Defending trans rights at work
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Unions are increasingly paying 100% strike pay. Sounds good — but there are downsides
The delay in Labour’s Employment Rights Bill, originally promised as a flagship piece of legislation aimed at strengthening workers’ rights, is a betrayal of the workers and trade unions who put the party into power.
The Tories are up in arms, demanding Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner intervenes in the Birmingham bin strike. Their aim? Convene a Cobra meeting and break the strike by drafting in private sector scab labour.
By Tim Nailsea The trade union movement in Britain saw something of a strike wave in 2022-23, in response to
ArbetarmaktSwedish section of the League for the Fifth International The following statement was published by our comrades and sent to
Labour’s plan to extend workers’ rights will be gutted by ‘consultation’ with bosses unless trade unions fight back
The focus of the Palestine solidarity movement has shifted towards boycotting arms for Israel, but to succceed it needs international organisation.
By KD Tait In early September Keir Starmer reshuffled the shadow cabinet ready for a general election campaign, stuffing it
An Open Letter to union activists and the left on the next steps for our movement
The TUC has fined the NEU £153,000, bang in the middle of their strike campaign.
Editorial June 2023, No. 404
By Jeremy Dewar STRIKES—ESPECIALLY a prolonged strike wave like the present—draw huge number of trade union members into activity, and
THE WORKING class is facing the most serious attack on its living standards since the introduction of austerity after the
INFLATION HAS reached its highest level since the 1980s. The November rate for the UK was 10.67%. Between September 2021
AS IMPORTANT as they are, these strikes are not the immediate answer for the whole working class. Given weak levels
Tim Nailsea reviews A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organising and the Fight for Democracy by Jane McAlevey
Labour’s lead has narrowed to just four points.
Dave Stocking Radical Lambeth: 1978-1991 by Simon Hannah