Pensions: what's gone wrong?
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As Solidarity goes to press on 10 January, the public-sector pensions battle is in the balance.
Broad lefts and rank-and-file groups
Middle East and North Africa: prospects for revolution
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Date:
30 May, 2011 - 12:00 - 19:30
Location:
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Description:
Speakers: Raymond Lotta, from US Avakian-Maoist group "Revolution";
Egyptian writer Nawal el-Saadawi;
Amir Hassanpour, Toronto University.
Chair: Shahrzad Mojab, Toronto University.
Rank-and-file magazine relaunched
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Trade Union Solidarity magazine has been relaunched as an activist resource for rank-and-file trade unionists.
New rank-and-file initiative in Sheffield City Unison
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A promising new campaign has started in the Sheffield City (Local Government) branch of the public sector union Unison.
Three Articles on the Trade Union Rank and File
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Organise the rank and file!
Paul Whetton (Manton NUM) draws some lessons
[from 'New Problems, New Struggles', Socialist Organiser pamphlet, November 1989]
New left caucus in Unite
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Grass Roots Left (GRL), which emerged from Jerry Hicks’ campaign in the Unite General Secretary election, has officially launched itself as an organisation.
New left caucus in Unite meets
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The Grass Roots Left (GRL) which emerged from Jerry Hicks’ campaign in the Unite General Secretary election has officially launched itself as an organisation.
Industrial news in brief
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Train drivers on Arriva Trains Wales have taken strike action in a dispute over a number of issues, including pay.
SWP all at sea
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The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is floundering.
People's Convention: the signs are not good
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The “People’s Convention” against cuts called by SWP and LRC on 12 February should be a chance to make good the damage done by the SP’s coup in the National Shop Stewards’ Network (creating a new SP-line “anti-cuts movement”) and the Coalition of Resistance (anti-cuts campaigning as an exercise in listening to lots of celebrities speak).