The real story of Made in Dagenham
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London Workers' Liberty is holding a meeting about the story and lessons of the strike on 21 October 2010.
Strikes and trade union history
Tom Mann: Independent labour gets organised
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Continuing the series on the life and times of Tom Mann
In 1887 Keir Hardie called the leaders of the trade union movement “holders of a fat, snug office, concerned only with maintaining the respectability of the cause.”
The Labour Party: born of struggle
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Down to the 1880s there was no “labour movement” [in Britain] in the continental sense at all. There were strong trade unions (of skilled workers), and these unions were politically-minded — but the only parties were the two ruling-class ones, the Tories and the Liberals.
Tom Mann 3 —1889: The Great Trade Union Turning Point
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Continuing a series on the life and times of Tom Mann with an account of the London dock strike of 1889.
Socialist pioneer Tom Mann part 3: the struggle for free time
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Cathy Nugent continues a series on the life and times of Tom Mann
The birth of the new unions
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Cathy Nugent continues a series on the life and times of Tom Mann
Live working or die fighting?
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Paul Mason, author of Live working or die Fighting (Harvill Secker), spoke to Mark Osborn
Workers' control and D-Day
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Last night my father told me a story I had never heard before which I would certainly like to know more about. He was talking about his brother-in-law, who at the start of WW2 was in the fire service but was then called up and put as a Lieutenant in an unit designated as part of the Royal Engineers who worked on the Mulberry harbours which were moored off the coast of Normandy and served as the means to get supplies across.
Union Organising in the Workplace: a 'Left-Wing Policy' from 1925
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Browsing Lansbury's Labour Weekly again, I found this article from June 27 1925. So, what do you reckon? Are union branches obsolete?
Lansbury, the N.U.R., and Union Mergers
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I'm currently writing a book about Poplarism, which gives me a superb excuse to leaf through labour movement stuff from the 1920s. On Friday, I browsed 'Lansbury's Labour Weekly', the newspaper that George Lansbury set up after the TUC took over his 'Daily Herald' in 1922.