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
A Chartist trade union party?
01 Jun 2006
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group looks forward to a synthesis of reform and revolution
Virtues and vices
25 May 2006
Jack Conrad pays tribute to the role of the CPGB in 1926. But as well as heroism there were limitations
A study in bureaucratic inertia
18 May 2006
Jack Conrad shows that, while the Tory government assiduously and ruthlessly prepared for the 1926 general strike, the TUC was content to pass left-sounding resolutions
Days of black and red
11 May 2006
In the second article on the general strike and its turbulent background Jack Conrad looks at the delayed birth of the CPGB and the course of events from black Friday to red Friday
Members need political strategy
04 May 2006
Lee Rock, national secretary of PCSU Socialist Caucus, reports on the May 2-3 strike of tens of thousands of civil servants
What we need
04 May 2006
For the first time in many years there was actually some kind of showing from the trade unions on the London May Day march. Alan Fox reports
80 years since the general strike - From world war to councils of action
04 May 2006
Jack Conrad begins a series of articles examining the 1926 general strike
Show of union militancy
30 Mar 2006
Pensions dispute points to lack of politics, says Alan Stevens
Basra quagmire
23 Feb 2006
Yassamine Mather (Iran Bulletin Middle East Forum and Critique) calls for solidarity with the Basra oil workers
Representation - crisis unresolved
26 Jan 2006
As expected, the RMT's 'Crisis in working class representation' conference was almost entirely a gathering of the organised left, writes Peter Manson. The union bureaucracy has no intention of founding a new political party
Decision time for SWP
17 Nov 2005
The Socialist Workers Party is still refusing to take responsibility for two of their members who voted for the scandalous pension deal in the PCSU: Martin John has resigned from the party and no action has been taken against Sue Bond. Lee Rock, national secretary of the PCSU Socialist Caucus, reports
Don't break the link
05 Feb 2004
Marcus Ström calls for increased, not decreased, union affiliation to the Labour Party
Class war and damned lies
05 Feb 2004
Dave Douglass (branch secretary Hatfield NUM) reviews: Janice Sutherland, 'Strike: when Britain went to war', Channel 4, Saturday January 24 Steven Condie, 'The miners' strike', BBC2, Tuesday January 27
SP on the rack after climbdown
05 Feb 2004
Pressure is mounting on the Socialist Party-dominated leadership of the Public and Commercial Services Union following the decision of the department of work and pensions (DWP) executive to suspend strike action last week reports Lee Rock
Break with yellow unions
11 Dec 2003
Houzan Mahmoud of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq reports on how one British left group continues to side with the Ba'athist oppressors who once ruled Iraq