How the Tories created a worker shortage in the UK
Austerity, low wages, and degradation of healthcare and public services are to blame
Prem Sikka
This is how we can start to curb fat-cattery and low pay
Inequitable distribution of income has severe consequences.
Will the perpetrators in the Post Office scandal be held to account?
We need a government with a will to break the iron-grip of corporations and elites on institutions of government.
The UK needs to break with neoliberalism to deliver economic growth
‘Political parties incessantly talk about low economic growth but none are willing to address the major issues’
The Post Office Scandal shows how the UK is a hotbed of corruption and cronyism
The root cause of the scandal is corporate power and its ability to hound and silence people into submission.
Britain is in the grip of a new form of feudalism
‘Feudalism never completely disappeared from the UK. It simply put on new garbs.’
Here’s how the government is doing everything it can to attack workers and trade unions
‘It is all one-way traffic, designed to boost corporate profits, weaken worker rights and penalise trade unions’
The government has stolen the right to strike from millions of workers
The conscription of workers is an abuse of state power and the government is openly pursuing anti-worker policies.
Prem Sikka: How the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is the government’s latest erosion of hard-won rights
‘The Bill only targets the less well-off. There is no equivalent surveillance of legislators who accept payments to advance the interests of their corporate paymasters.’
Prem Sikka: Here’s why the autumn statement does nothing to help ordinary working people
‘The chancellor delivered a continuation of austerity, public spending cuts and tax hikes.’