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
Turning retreat into attack
23 Mar 2023
Why are so many trade union officials settling for below-inflation deals? Kevin Bean says unions must be democratised, and renewed strength used to beat Rishi Sunak’s latest anti-trade union legislation
Striking for pay restoration
16 Mar 2023
Richard Galen welcomes the growing influence of the left amongst junior doctors and how this had led to a surge in BMA membership
Picket lines and ballot box
09 Feb 2023
Mass strikes, soaring food and energy prices, Tory sleaze scandals - all speak of the return of the ‘British disease’. Eddie Ford says that is why sections of the mainstream media could well back Sir Keir in 2024, and why we need our own political alternative
Oil workers join protests
26 Jan 2023
All manner of tiny cracks are opening up at the top levels of the theocracy. Yassamine Mather looks behind the often arcane disputes
Safe space for Zionism
26 Jan 2023
The left should and will reject Rebecca Tuck’s report into ‘anti-Semitism’ - but our own errors make it hard to fight back, argues Paul Demarty
Taking the next step
12 Jan 2023
The government has no clear strategy. However, to fight back we need more than trade union militancy, argues Kevin Bean
NHS in meltdown
05 Jan 2023
The Tories have a barely hidden agenda to wreck the post-1945 health service. But James Linney warns against trusting Sir Keir’s alternative government
Principled partyist strategy
08 Dec 2022
Four out of five House ‘socialists’ scabbed. Parker McQueeney of the Marxist Unity Group brings to light the deep divisions within the DSA revealed by the recent railworkers disputes
Workers’ mass protests
01 Dec 2022
Yassamine Mather reports on strikes and protests in Iran
Victory claims under scrutiny
24 Nov 2022
Why hide the truth? Vernon Price discusses an unusual contribution in the latest Pre-Conference Bulletin
Bleak expectations
17 Nov 2022
With Rishi Sunak probably having little chance of winning the next election and Keir Starmer waiting in the wings, we should expect Austerity 3.0, writes Eddie Ford
Highway to misery
10 Nov 2022
The Tories are coming after us again with ‘Austerity 2.0’, writes Eddie Ford. But resistance is mounting in the form of increased strike action
Upping the fightback
20 Oct 2022
Mike Macnair supports the call for activists to take the financial resourcing of sustained strikes seriously
Art attack
20 Oct 2022
Young activists from Just Stop Oil have been castigated by the usual parade of ranting tabloid hacks and LBC anchors for defacing a Van Gogh. But, argues Paul Demarty, the stunt highlights the limits of direct-action groups
Plan for sabotage
13 Oct 2022
Though they are on the ropes, it is clear that the NHS is not safe in Tory hands. James Linney puts Thérèse Coffey’s proposals under close examination