Tag: strikes
1974 – an end and a beginning
Willie Black looks back at 1974. A pivotal year both in Britain and across the world – high points of workers’ struggles, but also the beginning of five decades of neo-liberalism
Teachers’ union conference battles over pay strikes
Palestine, pay cuts and protest: NEU activists challenge the union's bureaucracy in the face of another expected real terms pay cut.
The Courtaulds strike of 1965 – Black workers fighting back
Sue Sparks of the IS History Project uncovers the history of one of the first Black workers' strikes against racism in the 1960s.
Here We Go! Forty years on from the outbreak of the Great Strike
Forty years ago today British miners began industrial action in what became the longest and most bitter strike of the twentieth century. Here Brian Parkin, a former Research Officer for the National Union of Mineworkers, gives a brief introduction to this pivotal strike.
Resisting the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act
Ian Allinson discusses the ways workers can resist the government's latest repressive anti-union legislation.
Labor’s Upsurge and the Search for Workers’ Power
Five hundred thousand workers were on strike in the USA at some point in 2023. Kim Moody explores how the strikes have helped to build power and what to expect in the year to come.
What’s going on in Unite? | Part 1
Unite activist Raymond Morell assesses Sharon Graham's leadership of the union. Part 1.
Let them eat steak: voices from a UAW picket line
Dana Cloud reports from a United Auto Workers picket line at a G.M. parts distribution center in Rancho Cucamonga, CA.
‘Troublemakers at Work’: Why trade unions need a militant rank-and-file
'Troublemakers' brought trade unionists and activists together to discuss the importance of a militant rank-and-file.
Popular protest and labour insurgency in Iran
A Tehran-based activist assesses the movement, and the under-reported role of workers’ struggles in the wider street mobilisations.