Defending trans rights at work
Organise to defend our colleagues
Get paid to go on strike?
Unions are increasingly paying 100% strike pay. Sounds good — but there are downsides
Employment Rights Bill: Labour waters down their proposals
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.
Birmingham bin strike: Test for Labour
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.
Trade Unions: Crisis of leadership in the rank and file
By Tim Nailsea The trade union movement in Britain saw something of a strike wave in 2022-23, in response to
Sweden: Support the dockers’ arms blockade!
ArbetarmaktSwedish section of the League for the Fifth International The following statement was published by our comrades and sent to
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
Boycott Israel: workers’ sanctions are the way forward
The focus of the Palestine solidarity movement has shifted towards boycotting arms for Israel, but to succceed it needs international organisation.
Starmer sets out his stall – for the bosses
By KD Tait In early September Keir Starmer reshuffled the shadow cabinet ready for a general election campaign, stuffing it
Organise the rank and file: an open letter to union activists and the left
An Open Letter to union activists and the left on the next steps for our movement
Bureaucrats behaving badly
The TUC has fined the NEU £153,000, bang in the middle of their strike campaign.
With dodgy deals looming, the rank and file must organise to seize control of the unions
Editorial June 2023, No. 404
The trade union rank and file today
By Jeremy Dewar STRIKES—ESPECIALLY a prolonged strike wave like the present—draw huge number of trade union members into activity, and
All out on 1 February!
THE WORKING class is facing the most serious attack on its living standards since the introduction of austerity after the
Defend workers’ incomes against inflation
INFLATION HAS reached its highest level since the 1980s. The November rate for the UK was 10.67%. Between September 2021
Rebuilding our movement
AS IMPORTANT as they are, these strikes are not the immediate answer for the whole working class. Given weak levels
Organising from above: Review of A Collective Bargain by Jane McAlevey
Tim Nailsea reviews A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organising and the Fight for Democracy by Jane McAlevey
‘Which side are you on?’ Labour has a crisis of leadership
Labour’s lead has narrowed to just four points.
The limits of municipal socialism: A review of Radical Lambeth by Simon Hannah
Dave Stocking Radical Lambeth: 1978-1991 by Simon Hannah