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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
Against feminism, for the working class
05 Mar 2015
Geraldine Duffy writes for International Women's Day in March 1985
Learning the lessons
19 Feb 2015
Women were central to the struggle in the miners' Great Strike, says Mark Fischer
Still not too late
12 Feb 2015
It was necessary to confront the defeatism of the left head on at the end of the miners' strike, says Mark Fischer
In mortal danger
05 Feb 2015
At the end of the miners strike in 1984-85 the question became whether it was possible to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
Facing up to reality
29 Jan 2015
The left found it hard to accept defeat in 1985
Democratic organisation needed
22 Jan 2015
Stan Keable of Labour Party Marxists attended the January 17 Reclaim the Union meeting of Unison activists
More organised than the men
22 Jan 2015
Mark Fischer reflects on an interview he had with Jean Davis in 1985.
Building the union is no lottery
15 Jan 2015
The leadership of the PCS have trivialised the struggle to save the union, reports Simon Wells
A death in Wales
15 Jan 2015
The miners needed to defend themselves. Mark Fischer discusses how difficult that was.
Left helps screw it up
08 Jan 2015
The left failed the test of the Miners Strike, argues Mark Fischer
Ramsay MacKinnock and Judas Willis - Dump them!
11 Dec 2014
The tone of this Jack Conrad front page from the December 1984 issue of The Leninist reflects the urgent situation the miners found themselves in at the end of the year. With the divisions in the union’s ranks hardening and the lack of effective solidarity from the wider workers’ movement, the strike was approaching a crossroads. While there was still everything to fight for, there were some ominous storm clouds gathering
SACP splits unions down the middle
11 Dec 2014
Peter Manson reports on the expulsion of Cosatu’s biggest affiliate
Intensification or resolution?
04 Dec 2014
As the miner's strike approached a crossroads, president of Kent NUM Malcolm Pitt spoke to The Leninist
The beginning of new unionism
20 Nov 2014
Louise Raw Striking a light: the Bryant and May match women and their place in history Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011, pp300, £17.99
Strikes, smoke bombs and tear gas
20 Nov 2014
Toby Abse reports on the latest union action and the autonomists’ social strike