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British manufacturing highlights

  • Industry / The Sanjeev Gupta, Lex Greensill and David Cameron affair

    Once again we see the absurdity of a system that leaves the fate of essential industries and millions of workers in the hands of rapacious fraudsters.

    21 May 2021 , Lalkar

  • Industry / Greensill debacle: the door keeps revolving

    The collapse of this particular debt-laden finance house is drawing public attention to some very uncomfortable truths.

    3 May 2021 ,

  • Industry / Cameron’s hand caught trapped in the till as Greensill collapses

    The collapse of yet another debt-laden house of cards has shone a light on the revolving door between career politicians and the corporations they serve.

    27 Mar 2021 , Proletarian

  • Industry / With ‘saviours’ like Gupta, who needs enemies?

    If you are rich enough, you can get richer still without spending a penny; it is the workers who pay when the vultures’ schemes collapse.

    9 Mar 2021 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / Chester Road closure: No to GKN’s industrial vandalism!

    A 270-year-old British manufacturer is being slowly dismantled by asset-stripping vultures, destroying vital jobs and engineering capacity in the process.

    4 Feb 2021 , Proletarian

  • Industry / Government announces extra £16.5bn for military

    Government promises spending will protect 10,000 jobs, but at what cost to the working class?

    9 Dec 2020 ,

  • Economy / British trade agreements after Brexit

    By pinning all their hopes for Britain’s future on a US trade deal, our rulers are taking us out of the frying pan and into the fire.

    10 Jun 2020 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / Thousands more to go at Rolls Royce’s Derby plant

    As more and more manufacturing jobs are being scrapped, workers are the victims of the downward spiral of capitalist crisis.

    6 Jun 2020 ,

  • Industry / Car industry crisis pushes Peugeot-Fiat merger

    Workers rightly fear for their jobs as another round of ‘cost-cutting’ looms.

    15 Jan 2020 , Proletarian

  • Industry / British Steel sold for ‘blood money’? A reply to the Morning Star

    Where should workers look for their salvation from the crises that destroy industry and jobs?

    26 Aug 2019 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / Nissan to cull 12,500 jobs globally as Chinese car market stalls

    The crisis of overproduction continues to wreak havoc with workers’ lives.

    12 Aug 2019 ,

  • Lay-offs and closures / Fight against the closure of Ford Bridgend

    Workers are not to blame for the crisis; stop redundancies and demand nationalisation!

    17 Jun 2019 ,

  • Lay-offs and closures / British Steel: overproduction crisis claims another scalp

    As thousands of workers lose their jobs, the vultures of Greybull Capital are standing at the front of the queue for ‘reimbursement’.

    3 Jun 2019 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / Honda doesn’t blame Brexit

    The cover is blown on the attempt to blame everything on Brexit as Honda’s CEO denies that the Swindon closure has anything to do with Brexit uncertainty.

    28 Feb 2019 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobs massacre at Jaguar Land Rover confirmed

    Overproduction not Brexit is to blame. But if there really are too many cars in the world, what are workers to do?

    16 Jan 2019 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / Defend Brexit and manufacturing jobs

    Overproduction in the car industry is being blamed on ‘Brexit uncertainty’ in an effort to justify reversing the EU referendum result.

    9 Jan 2019 , Birmingham Worker

  • Disputes / Cammell Laird strike suspended for now

    Workers’ resistance has led to a stay of execution at the Merseyside shipyard.

    3 Jan 2019 , Lalkar

  • Lay-offs and closures / Cammell Laird shipyard strikes

    Overproduction is hitting industry after industry, proving once more that capitalism cannot solve the problems of the masses.

    27 Dec 2018 ,

  • Lay-offs and closures / FT leaks plans by Jaguar Land Rover to axe 5,000 jobs

    The joy of capitalism: unemployment is the workers’ reward for enriching the company's owners.

    21 Dec 2018 , Birmingham Worker

  • Lay-offs and closures / Ford plans jobs massacre

    Overproduction is affecting the car industry severely, as glutted markets take their toll on sales and workers are thrown to the wall.

    18 Oct 2018 , Proletarian

  • Industry / GKN takeover brings mayhem to thousands of working-class lives

    Unelected shareholders and executives continue to make decisions affecting thousands of families, revealing the true nature of the capitalist system.

    26 May 2018 , Lalkar

  • Trade unions / Derek Robinson: the passing of a working-class hero

    A staunch and fearless union leader, one of an increasingly rare breed.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / Tata: the vultures circle

    While the capitalist crisis continues to destroy workers' lives, our union leaders are still trying to push us down the blind alley of support for British imperialism.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian

  • Industry / Steel industry in terminal decline

    The only way to save the steel industry in Britain is to fight class against class.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian

  • Working-class history / The matchgirls’ strike of 1888

    A landmark victory in working-class history, with much relevance to the many workers today who are once more unorganised and unrepresented by any union.

    1 Jun 2008 , Proletarian

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British manufacturing theory

  • Lay-offs and closures / Job cuts and factory closures; the car industry in Britain

    As automation and overproduction combine to wipe out industrial jobs, what is the answer to this seemingly insoluble problem?

    12 Mar 2019, Lalkar

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