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
Reinstate Peter Gregson
14 Mar 2019
The use of the IHRA ‘definition’ of anti-Semitism to expel a union activist marks a new low, writes David Shearer of Labour Party Marxists
Chris Baugh set for re-election
31 Jan 2019
Left Unity has agreed its candidate for assistant general secretary, reports Dave Vincent
Left high and dry
24 Jan 2019
Dave Vincent gives his take on the forthcoming election for assistant general secretary
Support the Socialist View slate
15 Nov 2018
Peter Manson looks at the rift that has opened up in the Left Unity faction of PCS
A new beginning?
20 Sep 2018
Marcel van der Linden examines the state of the global labour movement
Edging towards a second vote
13 Sep 2018
The EU was a central theme for the second successive year, reports Peter Manson
Left in disunity
06 Sep 2018
Dave Vincent looks at the strange battle for assistant general secretary
Spirit of common struggle
14 Jun 2018
Terry Tapp A serf’s journal Zero Books, 2017, pp144, £9.99
Hold them to account
07 Jun 2018
Kevin Bean of the University of Liverpool branch reports on the attempts by the UCU leadership to sabotage union democracy
Where’s the politics?
17 May 2018
The TUC’s call for a ‘new deal’ is tellingly vague and lacking in detail, writes Peter Manson
Join us in battle
03 May 2018
The RMT is debating whether or not to affiliate. Jim Grant of Labour Party Marxists says get back in
Taking stock at half-time
22 Mar 2018
Morale remains high, as UCU members prepare for the second phase of strike action. Kevin Bean says members are increasingly questioning neo-liberal orthodoxy
Wave of militancy
01 Mar 2018
Kevin Bean of Liverpool UCU (personal capacity)
Determined to win
22 Feb 2018
Dave Douglass reviews Steve McGrail and Vicky Patterson Cowie miners, Polmaise colliery and the 1984-85 miners’ strike Scottish Labour History Society, 2017, pp146, £6
Parallel dead ends
25 Jan 2018
Peter Manson reviews: Ronnie Kasrils, A simple man: Kasrils and the Zuma enigma Auckland Park 2017, pp283, £16.19 and Dale McKinley, South Africa’s corporatised liberation Auckland Park 2017, pp198, £14.95