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Lessons to be learnt from the demise of Appledore shipyard
We need to reinvest, reopen Appledore, and start a new chapter for Britain’s world-class shipbuilding industry, writes HEATHCLIFFE PETTIFER
Instead of mothballing our shipbuilding industry, Britain should be investing and expanding
Rebuilding Labour’s working-class roots and organising power is essential if the party is to recover, says MERCEDES VILLALBA
ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes
Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU was a rejection of the political Establishment and the strategic direction pursued by Britain’s ruling class since the second world war, writes ALEX GORDON
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
THE sad and, in Unite’s view, unnecessary closure of the Appledore shipyard on March 15 after 164 years of existence, raises important questions about how seriously the government takes the future of shipbuilding in Britain and, more generally, the absence of the much-vaunted industrial strategy.
On a human level, the loss of the final skilled 200 jobs at the yard on the River Torridge pierces the heart of this North Devon community. I feel that pain acutely as I worked at the yard for nearly 20 years before becoming a Unite official.
The emotional devastation by the closure decision by Babcock International is compounded by the hard economic fact that the area has some of the lowest weekly earnings in the whole of Britain, so the opportunities for decently paid work to replace the jobs, which have been lost, are scarce
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