The government says it is going to completely reform the special educational needs and disabilities system. Professionals and parents are looking on with scepticism…
Debt hangs over British workers, and it’s growing – forcing millions of workers to depend for their existence on finance capitalism…
It is evident to all workers, and many capitalists, that Britain is experiencing a worsening decline in the economy, unable to provide the jobs, goods and services people need. But that observation on its own will not lead to change…
Britain is being covered with vast data centres. Workers are going to face even bigger utility bills as a result. And a great deal of the power they consume is used keeping track of the population…
Polling shows overwhelming support in Scotland for developing our own oil and gas resources. Politicians in Holyrood and Westminster from a wide range of parties think they know better…
An Oxford University researcher looks at what people think is happening with climate change, and what actually is happening. The results are instructive…
With chancellor Rachel Reeves looking around for funds to prepare for war, it’s instructive to see how the Nazis approached the problem…
26 February 2026
The pay dispute at the British Library has ended after strike action. PCS union members have accepted a significantly enhanced pay offer, although it fell short of their claim.
The National Education Union is running a ballot of its members in schools in England to test their response to the government’s offer of an unfunded 6.5 per cent pay increase over three years.
As council taxpayers across the country await the expected rises in their council tax bills, seven local authorities have been granted special permission to demand a rise nearly double the usual 4.99 per cent limit.
Members of the Prospect trade union working at the London Museum are in dispute over their pay.
Unemployment among people aged 16-24 rose to 16.1 per cent at the end of 2025 – the highest for over a decade.
23 February 2026
London Tube cleaners are fighting against outsourcing and deterioration in their pay and working conditions. Their union, RMT, is campaigning for an end to all TfL outsourcing.
23 February 2026
The reality behind the uncontrolled drive for solar and wind energy is the destruction of productive farmland and damaging valuable moors. And consumer bills will rise to pay for this.
23 February 2026
Despite earlier promises, it looks like the Labour government no longer plans to double the number of medical school places by 2032.
23 February 2026
AI is touted as the future. But despite technological advance, it carries risks and is showing features of yet another capitalist investment bubble.
23 February 2026
Landlords could be forced to install either a heat pump or solar panels under Miliband’s Warm Homes Plan. Both professionals and unions have criticised the move as unrealistic.
23 February 2026
The government plans energy links with other countries linked to an big increase in offshore wind electricity generation. The claimed benefits may not materialise.
28 January 2026
A coroner has called for government action after the death of a baby boy. Non-therapeutic male circumcision is unregulated in Britain – and earlier deaths produced no changes.
26 January 2026
President Donald Trump has created a “Board of Peace”. The way things are going, it looks more like an attempt to maintain US hegemony over international affairs and to bypass the United Nations.
26 January 2026
Two recent cases highlight continuing harassment and discrimination faced by nurses who refuse to accept the imposition of males claiming to be female.
26 January 2026
The Labour government cunningly tries to disguise its plan to reverse Brexit is as dynamic realignment with the EU. British workers should not be fooled.
23 January 2026
The government promises improvements to rail services in the north of England. But the plans lack detail and won’t produce the necessary results for years – or decades.
20 January 2026
Health care assistants are in grading disputes across the country. Cash-strapped NHS trusts are not always keen to settle, leading to some strikes.
16 January 2026
University workers continue to fight in defence of jobs, pensions and conditions in both further and higher education. Many separate disputes are running across the country, with progress in some places.
16 January 2026
A Birmingham hospital trust has been forced to scrap a poorly regulated international fellowship programme. The scheme recruited doctors from Pakistan, apparently so they could return there after training, but most did not.
Ten years after the announcement of a referendum on EU membership, Workers looks back at the struggle…which is not over.
7 January 2026
Broadcaster Alice Roberts presents a view of the interaction between politics and religion in the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity. It also provides an interesting perspective on the subsequent history of Europe up to the present day.
7 January 2026
US military action against Venezuela should be universally condemned as a violation of sovereignty. This highlights once again the role of Britain in NATO, and the presence of US bases here. They pose a threat to our sovereignty.
Obsession with the appalling events in Palestine is to the detriment of workers here in Britain.
