General strike

Can the unions beat the cuts?

We need mass strikes to beat the cuts, argues Jeremy Dewar. So how can we get them?

Workers Power  ·  30 May 2011

CWU conference calls for 24 hour general strike 'before its too late'

The TUC came under pressure today to call a 24-hour general strike against the coalition government’s all-out assault on workers and future generations “before it’s too late”, writes Louise Nousratpour at morningstaronline.co.uk Read more…

Workers Power  ·  24 May 2011

All out for 30 June!

THE FIGHT against the cuts is taking a big step forward on 30 June, with a string of unions now pledging to shut the country down in a mass public sector strike, writes Jeremy Drinkall

Workers Power  ·  26 April 2011

PCS: time to move beyond one-day strikes

The Public and Commercial Services Union has played a leading role in calling for the co-ordinated public sector strike on 30 June, writes Rebecca Allan, PCS rep

Workers Power  ·  26 April 2011

Tower Hamlets workers throw their weight behind call for general strike

Teachers and council workers from Tower Hamlets called on their leaders to organise general strike action today in a mass rally after 2,000 trade unionists, joined by the local community marched against cuts. Council workers in purple Unison jackets were joined by school banners, behind which marched school children, parents and lots of teachers carrying […]

Workers Power  ·  30 March 2011

“No one’s talking about a general strike”

There is a serious debate going on within the movement about how to beat the cuts, write Jeremy Drinkall and Richard Brenner. Different strategies are being proposed but there is one thing that the TUC and Tories certainly agree on – nobody is talking about a general strike (or are they?)

Workers Power  ·  25 March 2011

Editorial: All together now

Over the next four years the Tories and the Liberal Democrats want to destroy the welfare state as we know it, writes editor Simon Hardy

Workers Power  ·  25 March 2011

Bring down the Tories? Yes we can!

Mandate? No WAY. Cameron and Clegg do not have the voters’ backing for their vicious cuts package – the deepest in British history. Their Coalition only has a majority in Parliament because of Lib Dem support, and the Lib Dems only won votes because they promised to oppose the cuts. What’s more, no one voted […]

Workers Power  ·  25 March 2011

"Who's afraid of the general strike" | Jeremy Drinkall's industrial overview

“No one was talking about a general strike.” This is how Brendan Barber opened his account of the 28 January TUC summit to a BBC radio interviewer. How odd, I wonder, how many other people start a report with a denial? It reminded me of Len McCluskey’s article in The Guardian just before Christmas. He […]

Workers Power  ·  06 February 2011

A general strike is the way to beat this government

The November-December demonstrations by school and university students blew away the stifling atmosphere that had built up within the Labour movement like a cold but bracing wind. So when young people stormed the Tory HQ and then carried on mobilising for over a month despite hysterical witch hunting by the media and violent police repression […]

Workers Power  ·  03 February 2011

The fight for a general strike today

Dave Stockton looks in depth at the call for a general strike in Britain today

Workers Power  ·  01 January 2011

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