Industrial
Healthworkers – fight to make Labour pay up
Health workers should organise to meet a Labour government with a united front
Labour waters down workers’ rights plan
Labour's plan to extend workers' rights will be gutted by 'consultation' with bosses unless trade unions fight back
Trade unionists campaign to divest pension funds from Israel
Trade unionists are organising to take control of their pensions
Further Education: UCU special conference rejects national strike campaign
A rank and file conference is needed to bring together leftwing activists to develop a fighting policy
Goldsmiths lecturers fight 132 job cuts
Goldsmith's lecturers are fighting cuts of up to 25% of academic staff.
Sharon Graham scabs on Palestine
Union leader chooses militarism over internationalism
Save Port Talbot: strike and occupy for nationalisation
3,000 jobs are under threat at Tata Steel. The fight will have consequences across the whole industry.
Sharon Graham: a mid-term report
Halfway through Graham’s first term, we look at the general secretary’s record and the limits of her return to ‘pure’ trade unionism.
Train drivers’ union repels first test of new anti-strike law
Has threat of escalating strike action turned Minimum Service law into 'a paper tiger'?
Northern Ireland: escalate public sector strike
By Bernie McAdam OVER 150,000 public sector workers went on strike on Thursday 18 January in the biggest strike action the ‘Northern Ireland’ state has ever seen. Workers from 16 trade unions involving public transport, education, health and the civil service walked out for the day over an outstanding pay award. A near General Strike […]
Obituary: Dave Lewis (1959–2024)
Dave Lewis, revolutionary socialist and founder of Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners
PCS elections: Low turnout shows union activists must organise
The defeat of PCS’s cost-of-living pay strikes dominated the election.
Tesla strike in Sweden: Organise for victory and control of the unions
Tesla is on the defensive in Sweden in the face of this union show of power.
Unison rank and file want to get organised
Unison is at a crossroads.
PCS: Vote Lloyd and Moloney, but rank and file must organise to break with Broad Leftism
By PCS activists Members of the civil servants’ union PCS will vote to elect their general secretary and assistant general secretary in November. The contest is between the ruling Left Unity faction candidates Fran Heathcote for general secretary and Paul O’Conner for assistant general secretary, and Marion Lloyd (Socialist Party) and incumbent AGS John Moloney […]
Organise a workers boycott of Israel
Palestinian trade unions have issued a call for solidarity from the international labour movement.
For workers’ sanctions against Israel’s war
Fight for workers' control to stop UK complicity in the occupation
How can the health strikes win?
An unprecedented seven days of strike action over 16 days by consultants and junior doctors.
A tale of three rank-and-file conferences
How can we build a rank and file movement?
Royal Mail: workers can counter attacks at the grassroots
Bosses walk all over deal as union leaders dither.
Royal Mail bosses line up to cut public service
After months of residents complaining about letters going undelivered for days or even weeks, and workers leaking photos of frames full of undelivered mail, the regulator Ofcom has declared a review of the Universal Service Obligation. The USO is a legal obligation, held by Royal Mail, dictating quality of service requirements. For instance, 93% of […]
