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
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
Humble petition or militant action?
15 Jul 2010
There are two sides to Tolpuddle, argues Mike Macnair
Pension con job
01 Jul 2010
Working life should end in material comfort, demands James Turley
Holmes and Bannister divide the left vote
03 Jun 2010
The current election for Unison general secretary exposes the failure of the left. Will Pragnell looks at the manoeuvrings of Dave Prentis and the right and urges the left to unite
Socialist Party consolidates its grip
27 May 2010
Dave Vincent reports on the conference of the civil service union
See no evil, hear no evil
27 May 2010
Ben Lewis is astounded by the PCS call for the state and employers to be granted more power over the workforce in the name of anti-fascism