Sound advice
20 March 2020
Policy makers are taking full account of a paper from the Imperial College COVID-19 Response team published on 16 March. They are right to do so.
Panic buying? Beware the panic selling
20 March 2020
The stock market is in freefall and shares are collapsing in value. Havoc is being created – fortunes are being made – by financiers selling Britain short.
Government stalls urgent action on air passenger duty
12 March 2020
Airline pilots trade union BALPA reacted with dismay to the budget announcement of increases in airline passenger duty. It had been calling for a six-month suspension.
Poll finds support for public services
11 March 2020
A new poll conducted by Survation has found that voters believe that the privatisation of public services as increased regional inequality and harmed “left behind” parts of the country.
Chinese set to seal British Steel takeover
5 March 2020
Chinese firm Jingye Group has confirmed plans take over British Steel at a price of £70 million, and to invest more than £1 billion in the company, which collapsed in May last year.
RMT ballot brings tube strike closer
2 March 2020
Widespread industrial action on the tube has moved a step closer as transport union RMT prepares to ballot its members on strikes over pay and hours.
Stop this anti-protection racket
The government has started consulting over what its new “Global Tariff Policy” should be.
If a job's worth doing...
Leaving the EU is some job, and like any job, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And we intend to do it wholeheartedly.
The transition: stay alert, stay ready
We want to get Brexit done. But we’ve just had a 42-month tutorial in why we not to leave things to the establishment. What do we need to be vigilant about?
Agriculture: the great opportunity
While the EU is desperately trying to find the money to prop up its ailing and corrupt Common Agricultural Policy, Britain can plan for a productive future…
Unions call for ‘Jones Act’ to save jobs and industry
Britain is an island nation, but its shipping is open to any country in the EU. British ships sail under foreign flags, employing seafarers at below the UK minimum wage. Time to change all that…
The truth about quotas
British fishermen have reacted angrily to attempts to slur them by saying they sold off fishing rights…
Why Britain needs HS2 – and needs it urgently
HS2 or High Speed 2, a new railway from London to Birmingham and then on to the north, has finally got the green signal from the Johnson government…
The environment: what should workers do?
In fighting man-made climate change and defending the environment, the solution does not lie with global capitalism – which created the problems. Nor with the EU, which defends capital. Workers must do it themselves…
Trico 1976: a fighting victory
A few months after the Equal Pay Act came into force, a group of engineering workers in London took on their reluctant employer and won…
The failure of social democracy
The founder of Labour Leave has written a fascinating, often illuminating but ultimately unconvincing analysis of Labour’s woes…
Huge strikes hit universities
University and College Unions have begun their second bout of industrial action this academic year with more universities joining the walkouts.
Scots votes for foreign citizens
The Scottish Parliament has voted to allow foreign nationals to vote in Holyrood as well as local council elections.
Irish voters create upset
After the Irish general election the surge in support for Sinn Féin caught everyone – including Sinn Féin – by surprise.
Housing: Overcrowding doubles
The number of households living in overcrowded privately rented properties has doubled in the last decade.
The Making of a Nation - new leaflet from the CPBML
10 February 2020
If there is a second Scottish referendum, will Scots vote for global capitalism, or for independence through the unity of the British working class? A new leaflet explores the issues.
No limits on access to British fishing grounds, says EU
9 February 2020
The EU is insisting that EU boats continue to have untrammelled access to British waters. The idea makes no sense for Britain.
Outrage as Metro trains outsourced to Switzerland
1 February 2020
Manufacturing union Unite has slammed the government over its commitment to British train manufacturing after a £337 milion contract for new Tyne & Wear metro trains was been awarded to a Swiss company.
Young people 'condemned' by cuts to youth services
1 February 2020
The YMCA released a report this week showing a real-terms decline of 70 per cent in youth services in England and Wales since 2010 – and warning of dire consequences.
MEPs leave Brussels amid EU hostility to national sovereignty
31 January 2020
Britain’s MEPs left the European Parliament for good on Wednesday after a debate which showed that the only nationalism the EU will permit is EU-nationalism.
How to deal with the EU over fishing
23 January 2020
Fishing for Leave has set out the perfect strategy for dealing with the EU’s “self-entitled and belligerent demand to continue its fleet’s unhindered exploitation of British waters”.
Not another has-been preaching regionalism to Britain...
22 January 2020
Political has-beens have been wheeled out to pontificate on why Britain needs regionalism. It doesn’t.
Rail franchise system in meltdown
10 January 2020
As the rail industry waits for the publication of the Williams Review, the current franchise system continues to collapse under the weight of its many contradictions.
New year rail fare rise for passengers
10 January 2020
This week British rail fares rose up to 2.7 per cent while German national rail company Deutsche Bahn made its tickets 10 per cent cheaper for long-distance traffic.
The search for profit - and the march to war
10 January 2020
Unable to reverse its falling rate of profit, capital is increasingly turning to adventures abroad.