils across the country.

Starmer’s speech – the opposite of taking control

12 January 2023

Editorial

The Labour Party has made its pitch to win the next general election, due in two years’ time at the latest – by stealing the Conservative party’s slogan for the 2016 referendum and 2019 election, Take Back Control, and reinterpreting it.

Senedd to increase in size?

20 May 2021

News

Labour in Wales did not mention it in its manifesto, but now it wants to spend millions on creating yet more seats in the Senedd assembly – at public cost but without public benefit.

For a united Britain

16 April 2021

Book Review

This book makes the case for continued and renewed union as better both for Scots and for their fellow British citizens.

Devolution gathering pace

7 August 2020

News

Last week devolution in South Yorkshire became law, and attempts to devolve spending plans for the nation’s capital to the mayor are now being mooted. 

UNITY NOT DEVOLUTION

We have republished this pamphlet from 1977. It has stood the test of time as an analysis of devolution and its threat to the future of the British working class.

For an undivided Britain

Workers May/June 2017
Feature

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…

Bidding to devolve

Workers November/December 2015
Feature

Separately, all these would-be devolved authorities published proposals before chancellor Osborne’s September deadline, aimed at joining up between 4 and 19 local authorities. Note the imperial ambitions of “Greater” Essex and Yorkshire.

The DevoManc debacle

Workers May/June 2015
Feature

There’s been very little support for splitting up England whenever it has been put to the vote. Two years ago the people of Manchester voted not to have an elected mayor. They could not see why they needed yet another politician.

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