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
Sack the Tories! Sack Blunkett! Dump the lot!
20 Apr 1995
This week the teachers have been denounced and threatened by Tory, Labour and union leaders alike. Teachers are right to respond to attacks on education with ballots for strike action. Demonstrators are right to harangue Blunkett after his disgusting promise to be more Tory than Tory in office. But we must go beyond the slogan ‘Sack the Tories’
United action against JSA
13 Apr 1995
The price of health
13 Apr 1995
Healthworkers enjoyed a short-lived ‘victory’ in their fight to save Guys
New realist disease hits NUS
06 Apr 1995
Mystery of the missing millions
06 Apr 1995
The Weekly Worker has received the document below from an anonymous contributor. We believe it may be connected with the 2½% pay offer made to the three rail unions in response to their claim for a “substantial rise” - just a week after British Rail announced profits in excess of £400m
Healthworkers’ pay unity under threat
06 Apr 1995
Nurses demand a national three percent pay rise - but this is a pay cut in real terms
Education battle goes on
06 Apr 1995
Jobseekers, no jobs
30 Mar 1995
For workers’ European unions
30 Mar 1995
Opportunists moving right
30 Mar 1995
Fighting education cuts
30 Mar 1995
Sharpening up our act
Turn protest into workers' muscle
30 Mar 1995
The time has now passed for building up ‘public support’. NHS workers already enjoy overwhelming support from the working class
Dundee hospital protest
23 Mar 1995
Both Tories and Labour have starved the NHS of funds. Communist candidates in Scotland say it should meet the growing needs of the population, not operate according to what capitalism can afford
By-pass official channels
23 Mar 1995
Solidarity needed at Badgerline
23 Mar 1995
Steve Argent, one of the workers sacked from the Badgerline bus company in Chelmsford, reports on the progress of the dispute