Brexit - The chips are down
Britain is not the only country whose agriculture has been distorted by the EU...
Electric Cars - Cornish promise
In a big boost for electric vehicle battery production in Britain, mining exploration company Cornish Lithium announced significant investment...
Covid-19 - Normal Service
Hardly any libraries in the whole of Britain’s higher education system maintained their usual services through the fraught 2020 autumn term.
Now for real control
Whatever the restrictions and disruption – and these words are being written before the outcome of negotiations with the EU is clear – Britain can and must now chart its own future in the world. This is a pivotal moment.
Rolls-Royce comes back for more redundancies
4 December 2020
Aerospace workers at Barnoldswick, Lancashire, who have been striking in defence of jobs, have been further hit by further proposed job losses by employer Rolls-Royce.
HS2: Two projects in one
1 December 2020
So much of the coverage of the HS2 project has focused on passenger journey times that the true scope of the project has almost been obscured from public view.
Covid-19: Lessons from Liverpool
1 December 2020
The news that Liverpool is to enter Tier 2 when the current restrictions end this week is a challenge to the government’s default top-down, we-know-what’s-best-for-you approach to dealing with the pandemic.
Pledge to rebuild British shipbuilding
28 November 2020
The government is promising that increased defence spending will help revive British shipbuilding. People will be demanding that it does.
An agricultural call to arms
25 November 2020
A new book does more than grapple with the decline of Britain’s farming – it sets out what needs to be done.
Home-grown promise of small nuclear reactors
25 November 2020
Government funding for advanced nuclear technologies could help end Britain's reliance on Chinese and French companies for new nuclear power stations.
Sinn Fein and DUP unite over EU food threat
23 November 2020
A row over the flow of food trade between the British mainland and Northern Ireland has led the leaders of Sinn Fein and the DUP to tell the EU it would be unacceptable to disrupt food supply in the event of a No-deal Brexit.
Behind the vaccine breakthroughs
23 November 2020
The scientists involved in developing vaccines against Covid-19 coronavirus – wherever they are based – are part of a global collaboration that has achieved the near impossible in record time.
Coronavirus: workers taking control
22 November 2020
Nothing illustrates the potential of collective and people-led organisation like the response of British workers to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Terrorist murders
13 November 2020
We have said it before but must say it again: people who stab, bomb, and shoot workers in the name of religion are fascists.
Devolution 'confusion' hampered Covid-19 response, says report
9 November 2020
A report from the Institute of Government points out the dangers of devolution exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Rolls-Royce workers take up the fight for engineering
Rolls-Royce workers at in Lancashire are to strike for three weeks in November against the company’s plan to move production offshore.
Break the separatist mindset!
There are now six months to blunt the axe of those who plan to break up Britain. But encouragingly, those who are pushing for fragmentation are increasingly seeking to tear each other apart too…
What future for Britain’s railways?
With nationalisation the only sensible option for rail, the government is moving swiftly to avoid doing it. Instead, it is looking to turn the industry upside down, with huge implications for jobs, pay, conditions and services…
The future of money
In a world where much commerce is conducted digitally and cash use is falling, the central banks are stuck in the past, supplying notes and coins while credit is controlled by the private retail banks. But that could soon change…
Time to take control of our food
Those who advocate a free trade deal with the US claiming that it will lower food prices are putting the cart before the horse. We don’t need free trade – we need a strategy for food production, and its distribution…
Fighting Covid-19, Cuba-style
Socialist Cuba continues to demonstrate the inherent strength of its society through its capacity to bring a rise in Covid-19 infections under control – while continuing to innovate and resist the attacks on it from the US…
Meet the new ‘mafia’ economics
A trenchant analysis indicts the abdication of state responsibility and the persistent belief in the power of markets to fix the current financial mess…
We have the power
Wherever you look in the world, you will see the green shoots of the future. And wherever you see them, you will see a working class – thinking, organising, acting.
Research: EU funding grab
Britain’s normally pro-EU academic establishment is becoming edgy as it absorbs the implications of the EU’s price tag for joining its multibillion-euro Horizon Europe research programme.
Nobel Prize: Rebuke for ECJ
The award of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of CRISP-R gene editing technology recognition of the importance of the field – and an implicit rebuke to the European Court of Justice.
STUC: public spending ‘plot’?
Pro-separatism in the Scottish TUC seems to have led it to conclude that increased public spending by Westminster is against the interest of workers…
Tanker drivers set to strike
Tanker drivers based at Stanlow oil refinery in Cheshire have overwhelmingly voted for strike action against redundancies.
The rise of nuclear power
24 October 2020
Despite Britain's formidable base of scientific and engineering knowledge, development of nuclear power has stalled. Britain needs to change that to secure future energy supplies.
Cuba begins clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccine
Cuba has begun trials of a coronavirus vaccine – the first vaccine against the virus in Latin America to achieve certification by the World Health Organization.
On the brink
17 October 2020
If there are still those who have not accepted the necessity of Britain’s departure from the European Union, the behaviour of EU negotiators provides a compelling justification.