Democracy & State > Trade unions
Anarchist origins of the 'general strike' slogan
17 Mar 2011
We set up this debate in response to widespread calls from the Trotskyist left for the TUC to call a general strike against the cuts. This is Mike Macnair's opening
SUPPLEMENT: Classical Marxism and the general strike
24 Nov 2011
Appearances are everything
24 Nov 2011
Peter Manson reports on the SWP's obsession with numbers regarding its latest recruiting front
Unite behind the sparks
24 Nov 2011
Craft workers and labourers must find common cause, urges Gerry Downing
Carrot and stick
17 Nov 2011
Francis Maude's idiotic '15-minute strike' suggestion reveals a disquiet at the heart of the government, argues James Turley
Images of a slaughtered past
27 Oct 2011
David Douglass reviews Peter Tuffrey, Doncaster's collieries (Amberley Publishing, 2011, pp128,
They obeyed the rules
29 Sep 2011
Mark Fischer busts the myths of the Jarrow Crusade
Four victims of industrial demise
22 Sep 2011
David Douglass looks at the background to last week's tragic events at Gleision pit in south Wales
Side with working class or, in the name of god, go
15 Sep 2011
The TUC congress represented a positive step towards united working class resistance against coalition attacks, writes Peter Manson
Market logic challenged by eight-hour general strike
08 Sep 2011
This week the increasingly moribund government of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has faced simultaneous attacks on two fronts: from the speculators and the European Central Bank, on the one hand; and from a general strike by the most militant section of Italy's organised working class, on the other. Toby Abse reports
Giving up on Unison
04 Aug 2011
Members of the Socialist Party in England and Wales employed by two local councils in London have resigned from Britain's largest public sector union. Peter Manson sees a parallel in SPEW's abandonment of Labour
Union mergers need democracy
04 Aug 2011
With the RMT and TSSA moving towards a merger, Chris Strafford calls for democratic unity from below in the workers' movement
British jobs for British workers?
28 Jul 2011
The struggle for jobs at Bombardier must not be diverted by sectionalism or nationalism, urges Peter Manson
Still on outside
28 Jul 2011
Unions remain banned by Rupert Murdoch. Julia Owlerton reports on the NUJ's attempt to get back into News International and the inadequacy of the union left
Convenor hung out to dry
14 Jul 2011
AJ Byrne slates Unite's inaction and SWP vacillation
June 30: Bigger, better, more coordinated
07 Jul 2011
Rank and file pressure must be brought to bear not only within the unions, writes Michael Copestake, but on the Labour leadership too