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Car industry highlights

  • USA / The US ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ – blatant protectionism

    US monopolies are hoping to survive the present crisis at the expense of their rivals, but alienating all their allies will ultimately only hasten their demise.

    24 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • 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.

    8 Sep 2021 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • Lay-offs and closures / Nissan slashes workforce and pensions, poised to flee Sunderland altogether

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

    31 Jul 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
  • USA / General Motors workers on strike in the US

    The workers have paid a heavy price for their employer’s return to profitability.

    25 Oct 2019 ,
  • Ukraine / Zelensky empowered by new parliament, but fails to deliver change of direction

    Ukraine’s new president is patently failing to live up to the peaceful hopes of the workers who elected him.

    17 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • 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 ,
  • China / US-China trade war escalates

    In his quest to crush China’s technological advance, Trump is playing with a fire he cannot control.

    31 May 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
  • 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
  • Pollution / VW emissions scandal

    Capitalism will always put the need for maximum profit above the people’s health – or even saving the planet.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian

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Car industry 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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