4 April 2025
The idea of conscription keeps returning. The ruling class wants to make the idea acceptable. The defence of Britain is a far wider matter and workers need to ask questions about that.
25 February 2025
Steel is a vital product, yet the future of the industry in Britain is continually threatened. Recent moves by the government are an opportunity to change that, as long as it addresses energy costs.
18 December 2024
Farmers continue to campaign against tax changes and other threats to farming. This focuses attention on food production and the condition of our countryside.
2 November 2024
Details of the Budget were widely trailed beforehand. But behind the headlines and promises there is much that should concern workers.
25 October 2024
The defence pact with Germany just announced is the latest step in the Labour government’s warmongering. Since the election, Starmer and his ministers have actively ramped up NATO commitments in the name of “defence”.
21 October 2024
This year’s TUC showed rising tension between an ideological support of net zero and the real-world impacts on workers. A life-long trade unionist has contacted Workers with his observations.
21 October 2024
The Employment Rights Bill, published on 10 October, does not repeal all the anti-union acts enforced by Thatcher and her successors, Tory and Labour. And the promises of change don’t stand up to scrutiny.
9 September 2024
The final report from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry says that the deaths in the fire were all avoidable. It sets out how that came about and makes many recommendations to improve safety, which need to be acted on.
11 July 2024
Despite claiming to be a government of change, Labour continues to support NATO and overseas aggression. If anything, they are escalating the conflict in Ukraine.
22 April 2024
The USA has worsened the prospects of peace in three regions of the world. It has voted funds for increased military support to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Described as enabling defence and security, this action will escalate already dangerous situations.
15 April 2024
Britain’s largest privatised water company is in financial trouble, as are others. This threatens the supply and safety of our water. It need not be that way.
2 February 2024
The Welsh government can’t persuade Welsh workers that more devolution is good for them. A recent report by its own commission provides further evidence of that – and of its misguided ambition.
25 January 2024
The British and US governments are stoking conflict across the world, supporting Israel to continue its war on Gaza. They oppose a ceasefire in Gaza and egg Ukraine on against Russia, ignoring Britain’s needs.
22 January 2024
Student loans aren’t a good deal for students or taxpayers. A new report highlights the increasing costs for government.
24 September 2023
Members of the Universities and Colleges Union face difficult choices in continuing their action on pay and conditions in the face of employer resistance.
8 September 2023
Safety in the NHS is ensured by the collective organisation of professional skilled workers, the scandal of Lucy Letby's murders at the Countess of Cheshire hospital shows.
1 September 2023
Closing schools just before the start of term was sudden and unplanned but no surprise. Many school buildings are in poor repair and have been for some time. This is unsafe and bad for pupils’ education.
21 August 2023
Government debt headlines when it goes up or when the government says it wants to reduce it. The level of debt has spiralled out of control, and capitalism has no answer.
9 March 2023
Health service workers are making progress in their pay dispute now that the government is talking to all unions directly about NHS England pay.
Sturgeon’s resignation is a blow to the separatist project. Working class struggle across Britain shows a unity that undermines separatist notions.
9 February 2023
The risk of war is increasing in China as well as Europe. The US and NATO are talking up China as a threat, and upping their military spending and actvity.
9 December 2022
The government has finally given the go-ahead for a coal mine in Cumbria which provide high-grade coal for steelmaking. It needs to stick with the decision.
29 November 2022
The joined-up thinking in Britain’s immediate response to the need for a Covid-19 vaccine in 2020 is now absent – despite its success protecting Brtain's population.
26 September 2022
The new government’s economic policies continue those of the past – with a belief in capitalism as the only possible economic system, whose crises must be paid for by the people of Britain.
The government’s Spring Statement was a budget by a finance capitalist for finance capital. Its every action is an assault on our living standards driven by a legacy of debt.
16 November 2021
1 November 2021
The government’s economic statement isn’t the final word on our economic future. Workers must take this on – in fighting for pay and more.
How wildly distorted statistics helped an unholy alliance of EU-adherents and enthusiasts for globalism to turn a supply-chain glitch into a full-blown crisis.
Medical schools saw an astonishing 21 per cent surge in applications to train to be a doctor for entry in 2021. But most applicants will be turned away – while Britain continues to import doctors trained abroad.
30 July 2021
More than 600 steel-making jobs at Sheffield Forgemasters have been secured following the decision to nationalise the company.
