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
Politics, not voluntarism
19 Jan 2012
The left is trying to wish a mass fightback into existence. Peter Manson reports on the Unite the Resistance 'emergency conference'
Oil struggle aborted
19 Jan 2012
Despite the ending of the protests, workers in Nigeria have demonstrated their potential power, writes Nick Rogers
Three-hour general strike forces concessions
15 Dec 2011
Italian workers are determined to defend their pensions, writes Toby Abse
The disappearing slogan
08 Dec 2011
Whatever happened to 'All out, stay out'? Peter Manson investigates
Pushed as far as we will go
01 Dec 2011
David Douglass reviews Keith Pattison and David Peace 'No redemption: the 1984-85 miners' strike in the Durham coalfield' Flambard Press, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2010, pp104,
Forging unified class action
01 Dec 2011
Dave Vincent reports on the build-up to the big public sector strike
SUPPLEMENT: Classical Marxism and the general strike
24 Nov 2011
Appearances are everything
24 Nov 2011
Peter Manson reports on the SWP's obsession with numbers regarding its latest recruiting front
Unite behind the sparks
24 Nov 2011
Craft workers and labourers must find common cause, urges Gerry Downing
Carrot and stick
17 Nov 2011
Francis Maude's idiotic '15-minute strike' suggestion reveals a disquiet at the heart of the government, argues James Turley
Images of a slaughtered past
27 Oct 2011
David Douglass reviews Peter Tuffrey, Doncaster's collieries (Amberley Publishing, 2011, pp128,
They obeyed the rules
29 Sep 2011
Mark Fischer busts the myths of the Jarrow Crusade
Four victims of industrial demise
22 Sep 2011
David Douglass looks at the background to last week's tragic events at Gleision pit in south Wales
Side with working class or, in the name of god, go
15 Sep 2011
The TUC congress represented a positive step towards united working class resistance against coalition attacks, writes Peter Manson
Market logic challenged by eight-hour general strike
08 Sep 2011
This week the increasingly moribund government of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has faced simultaneous attacks on two fronts: from the speculators and the European Central Bank, on the one hand; and from a general strike by the most militant section of Italy's organised working class, on the other. Toby Abse reports