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
Awakened to the class struggle
17 Jul 2014
Mark Fischer introduces another Leninist reprint; Rebecca Sachs on the political transformation of women involved in the miner's strike
Enough bluster and bullshit
17 Jul 2014
Last week saw a major strike of public-sector workers. Daniel Harvey looks at the aftermath
ANC hold on unions weakens
11 Jul 2014
The metalworkers are seeking to emulate the success of the platinum strikers, writes Peter Manson
Countering illusions
05 Jun 2014
During the 20th anniversary of the miner's Great Strike, we have been reprinting articles from The Leninist, forerunner of the paper you're reading now
The real price of coal
22 May 2014
Privatisation and intensified competition has driven the attack on mining safety standards everywhere, writes David Douglass of the National Union of Mineworkers
Miners: Crisis of leadership
22 May 2014
A reprint from the Leninist, forerunner of the WW, on the crucial need for politics
Miners strike: Militants and scabs
10 Apr 2014
Harry Paterson Look back in anger: the miners’ strike in Nottinghamshire 30 years on Five Leaves Publishing, 2014, pp298, £9.99
Unions merger: Questions for Serwotka
10 Apr 2014
A Unite-PCS merger is on the cards. PCS militant Dave Vincent examines the options
How Thatcher plotted our defeat
27 Mar 2014
Granville Williams (ed) Settling scores: the media, the police and the miners’ strike Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, pp139, £6.99
Miners' strike: Battle lines drawn
06 Mar 2014
We reprint below our first response to the miners’ strike from an edition of The Leninist
Labour: Unions vote to be distanced
06 Mar 2014
Delegate Charles Gradnitzer reports on Labour’s special conference
Miners' strike: The gathering storm
27 Feb 2014
In the year of the 30th anniversary of the start of the great miners' strike of 1984/5, we present the first of a series of contemporary extracts from our then factional journal The Leninist
South Africa: Official ‘communists’ split unions
20 Feb 2014
It is impossible to overstate the crisis facing the SACP, writes Peter Manson
Labour: Everything to play for
20 Feb 2014
The fight for the soul of the Labour Party has only just begun. Stan Keable of Labour Party Marxists reports on the Collins review
South Africa: Opposition in disarray
13 Feb 2014
Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, is facing jail for fraud