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
Unforgiven
22 Feb 2001
Safety demands workers' control
23 Nov 2000
After Hatfield rail safety demands workers' control
26 Oct 2000
Passion for change
16 Dec 1999
John Walsh reviews 'All power to the imagination' by Dave Douglass
Back Livingstone
18 Nov 1999
SLP abolishes annual congress
11 Nov 1999
CPB in merger talks
Arthur’s coup d’état
04 Nov 1999
Simon Harvey of the SLP
Safety not profit
28 Oct 1999
Back Livingstone
21 Oct 1999
The contest for London mayor will open up possibilities for the left
Workers’ control
14 Oct 1999
Ladbroke Grove disaster
Blair realigns UK politics
07 Oct 1999
Labour Party centenary
Disappointed sectarian
23 Sep 1999
Dot Gibson responds to Mark Metcalf’s criticisms of Steve Hedley (Weekly Worker August 26)
Informer Metcalf’s infantile disorder
16 Sep 1999
Steve Hedley replies to Mark Metcalf (Weekly Worker August 26), who argued that comrade Hedley’s dismissal from the railways could have been prevented, and that he had now “turned his back” on his supporters by accepting a union official’s job with Ucatt
Could Steve Hedley have kept his job?
26 Aug 1999
In July 1998 over 100 maintenance workers took strike action in defence of sacked RMT shop steward Steve Hedley. The strike was defeated and Hedley remained sacked. With trade union struggles at an all-time low and strike figures at the lowest level ever recorded, it would seem that, at the moment, the employers are ‘too strong’. The case of Steve Hedley would appear to back such views. But did it? Mark Metcalf gives his opinion