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
Tactics and the Great Strike
10 Mar 2011
Ian Isaac responds to David Douglass's review of his book, 'When we were miners'
The fear of unity
16 Dec 2010
Eager for ammunition, the SWP has delighted in the NSSN's looming split. James Turley reports
Tyneside bairn goes ghost dancing
09 Dec 2010
Tom Pickard reviews David Douglass's 'Ghost dancers: the miners' last generation part 3: Stardust and coaldust' Christiebooks, 2010, pp540, £12.95
Unison and the politics of class
09 Dec 2010
Why does a leading member of Socialist Resistance give her backing to a free-market attack on the disabled and elderly? Tony Greenstein reports on Unison's support for the 'personalisation' of care
A Militant take on the Great Strike of 1984-85
25 Nov 2010
David Douglass reviews Ian Isaacs's 'When we were miners' Ken Smith Press, 2010, pp180, £7.99
Good, bad, and middling Trots
18 Nov 2010
Voting in the election to replace Derek Simpson as general secretary of Unite the Union ends on November 19. Gerry Downing reports on the attacks on the Jerry Hicks campaign from supporters of left bureaucrat Len McCluskey
Workers' protests continue despite pension law vote
28 Oct 2010
Mass conflict is leading to broader political conclusions, reports Jean-Michel Edwin
Equal pay feel-good
21 Oct 2010
Amanda MacLean reviews Nigel Cole's (director) 'Made in Dagenham', 2010 (on general release)
Comradeship and populist demagogy
21 Oct 2010
The media circus surrounding the rescued Chilean miners obscures the reality of naked capitalist exploitation, writes Eddie Ford
Build on TUC anti-cuts vote
16 Sep 2010
Jim Gilbert recognises a task for the whole movement
Class, blackened faces, and academic muddle
09 Sep 2010
David Douglass reviews Hester Barron's 'The 1926 miners' lockout: meanings of community in the Durham coalfield' Oxford, 2009, pp314, £65
They weren't all scabs
02 Sep 2010
David Douglass reviews Keith Stanley's 'Nottingham miners do strike' Nottingham Area NUM, pp124, £7
Break with ANC popular front
02 Sep 2010
The public sector strike victory has been won despite, not because of, the SACP, writes Peter Manson
Malevolent conspirator
26 Aug 2010
Toby Abse condemns the architect of the 'strategy of tension'
Jane Loftus syndrome
26 Aug 2010
Gerry Downing wonders why so many 'revolutionaries' cannot back the rank-and-file candidate in the election for general secretary of a major union