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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
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
Organise the militant minority
06 Nov 2014
The attacks on the miners were aimed at breaking organised labour in general; but union bureaucrats failed to rise to the challenge of building mass solidarity. Jack Conrad argued for a rank-and-file movement in this Leninist reprint
Class struggle intensifies
06 Nov 2014
Toby Abse reports on both verbal and physical clashes, as workers resist the latest attacks from ‘Italy’s Tony Blair’
Jack Collins: We could swamp them
30 Oct 2014
In 1984 The Leninist interviewed Jack Collins, area secretary of Kent NUM who went on to become disillusioned with the CPGB leadership
Marching in defence of article 18
30 Oct 2014
Last weekend’s mass mobilisation in Rome was inspiring, writes Toby Abse. But will trade union militancy be enough?
TUC demo: Boost to confidence
23 Oct 2014
Looking to a Labour government for salvation is a hopeless perspective, argues Peter Manson
Unison left: Carry on regardless
16 Oct 2014
As the employers stood firm in the local government dispute, not unexpectedly the union leaders buckled. But the left has no answers, writes Will Pragnell