Brexit
Tories take aim at migrant workers as Brexit drives immigration to record high
Keir Starmer and Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper are desperate not to be viewed as ‘soft on migrants’.
Windsor Frameworks leaves Stormont in limbo
UK-EU deal sidelines reveals decorative nature of Northern Ireland Assembly
Economy: The worst is yet to come
Assumptions that damage to the UK economy was inevitable have now been backed up with concrete evidence.
Labour shortages result of attacks on migrant workers
By Dave Stockton THE CONFEDERATION of British Industries (CBI), representing 190,000 companies, warned on 18 October that ‘acute’ labour shortages will spread across more and more industries, from construction and distribution to retail and healthcare. And this crisis could last as long as two years. Though hospitality trades have enjoyed a strong bounce-back, this sector […]
Workers Expected to Pay for Worst Economic Crisis since 2008
By Tim Nailsea BRITAIN’S ECONOMIC growth has almost stalled because of shortages of labour in parts of industry and of material inputs, due to disruptions in the supply chain, coupled with the effects of Brexit. GDP grew by 0.4% in August but is still 0.8% below where it was in February 2020, before the country […]
From mines to oil wells, Brexit is a environmental disaster
New environmental regulation prioritises the economy.
The first fruits of Brexit: 48-hr week under attack
48-hour week under attack.
Labour: no responsibility for Johnson’s Brexit!
By KD Tait Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal will be voted on by Parliament this week. With an 80-seat majority, the deal is certain to pass. It has already been unanimously backed by the remaining 27 EU member states. The campaign to leave the EU, based on the nationalist myth of reclaiming British ‘sovereignty’ was a […]
Boris Johnson’s Brexit heralds race to the bottom
Statement by the Political Committee of Red Flag Whatever a narrow majority of the electorate imagined they would get when they voted to Leave the European Union, the strategists who planned Brexit knew exactly what they wanted. Nigel Farage’ s UKIP and the European Research Group with Jacob Rees Mogg, like their co-thinkers in the […]
Paul Embery: When the dog whistle becomes tedious
Tim Nailsea reviews Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class by Paul Embery
Brexit talks hang in the balance
Deal or no deal, the working class loses.
Health vs the economy: what’s the best way out of the pandemic?
For a zero-covid strategy.
Overseas Operations Bill: Starmer’s march to the right hits double-time
Labour abstains on bill that decriminalises torture.
Double bluff or full throttle towards the Brexit precipice?
What happened to the "oven ready" Brexit?
Tories to use Brexit as cover for assault on democratic rights
AS JOHNSON’S Tory government consolidates its base with firm promises to leave the E.U. by next month, it is also setting out a social programme which will significantly roll back basic political freedoms. The Queen’s speech, delivered last month, affirms the government’s commitment to a series of authoritarian policies that featured in its election manifesto, […]
Labour’s class problem
What is the working class in Britain? That is a pretty big topic to cover, fraught with all kinds of debate and controversies. Of course the Marxist left talks about the working class all the time because we see it as an agent of revolutionary change, a class with the potential to reshape the world along democratic and collective lines, away from capitalist exploitation and market based competition
Playing the Orange Card
The Brexit campaign has been directly responsible for a huge spike in national chauvinism and racist violence. To deny or minimise this, as some on the left do, is to completely ignore the impact of reactionary arguments like “needing to take control of our borders”, “stopping free movement from the EU” and “restoring national sovereignty” that have dominated the Brexit agenda. There is no progressive dynamic here but a reactionary harking back to Britain’s imperial past and accepting the myth that migrants are to blame for economic woes.
Approaching the Brexit endgame
As we go to press, the Punch and Judy show of Boris Johnson’s Brexit negotiations is moving into its final act with exchanges of a “Oh yes we will! – Oh no you won’t” type flying between London and Brussels. Certainly on neither side is this real negotiation: just an attempt to shift the blame […]
A socialist solution to the capitalist crisis
In this excerpt from our new European Action Programme we argue that there is no national solution to the crisis since all major questions require transformation of the whole continent.
Reject Corbyn’s pro-Brexit policy
The ‘deal’ agreed between the leader’s office and the trade unions is another stitch-up organised behind the backs of members, who should reject this unworkable policy
The fight for a United Socialist Europe
In this excerpt from our new European Action Programme we argue that there is no national solution to the crisis since all major questions require transformation of the whole continent
