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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
Loyalists ready to walk
28 May 2015
With Marikana about to dominate the headlines once more, Peter Manson reports on the ongoing Cosatu crisis
Yellow union given the boot
21 May 2015
Car workers say, ‘Enough is enough’. Esen Uslu reports on the mood of optimism
Contradictions laid bare
23 Apr 2015
There are two sides to South Africa’s ‘vibrant emerging market economy’. Peter Manson points to the underlying causes of the xenophobia
Lessons of the Great Strike
09 Apr 2015
Recognising the nature of the defeat at the end of the Miners' Strike was hard for the left, argues Mark Fischer
Split that need not have happened
09 Apr 2015
The criminal actions of the South African Communist Party have severely weakened Cosatu, writes Peter Manson
Impervious to lessons
02 Apr 2015
Familiar bureaucratic maneuvering brought an end to the Miner's Strike, writes Mark Fischer
How could we have won?
19 Mar 2015
Former NUM South Wales area executive member Ian Isaac looks back to the miners’ Great Strike
One year of the miners’ strike
19 Mar 2015
Mark Fischer presents two articles originally printed in The Leninist at the end of the miners' strike
Meaningless noise
12 Mar 2015
Workers Power has made a strange new ally. Daniel Harvey reports
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