An Open Letter to union activists and the left on the next steps for our movement

THE TORIES’ plan to deport migrants who arrive on small boats to Rwanda has been ruled illegal by the Court of Appeal. First announced in April 2022, the government has already given Rwanda £140 million, without managing to deport a single refugee under the scheme. The latest appeal was brought by the United Nations refugee […]

Industrial disputes round-up

Resolution adopted by the XIIth Congress of the League for the Fifth International.

The League for the Fifth International corrects its errors on the character of the war in Ukraine

Industrial bulletin for 10 June 2023

Over half a million council and school employees are currently balloting for strike action to win a real pay rise. If successful, this would be the biggest strike yet in the wave of action over the cost of living crisis. But the task is huge.

The CWU leadership are running scared of their own members. Workers Power argues for a rank and file movement

The TUC has fined the NEU £153,000, bang in the middle of their strike campaign.

Editorial June 2023, No. 404

To change the world, we must first understand it! That’s why we’re organising our Internationalism summer camp again this year. Over more than 60 workshops we will deal with the causes of war and crisis. Together we want to discuss what effects the current world situation is having on the situation of women and LGBT+ […]

Editorial May 2023, No. 403

THE LATEST inflation figure of 10.1% surprised many economists. It won’t have surprised many workers —except that it wasn’t higher. The Mirror reported on the day of the announcement, ‘Struggling households are now faced with shocking food prices, with cheese 49% more expensive than a year ago, eggs up 28%, sugar 33% and a white […]

Health bulletin for 29 March 2023

Editorial April 2023, No. 402

Obituary, Paul Scully

Editorial February 2023, No. 400

By Alex Rutherford and Marcel Rajecky ON 30 DECEMBER, the Israeli parliament voted into office a government headed by Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu. This time, Netanyahu has included in his coalition representatives of a number of extreme religious and far right parties, who form the Religious Zionism (RZ) bloc. A statement by Netanyahu on the […]

By Pete Thompson WORKERS IN Royal Mail and Parcelforce took 18 days of strike action last year against bosses’ plans to hold down pay and rip up terms and conditions in a union-busting campaign to transform the company on the model of its gig-economy parcel courier competitors. Strike action was enough to see some significant […]

By Lars Keller WITH BRUTE force, the state and RWE have created facts on the ground, storming, clearing and demolishing Lützerath within a week. Hundreds of activists were evicted from tree houses and squats. 35,000 climate activists came out over the weekend and shouted “Lützi stays!” Many wrestled with the police in the mud and […]

By Marc Lassalle THE NUMBERS speak for themselves. More than two million workers marched on 19 January against President Emmanuel Macron’s latest attempt to reform the pension system. In a sign of the widespread opposition amongst workers, a rare united front saw all the main trade union federations on strike bringing transport, energy and schools […]

Industrial bulletin for 1 February 2023

THE WORKING class is facing the most serious attack on its living standards since the introduction of austerity after the financial crisis of 2007–8. Workers have responded with the biggest wave of strike action since the 1980s. Millions of workers in the private and public sector have struck for pay rises to keep pace with […]

THE STRIKES that have dominated the headlines for six months represent a decade of pent-up anger.Millions of workers, especially in the public sector, have seen their real take-home pay collapse by 20–25% under the Tories; now they’re asking us to take another 10–15% cut. The dam has burst. Industrial action stands at a 30 year […]

This model motion is being put to trade union branches and local trades councils by members and supporters of Workers Power with the aim of bringing together the labour movement, socialist organisations and working class communities to build a mass social movement to defend jobs, pay and living standards. Let us know if you pass […]

RISHI SUNAK’S new anti-strike Bill aims to make any effective strike on the railways, in hospitals or in schools illegal, by requiring unions to negotiate ‘minimum service levels’ with their employer before every strike. The Bill has widened the group of workers affected to include firefighters, ambulance workers and border staff in response to the […]

INFLATION HAS reached its highest level since the 1980s. The November rate for the UK was 10.67%. Between September 2021 and September 2022, food prices increased by 14.5 percent. At the same time annual wages rises in the private sector stood at 6.7% and 2.9% in the public sector. The purchasing power of wages has […]

AS IMPORTANT as they are, these strikes are not the immediate answer for the whole working class. Given weak levels of unionisation and strikes in Britain since the 1980s and Thatcher, there must be a social movement against the high cost of living crisis—the poor, those on benefits, pensioners, low income workers and precarious sections […]

Archive article about the 1982 NHS strike.

Health bulletin for 14 December 2022