Communist message to Silk Mill rally: Ditch the Labour party!

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Lay-offs and closures highlights

British politics / Communist message to Silk Mill rally: Ditch the Labour party!

Don’t settle for social democracy when only scientific socialism has the answer!

Disputes / Victory to the striking railworkers; defend the right to strike!

In fighting to save jobs and defend pay, railworkers are in the front line of a desperately-needed push-back against the onslaught of capital.

Disputes / Train strike: Britain could see the largest walk-out since the 1926 general strike

Meanwhile, the government is considering adding to anti-trade-union legislation to try to outlaw the action before it begins.

Lay-offs and closures / The day that P&O sacked all its staff: view from a worker in Dover

When capital makes decisions about its profit margins, it is real people whose lives are destroyed.

Lay-offs and closures / P&O sackings: Don’t make workers pay for the capitalist crisis

The ferry company’s callous treatment of its employees reminds us yet again that the logic of the capitalist system is impervious to the needs of human beings.

Italy / Workers at the GKN factory in Florence fight back

Workers demand an end to the dismantling and export of their industries and the protection of their rights to healthcare and a decent environment.

Social wage / Unemployment and poverty set to rise as furlough ends and benefits are cut

A brutal shock is in store for many workers as the temporary multi-tiered unemployment support system is slashed back to the bone.

Pay and conditions / Bringing Kaplan to book: time to get organised in the gig economy

A reminder that the whole reason for having trade unions is to fight the workers’ corner everywhere.

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.

Lay-offs and closures / Jobless figures mount as Paperchase is latest retail chain to fail

As the economic crisis is exacerbated by repeated lockdowns, company after company is going to the wall.

Lay-offs and closures / Sunak extends furlough till April as jobless stats sow panic

The number of redundancies continues to climb inexorably each month, despite all efforts to massage the figures and soften the blow.

Economy / Edinburgh Woollen Mill: the vultures circle

Thousands of workers look set to lose their jobs, but the man whose fortune they made will have no trouble hanging onto his millions.

Lay-offs and closures / Nissan slashes workforce and pensions, poised to flee Sunderland altogether

Blame Brexit; blame covid ... blame anything but the capitalist system.

Lay-offs and closures / P&O takes the money and runs

The shipping company is laying off a thousand workers on the very routes it is being paid public money to operate.

Lay-offs and closures / Imperial College sacking vital IT workers

University managers plan to axe more than half their IT staff, despite their heroic work in enabling vital pandemic research.

Lay-offs and closures / British Gas and SPS are latest to announce big job losses

As the economic crisis bites, employers are looking to cut not only jobs but also pay, pensions and everything else.

Pay and conditions / BA threatens to sack its entire workforce

After rinsing the furlough scheme, the airline is now insisting that its staff should accept huge pay cuts or be sacked.

Lay-offs and closures / Debenhams shafts its cafe workers

Catering staff at the department store have been summarily dismissed without notice or redundancy pay.

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.

Lay-offs and closures / Jobless total rockets

As the economic crisis bites, over a million workers in Britain have been forced precipitously onto the breadline.

Lay-offs and closures / British Airways takes the money and runs

The Covid-19 crisis is highlighting the necessity for public ownership of all our vital services.

Capitalist crisis / Burying bad news: crash caused by overproduction not coronavirus

The present economic crisis has been long in the making, but is being passed off as the result of the covid lockdown.

Lay-offs and closures / RIP FlyBe

The only rational way to ensure that vital infrastructure exists and is run for the benefit of all is public ownership.

Lay-offs and closures / City leeches celebrate the demise of Thomas Cook

Financial gamblers in the City are playing with loaded dice, deliberately pushing companies over the edge in order to get paid.

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.

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

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

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’.

Social wage / Fire Brigade Inc

Cuts and outsourcing are part of the slow drive towards total privatisation of this essential service.

Lay-offs and closures / Interserve: another outsourcing giant hits the wall

In the pursuit of monopoly profits, another building corporation turned ‘public service provider’ has gone bust – and the public will be picking up the tab.

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.

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?

Lay-offs and closures / Carillion: lawyers make hay whilst workers wait for pay

As workers try to get recompense for lost jobs and wages, the whole crooked business of outsourcing is being exposed to view.

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.

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.

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.

Lay-offs and closures / Support Asda Queslett workers’ fight for jobs

Don’t let machines come before jobs, nor profit before people.

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.

Disputes / Support Birmingham’s homecare workers

Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.

Lay-offs and closures / More redundancies in the Midlands: Rolls-Royce and JLR

The world crisis of overproduction is far from over.