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
PCS strike: PCS goes it alone
21 Mar 2013
Civil servants are striking for a decent pay rise and to defend pay and conditions. But, asks Dave Vincent, will the current strategy win?
Lee Rock: Campaign against victimisation takes off
20 Mar 2013
Tina Becker reports on the campaign to reinstate Sheffield PCS union rep and Weekly Worker supporter Lee Rock
Jerry Hicks interview: Not more of the same
07 Mar 2013
The Provisional Central Committee of the CPGB is urging support for Jerry Hicks, the rank-and-file candidate in the Unite election. Peter Manson spoke to him about his campaign and perspectives
PCS union: Where is the strategy?
24 Jan 2013
The PCS leadership seems to be up for a fight over pay, says Dave Vincent. But can it persuade the members that they can win alone?
NUM in court: Arthur Scargill’s dacha debacle
10 Jan 2013
David Douglass comments on the decline and fall of Arthur Scargill's reputation
Tyneside history: A legacy of struggle
06 Dec 2012
David Douglass reviews: Joseph M Fewster, 'The keelmen of Tyneside: labour organisation and conflict in the north-east coal industry 1600-1830', The Boydell Press, 2011, pp232, £60
Middlesborough review: Rapid development and workers’ struggle
29 Nov 2012
David Douglass reviews: Minoru Yasumoto, 'The rise of a Victorian ironopolis: Middlesbrough and regional industrialisation', Boydell Press, 2011, pp250, £60
Socialism 2012: Labour: for a ‘civil war’
08 Nov 2012
Is TUSC the new Labour Party? Mark Fischer reports from a Socialism 2012 session on Labour
TUC Demo: Union lefts rely on general strike strategy
25 Oct 2012
Saturdays TUC demonstration showed that there is a burning desire to fight, writes Peter Manson. But ending the age of austerity requires a governmental alternative not on offer from Ed Miliband
Progress: Capitalism’s Trojan horse
11 Oct 2012
Attacks on Progress should be welcomed, but should the left vote for Aslefs rule change? Stan Keable of Labour Party Marxists looks at the issues
One nation: Labour turns blue
04 Oct 2012
Ed Miliband invoked the legacy of Benjamin Disraeli in order to embrace the agenda of Blue Labour, argues Paul Demarty
Partly off one knee
13 Sep 2012
The Trade Union Congress decision to consider the option of a general strike represents a small step forward, writes Mike Macnair
Conspiracy, betrayal and flying pickets
05 Jul 2012
On the 40th anniversary of the 1972 building workers strike, Laurence Humphries, a supporter of the National Shop Stewards Network, gives his version of events
A bus drivers crisis
21 Jun 2012
On the eve of the June 22 London bus drivers strike Gerry Downing reports on the plight of one not so untypical worker
Reality behind the fighting talk
31 May 2012
The May 23-25 annual conference exposed the weaknesses of Britain's biggest civil service union, says Tina Becker