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
Spread the French disease: Fight benefit cuts
14 Dec 1995
Pilot schemes for Job Seekers Allowance begin in January. Job centre workers are linking their fight against attacks on pay to a fight against JSA. The Labour Party promises worse cuts and workfare to boot. So how can the mounting attack on pay and services be resisted?
Walsall ‘socialists’ booted out
07 Dec 1995
Ucatt’s scab convenor
07 Dec 1995
Employment service strike
07 Dec 1995
Workers in France show the way
07 Dec 1995
160,000 marched in Paris this week and more workers looked set to join the strikes this Thursday
Postal workers on the offensive
30 Nov 1995
Failed approach
30 Nov 1995
Dave Hulme reviews 'Socialists in the trade unions' by Alex Callinicos (Bookmarks, pp79)
Against repression in Argentina
30 Nov 1995
Brent sackings
30 Nov 1995
Attacks on workers pay for budget bribe
30 Nov 1995
TUC general secretary John Monks was mute on the continued attacks that lay behind the feeble budget tax bribe. No wonder Clarke thinks he can get away with it
Tupe sackings
23 Nov 1995
Ford workers show the way
23 Nov 1995
Merseyside strike begins to bite
16 Nov 1995
Challenge to Labour
16 Nov 1995
Arthur Scargill’s call for a Socialist Labour Party to challenge Blair’s party at the next election has struck a chord with thousands in our movement
“We’re British workers now - but we’ll fight like Turks”
09 Nov 1995
On Saturday, November 4, Mark Fischer spoke to a young striker on JJ’s picket line