It’s Time to Close The Freedom of Information Loophole
Hundreds of 'arm's-length bodies' are delivering public services worth over £220 billion of taxpayers' money. They cannot be allowed to evade public scrutiny.
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Port Talbot’s Betrayal Shows Britain’s Lack of Direction
There is no future for a country with no real approach to developing a green steel industry — Port Talbot’s treatment demonstrates the Tories' lack of seriousness to this reality.
We Are Far Too Close to Nuclear Armageddon
For eight decades since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there has been a knife-edge balancing act to prevent further nuclear usage. We are moving further away from it — and at our peril.
Scrapping Port Talbot Is Social Vandalism
Now thousands of steelworkers are facing an uncertain future in an area already devastated by decades of neglect, serious state intervention - and a real industrial strategy for steel communities - is desperately needed.
The Post Office Scandal: Why Do Working-Class Lives Matter Less?
Time and again, working-class people are forced to fight long and hard to get justice while the rich get off scot-free. It’s time those in positions of power stopped sitting on their hands, writes Ian Lavery MP.
Alasdair Gray’s Universal Story
Poor Things is a scabrous satire of the stifling rationalism and oppressive hierarchies of class, imperialism and gender which propelled Glasgow’s rapid industrialisation in the nineteenth century. But it is also a universal story.
The Stormont Stalemate Strike
Today across the north of Ireland, 170,000 workers are standing together on strike against real-terms pay cuts and the neglect caused by dysfunction at the highest levels of the Assembly.
The Government Has Declared War on Workers — It’s Time to Fight Back.
Forty years ago, the Thatcher government attacked trade union rights. Union members at GCHQ Cheltenham were told to quit their union or be sacked. The trade union movement stood together to defeat this assault. As the Tories introduce new draconian anti-strike laws, it’s time to do it again.
Bombing Yemen Is Not Self-Defence
Regardless of what Western politicians claim, the bombing of Yemen is a defence of Israel’s attempted genocide in Gaza — and risks triggering a regional war.
Labour Has No Hiding Place on Palestine
The Labour Party’s support for Israel’s massacre in Gaza shows that Keir Starmer has learnt nothing from Tony Blair’s morally and politically disastrous Iraq War.
South Africa’s Case Was a Display of International Solidarity — We Should Support It
At the International Court of Justice, South Africa spoke on behalf of the billions of people who oppose Israel's genocide in Gaza — and put Western governments to shame for their deplorable complicity.
Policing the Silence
From Black Lives Matter to the death of the Queen, the fierce arguments generated by minute silences in football reflect how the game has become a battleground where fans contest their political and cultural identities.