Workers May/June 2024

P&O Ferries workers are continuing to protest against the notorious sacking and re-hiring scandal.

The increase in net migration into Britain is mainly driven by legal routes and not by people smuggled into the country.

Local government minister Simon Hoare announced in February that commissioners would be appointed to run Nottingham City Council.

After the bloody world war between rival imperialisms, the British ruling class and its allies turned their attention to the infant Soviet Union…

As communications systems have become ever more centralised and monopolised, so too has state control of them. They are now weapons of war…

Local councils are cutting services and closing facilities across the country. One small town in Wales is making a stand.

After a year of unprecedented industrial action, the National Education Union discussed what to do next in its ongoing pay campaign at its Easter conference.

Hospital consultants in England have voted to accept a pay offer. The offer will see most consultants receive increases of between 2.9 and 12.8 per cent on top of 6 per cent already offered in November 2023.

Far from creating wealth or adding value, private equity (PE) is another capitalist way to filch wealth already created by workers.

High street names are disappearing, branches are being closed, city centres are emptying. Is nobody buying anything any more – or are capitalist greed and asset stripping to blame?