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
Workers’ unity in Europe
02 Mar 1995
An absence of leadership
02 Mar 1995
Maggie Crow, a Unison steward at Christie hospital in Manchester, talks about the prospects for a fightback among nurses
Organise against the pay scandal!
02 Mar 1995
With whole sections of workers furious over low pay and threats to their jobs, anger is mounting against the bosses’ pay perks. Major is promising ‘action’ to curb them, but all is not as it seems
Build solidarity with sacked busworkers
23 Feb 1995
Bill Horslen, one of the sacked busworkers from Chelmsford, reports on the Badgerline group delegate conference of the Transport and General Workers Union
Workers’ action forces French climbdown
23 Feb 1995
Forcing Richard to budge
23 Feb 1995
Nurses condemn 1% pay insult
23 Feb 1995
Organise to fight back together
United fight against 1%
23 Feb 1995
In the face of a storm of protest from healthworkers the Tories are pleading poverty. They are desperate to fund their tax cut bribes at the expense of our pay packets and public services. Their attempt to split the workforce up around the country through the divisive local negotiations tactic must be responded to by a united national campaign
Royal Mail attacks right to strike
09 Feb 1995
Beating them at their own game
09 Feb 1995
An article in Socialist Worker (January 28) criticised Bill Morris and the Transport and General Workers Union leadership in the Badgerline bus dispute in Chelmsford for appealing to public opinion rather than for solidarity action - a well know bureaucrat’s cop-out. But it particularly criticised the free bus service the union was running. We spoke to Bill Horslen, one of the sacked workers and a Labour councillor, about the dispute and how the bus service can be used to gain solidarity action
Running for profit
09 Feb 1995
Postal workers show the way
26 Jan 1995
Royal Mail workers forced management to reinstate a sacked colleague earlier this month