Immigration is a class matter
Massive migration into Britain is hitting pay, working conditions and vital infrastructure. It is an attack on the working class, and requires a working class response.
The real special relationship
Britain has been the preferred hunting ground for US multinationals buying up businesses abroad, leading to a serious loss of independence.
1965: The Indonesian coup
Sixty years ago a bloody coup wiped out the Indonesian communist party, and along with it all the trade unions and peasant associations.
Heathrow expansion error
A government with no idea about tackling Britain’s financial problems has latched on to the expansion of the country’s airports as the transport answer to promoting growth. The outcome might not be as positive as promised.
Steel strategy – cautious welcome
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.
Farmers’ fight continues
25 February 2025
Farmers are not giving up on their struggle against inheritance tax changes and other attacks on their industry. Thay are organising widespread protests and are now signing up supermarkets to their cause.
Battling for arts education
25 February 2025
Workers in the arts continue their fight to reverse decades of cuts in government funding. The Arts and Minds Campaign is calling for arts and literature to be restored to the schools core curriculum, and fully funded.
Brexit: youth mobility ‘reset’
25 February 2025
The government plans to offer a youth mobility scheme for young EU students and workers. This is one of several policy initiatives attempting to realign Britain with the EU.
The burden of Thames Water
25 February 2025
Thames Water continues to be a burden on its customers and the public purse. Its latest financial plan agreed in the High Court drew criticism from water campaigners and trade unions.
Scotland: perks for foreign students
25 February 2025
Despite having no power to alter UK immigration policy, Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney has called for a visa scheme to let foreign students work in Scotland after they graduate from a Scottish college or university.
Social care – disgraceful delay
25 February 2025
The government has launched yet another review into social care provision. It won’t even report for three years – a disgrace after decades of indecision. The crisis in providing care needs urgent action.
Chancellor bows down to the banks
25 February 2025
Rachel Reeves is trying to shield banks from paying compensation for mis-selling car finance. She talks about “growth”, but what we see is disregard for the needs of British people.
Net zero – bad for your health
25 February 2025
Energy efficiency schemes launched in the name of the drive to net zero are creating health problems. The government has now acknowledged the wide-scale issues after complaints and media reports.
As unsafe as houses
25 February 2025
Workers must be prepared to fight for their own safety, not least in housing. Predictable risks of flooding and fire have been ignored too often.
Migrating doctors
25 February 2025
The negative impact of migration is a topic that seemingly can’t be discussed. Yet there’s a pressing need to do so, not least in relation to doctors and healthcare workers.
Fix Hammersmith Bridge!
25 February 2025
Hammersmith Bridge in London has been closed to vehicles for six years. The latest delay is blamed on steel shortages.
Peace, land and bread in Britain 2025
The Bolsheviks called for “Peace, Land and Bread” in 1917 at a time of crisis and transition in Russia. They aimed to unite a country weary of a war for rulers they despised and for aims they did not share.
Not left or right - but for British workers
Communists aim to unite workers, those who live by selling their labour power.
The growing threat of war: what can workers do?
What can workers do to stop the growing threat of war? Perhaps the first question we need to ask is: do they want to stop it?
Immigration: how workers can respond
It is a precious thing when workers are able to talk to one another – and listen to the ideas of others. Nowhere is this discussion more needed than over the movement of labour across borders…
Who controls the regulators?
The ongoing failure of regulation in the water industry poses a fundamental question about the governance and accountability of industries and utilities in Britain: how, and in whose interest, are they regulated?
They can’t even run a prison service
Many of our prisons are at breaking point. This has not happened overnight but is the result of a cocktail of circumstances including the actions and inactions of successive governments…
Muck makes money
The water industry is in crisis, like the rest of capitalism. Water quality targets are missed, companies are heavily in debt, infrastructure needs investment. But profits and dividends are up...
Britain must have investment
There is capital – plenty of it – that could be used for investment here in Britain but instead countless billions of pounds are invested overseas. Meanwhile employment and living standards here suffer…
Families don’t grow under capitalism
It’s getting harder and harder to build a family in Britain – and in particular to start one before your thirties. High house prices and low wages mean many are forced to wait longer than they want…
Sex, gender and women’s rights
When women’s rights in Scotland were sacrificed in the name of “progress”, Scottish women decided to fight back. A new book tells their story…
200 years of railways
This year marks the bicentenary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. It will rightly be celebrated with events throughout the year…
Grangemouth: Rally against closure
Hundreds of oil workers from the threatened Grangemouth refinery, delegations from other refineries around the country, and their supporters, marched on Holyrood in Edinburgh on 28 November.
Threat Of War: Campaign at Lakenheath
The campaign against the return of US nuclear weapons to British soil after a 15-year absence is gathering pace.
Water: Thousands march
On 3 November, over 15,000 protesters gathered in central London for the National March for Clean Water. There were simultaneous demonstrations in Glasgow and Belfast.