Financial standstill: the EU can't cope with Brexit
13 November 2019
Brexit has brought the EU’s plans to a financial standstill that shows little signs of easing.
The battle for an independent Britain is there to be won
5 November 2019
The general election campaign has started, and with it the combined efforts of the establishment seeking to distract us into delegating the job of independence to parliament.
Impromptu march brings democracy to the streets of London
1 November 2019
The planned official Brexit rally in Parliament Square in London on 31 October did not go ahead. Instead, hundreds of demonstrators arrived to stand opposite parliament to make their feelings felt.
Can capitalism be progressive?
Joseph Stiglitz has won a Nobel Prize for Economics and established himself as a powerful critic of capitalism – but he still seems wedded to it…
Blackouts ahead as energy policy fails
Yes, it’s possible to produce energy without using nuclear power or fossil fuels. But at the moment the price tag for that will be a reversion to pre-industrial levels of production and consumption. No central heating, anyone?
'Independence'-obsessed SNP fails in its day job
Beset by failure in running Scotland, at the SNP party conference in October leader Nicola Sturgeon was forced to bring forward her plan to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence in 2020…
Waiting for a good bus service?
The chaos in bus services looks set to continue with the government rejecting key recommendations in a detailed Transport Committee report. ‘Regulated competition’ – the EU’s old refrain – is still being imposed…
Every empire needs an army – especially the EU
Brexit is about far more than trade and who makes our laws. It is also about who we owe loyalty to, who controls our defence and to whom our military owe allegiance. Inside the EU, that allegiance is above all to the EU…
Next steps on the road to independence
Despite the chaos in Parliament, fundamentally nothing has changed. We still haven’t left, and the opposition has become ever more hysterical – and coldly calculating…
Defending Bradford's cultural heritage
23 October 2019
Bradford library workers across have embarked on strike action campaigning against cuts to the service imposed by the council.
Only one option
Brexit undecided. All options are in the air. But for the people of Britain, those who live and work here, there is only one that works – no deal.
No good guarantees from the EU
We can sit back and trust any state dedicated to the pursuit of profit to guarantee our rights at work and in the environment – least of all the would-be superstate the EU.
Brexiteers commemorate Peterloo
Protesters marked the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre with a marchin Manchester on 19 October calling for democracy to be upheld and the EU referendum result implemented.
Holiday pay: Never mind the guarantee
More than a million workers in Britain do not receive any of the holiday pay they are guaranteed by law
Local government: Liverpool in crisis
Liverpool City Council is facing its worst financial crisis since the Second World War, says its mayor.
Housing: New starts down
House building across England has fallen to the slowest quarterly rate for three years.
It's not a deal. It's a trap. Reject it.
19 October 2019
The prime minister says “Let’s get Brexit done” but the deal he is bringing before Parliament is not Brexit.
Rail nationalisation ruled out
The government is to publish a White Paper to implement the findings of the review of the rail industry led by Keith Williams – ruling out further public ownership.
Top uni salaries soar while debts grow
With universities short of money, more than 4,400 senior staff were paid over £100,000 a year in 2017-8, up more than 10 per cent on the previous year’s tally.
Independence and trade
What’s so good about free trade agreements? They make the rich richer, workers poorer, and they rob countries of the ability to plan…
Future growth for Britain
3 October 2019
A new study from a French bank predicts a science and technology boom in Brtain over the next two decades. Unlike many reports into Brexit, it looks at the long term and predicts a positive future.
Cuts in school funding are not being reversed
More than 80 per cent of state schools in England will have less funding per pupil in real terms in 2020 than in 2015, according to new analysis.
Swingeing cuts to youth services revealed
25 September 2019
New analysis shows that councils’ spending on youth services in England has been reduced by 69 per cent in a decade.
Collectivism and trade unions - the future?
Workers magazine talks to young person just starting out as a union rep for Unite in a large, prestigious manufacturing company based in Britain but with facilities in more than 50 countries.
Austrian unions celebrate victory over Mercosur free trade
23 September 2019
Austrian trade unions are claiming victory after the Austrian parliament rejected the planned free trade agreement between the EU and the Mercosur group of countries.
Just binning the backstop will not be Brexit
22 September 2019
Eight major pro-Brexit groups without party affiliation have launched a joint initiative in defence of a clean Brexit.
Cancel Dutch ScotRail contract, says RMT
21 September 2019
With anger growing at the service failures Abellio ScotRail, members and supporters of the RMT union marched through Glasgow to the company HQ and on to the Scottish Government offices .
RMT union member "no platformed" for supporting Brexit
1 September 2019
A pro-Brexit RMT activist has been “no-platformed” by two prominent journalists, who are among the darlings of so-called "left" EU supporters.
How the EU attacks the right to strike
In the last issue, we looked at how workers pay the price of the European Union. In this article, we focus on how the EU has restricted unions’ ability to defend wages and conditions…
Further education: a vital area for growth
With a new prime minister saying we will leave the EU by 31 October at the latest, those who work in further education must seize the opportunity to say what is needed – and to demand it happens…