Bah Humbug
By Mike Black WORKERS AT the factory that makes Humbug sweets are striking against their Scrooge employer. GMB members at […]
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Strikes stepped up at Southern Rail
RAIL UNION Aslef has announced that 87 per cent of its drivers at Southern Rail voted to strike. These strikes
Sparks fly at Crossrail
CONSTRUCTION WORKERS at the Crossrail site in Tottenham Court Road took two days of unofficial strike action on 30 November
Durham teaching assistants vote for strike action
TEACHING ASSISTANTS employed by Durham County Council have voted overwhelmingly for strike action against the imposition of new contracts that
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Trade unions could be Corbyn’s biggest ally – or his most serious opponent
By a UNISON activist THE NEW Tory government is unleashing a new series of attacks on working class people and their
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Support the teachers’ strike to defend education
By Jeremy Dewar The boycotts of the ridiculous and cruel tests of children as young as five by parents earlier
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Grangemouth boss punishes surrender by announcing 200 job cuts
By Marcus Halaby It is an often-repeated truism that giving in to bullies only encourages them. Workers at the Grangemouth
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125th Anniversary of the Matchworkers' Strike
On the 125th anniversary of the matchwomen’s strike in the East End of London, Joy Macready examines the strike’s origins
Socialist Party backs McCluskey, candidate of the Unite bureaucracy
RANK AND FILE candidate Jerry Hicks has now secured 84 validated branch nominations – with several days still to go
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The British General Strike of 1926 – Part Two
In Workers Power 367 we saw how the Communist Part of Great Britain (CPGB) initiated the powerful rank and file
The left and the general strike
By Andy Yorke A debate has opened up in the labour movement since the vote at the Brighton TUC to
Fighting for the right to strike
Jeremy Dewar recounts how the anti-union laws shackled the unions and calls for defiance
1926: How the TUC betrayed the General Strike
The 1926 General Strike is rich in lessons for today. Dave Stockton looks at how the ruling class prepared for
Pentonville Five: when dockers fought the law and won
Forty years ago, four London dockers were arrested and held in north London’s Pentonville Prison. The next morning a fifth
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The Great Unrest: How militant miners created a movement of the rank and file
In part two of this commemorative article, Dave Stockton looks at how the miners built the first rank and file
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The Great Unrest: Organising the Rank and File 1910-1914
In this timely commemorative article, Dave Stockton looks at the lessons from the great working class struggles before World War
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Pensions dispute and the left: a tale of backsliding and cover-up
THE 28 MARCH strike by London schools and colleges showed just how impressive a nation-wide strike could have been. Around
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The 1972 battle of Saltley Gate: “close the gates!”
On the fortieth anniversary of the Battle of Saltley Gate Norman Goodwin, then a shop steward at GKN Salisbury Transmissions
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Pensions: left leaders in retreat — only the organised rank and file can restart the fight
By Mark Booth AFTER A TURBULENT week of union executive meetings, 300 militants packed into Friends Meeting House for an
The great building workers’ strike of 1972
The building workers’ strike holds lessons on the dangers of Broad Leftism for union activists today