Brexiteers Hard Right Agenda a Threat to Workers Rights
Has Theresa May survived? Perhaps – it is still too early to say, but what is clear is that while the Tories continue to negotiate between themselves on what Brexit…
Progressive Forces for a New Europe
Claude Moraes MEP writes that there is a great thirst on the Left for common progressive solutions in a reformed European Union Newly-elected MEPs will take up their seats next…
It’s time to remortgage – put rents to use on a new wave of council house building
Housing has moved rapidly up the political agenda over the past year or so. And it’s about time too. The problems in the housing system are now hard to ignore.…
College Teachers Fight For Fairer Pay
Members of the University and College Union from13 different colleges have been on strike action this week over pay. The two-day walkouts represent the second wave of action in response…
Mutual Housing Offers More than Markets
Social housing is gradually being pushed towards a commercial future of quasi-markets and provision of ‘affordable’ housing for a wider variety of income groups. But a new report argues that…
University Staff Strike to Protect Their Pensions and Their Profession
The University and College Union (UCU) is currently in dispute over proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) which would see members lose around £10,000 a year in retirement…
The government’s evidence-free policy on benefit sanctions
You would think that the government, and the Department for Work and Pensions in particular, would have studied the evidence on the efficacy of benefit sanctions before they made the…
Brexit: What Will We See In 2025?
Since the vote to leave the EU on 23 June, the news has been dominated by Brexit. We’ve had rolling coverage of every statement about trade, single market membership and…
Selling off the Eurostar sets Britain apart from the rest of the world
In October 2021, the government announced it was to sell off its half of the Eurostar. This shouldn’t have come as a great surprise, as the government seems keen to…
NHS Whistleblowers Save Lives But Need Protection
Elsie Devine, is one of over 650 people who are estimated to have lost their lives at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Hampshire over the period from 1989 to 2000.…
Securing the future of our public services
We all know about the different long term challenges facing our public services. The ageing population and the increase in people suffering from long term conditions, for example, have huge…