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
Dockers end fight for jobs
29 Jan 1998
This defeat proves once again that the key to winning workers’ struggles is to go beyond trade union forms
Black section uproar
18 Dec 1997
Peter Manson reports on the SLP congress
Three men, 3,000 votes
18 Dec 1997
Delegates at the December 13-14 congress of the Socialist Labour Party in London's Conway Hall were stunned to learn that they were powerless to change the party’s policies or constitution. The block vote of a single trade union affiliate swamped those of 114 Constituency SLPs
One route?
11 Dec 1997
Ronnie McDonald was general secretary of offshore union Oilc from 1992 until his retirement from the post in January. Peter Manson asked him about his decision to join the SLP earlier this year
STUC shuns dockers
27 Nov 1997
Students resist
20 Nov 1997
SLP calls union activist conference
06 Nov 1997
Simon Harvey of the SLP
Morris in docker ballot fiasco
30 Oct 1997
Blair’s crusade against democracy
02 Oct 1997
Everybody loves him - the media barons, the union bureaucrats, the establishment. Who will wipe the grin off Blair’s face?
Dockers call for solidarity action
02 Oct 1997
No profits in safety
25 Sep 1997
‘Fight to transform TUC’
25 Sep 1997
Prominent members of the Socialist Labour Party give their reactions to Arthur Scargill’s ‘alternative trade union centre’
Unity against the bureaucrats
25 Sep 1997
As thousands of workers march through Liverpool to show their solidarity with the sacked dockers, most trade union leaders stay away. But does that mean that militants should aim to form an alternative TUC?
No debate at TUC
18 Sep 1997
Joe Marino, general secretary of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union and a member of the Socialist Labour Party, spoke to the Weekly Worker about last week’s Trade Union Congress