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
No to the race to the bottom
27 May 2010
Peter Manson looks at the prospects for the BA strike
Reality gap
06 May 2010
Laurie Smith attended London's TU May Day march
Class consciousness rekindled
06 May 2010
Esen Uslu reports on the massive May Day demonstration in Istanbul
Keeping quiet on party politics
15 Apr 2010
Dave McAllister reports on the Saturday April 10 demonstration against cuts
It is not enough to call for abolition of anti-union laws
08 Apr 2010
Capitalism and the rule of law are incompatible with political democracy and free association, writes Mike Macnair
International fightback, not 'race to the bottom'
25 Mar 2010
Elementary workplace struggles demand to be generalised, writes James Turley
Prepare carefully for fresh action
11 Mar 2010
Dave Vincent fears that the PCS NEC has backed itself into a corner
Sacked workers step up protest
04 Feb 2010
Workers are resisting attempts to make them pay for dismantling the state's tobacco monopoly. Esen Uslu reports
Winning members that Left Unity cannot reach
14 Jan 2010
Dave Vincent reports on the re-election of Mark Serwotka as general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union
Union bosses refuse to fight
17 Dec 2009
Irish trade unions are tied to the establishment, writes Anne Mc Shane
Corus ructions
17 Dec 2009
Steve Cooke reports on steel job losses in Redcar
Anarchist bombs and working class struggle
10 Dec 2009
David Douglass reviews Louis Adamic's 'Dynamite: the story of class violence in America', AK Press, 2009, pp352, £13
Statement by Iran Khodro car workers
10 Dec 2009
Issued December 6, the day before the clashes
Undocumented workers victimised by Unite
26 Nov 2009
In September 2009 the union Unite ordered the Latin American Workers Association to vacate without notice the office it had provided within its southeast region HQ. Its comrades explain the background
Political response needed
26 Nov 2009
James Turley expects a sudden rise in the pitch of industrial struggle after the general election