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
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
Unison witch hunt
01 Jul 1999
What kind of unity?
17 Jun 1999
Reclaim Our Rights
Unison pulls plug
03 Jun 1999
Tameside careworkers
Socialist Party split - Merseyside’s view, part 2
25 Mar 1999
The Merseyside Socialists, who recently left or were suspended from the Socialist Party in England and Wales, continue their critique of the leadership
Devoted to his class
04 Feb 1999
Obituary: Mick McGahey 1925-1999
Millbank in control
08 Oct 1998
Labour Party conference
TUC on its knees
24 Sep 1998
Blair may have sent a batch of his ministers to last week’s TUC. But his plans for the realignment of British politics include the complete marginalisation of the unions
SWP in practice
30 Jul 1998
Bosses’ dirty tricks
23 Jul 1998
Bosses are attempting to intimidate RMT activists. As part of this campaign, they have singled out Steve Hedley, a longstanding RMT militant, for intimidation. The Railworkers Rank and File Campaign reports
Campaign struggles for momentum
09 Jul 1998
Simon Harvey of the SLP
Tameside solidarity
02 Jul 1998
Union strains aid Scargill
25 Jun 1998
Minimum wage