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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
Fighting talk
03 May 2007
Phil Kent reports on the 'Organising for Fighting Unions' rally on May 1
PCSU - fight to win
26 Apr 2007
On May Day the Public and Commercial Services Union is calling out its 280,000 civil service members on a 24-hour strike. Lee Rock, national secretary of the PCSU Socialist Caucus, explains the issues
Post workers under attack
26 Apr 2007
At the end of last week, Royal Mail announced that it would accelerate the privatisation of crown post offices by transferring 85 of them to the tender mercies of WH Smith. Initially, 70 are to due to go this year. Jim Moody reports
Giving internationalism new meaning
12 Apr 2007
The Liverpool dockers' March for Social Justice took place 10 years ago, on April 12 1997. Chris Knight of the London Dockers Support Group, who acted as the main link with the Reclaim the Streets movement, looks back at the dockers' historic fight
Step up pressure on union lefts to get John McDonnell on the ballot
22 Mar 2007
If John McDonnell's name were to appear on the ballot paper to decide the Labour Party's new leader, that would bring with it the possibility of revitalising the entire left. However, thanks in large part to the cowardice of the left union bureaucrats, not enough Labour MPs have come under pressure to nominate him, says Jim Moody
Thieves at large
15 Feb 2007
Jim Moody analyses Royal Mail's decision to exclude new staff from schemes that ensure a retirement payout based on a percentage of a member's final salary
Revisiting Warwick
01 Feb 2007
Labour is turning to the unions once again to ease its financial problems. But will the union bureaucrats write more blank cheques? Alan Stevens calls for a political fightback
PCSU: All out January 31
25 Jan 2007
Lee Rock, national secretary of PCSU Socialist Caucus, reports on the forthcoming 24-hour strike
Decriminalise sex work
04 Jan 2007
How should the left relate to sex workers? Following the murder of five prostitutes in Ipswich, Peter Manson spoke to Ana Lopes of the International Union of Sex Workers (www.iusw.org)
PCSU left split
16 Nov 2006
Lee Rock, national secretary of the PCSU Socialist Caucus, explains the split in the Left Unity group
What happens next?
16 Nov 2006
Public and Commercial Services Union militant Tony Wood gives his view of the conference
Many questions, no answers
16 Nov 2006
Last weekend saw the SWP attempt to win union militants to Respect. Alan Stevens reports on the Organising for Fighting Unions conference
Class resistance and conspiracy
26 Oct 2006
David Douglass reviews Margaret Hutcherson's Let no wheels turn: the wrecking of the Flying Scotsman, 1926 TUPS Books, 2006, pp91, £6.95
Poles apart, or workers' unity?
07 Sep 2006
Ewa Jasiewicz is a Transport and General Workers Union organiser in the north-west with particular responsibility for the recruitment of Polish migrant workers. She spoke to Peter Manson
What should have been done
15 Jun 2006
Jack Conrad concludes his series of articles on the general strike