How to organise young workers
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One of the most visible impacts of capitalist globalisation has been the massive expansion of low-paid (and often semi-casual) jobs in the service sector.
Union organising
Workers' Liberty 3/3: Factory bulletins in the 1920s and today
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Workers' Liberty 3/3 (March 2006) reproduces many communist factory bulletins from the 1920s, and discussion from that era about how they should be produced. "Workers cannot write newspapers? Really? Just tell us some news about your factory". It also includes information on workplace bulletins produced by the AWL. Click here to download pdf.
Industrial news in brief
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Teachers at Bishop Challoner school in East London are balloting for strikes against management bullying.
Turkey: workers' centres nourish new culture
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In mid-April 2013, I visited Istanbul to meet a group of socialist activists involved in building a workers’ support group, Uluslararası Işçi Dayanışması Derneği (Association of International Workers’ Solidarity, UID DER).
Militant trade unions save lives
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In a row with Jeremy Hunt, the Royal College of Nursing has rejected calls for it to split into two organisations — a professional body and a trade union.
Sussex University workers build for strikes
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Sussex University branches of the University and College Union (UCU) and Unite have both returned large majorities for strikes against outsourcing in indicative ballots.
Dhaka factory tragedy: capitalism is guilty
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On the afternoon of 24 April, Rana Plaza, an eight-storey building housing textile factories in Savar, a suburb of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, collapsed. When rescuers gave up searching for survivors on 29 April, the official death toll was 380.
3 Cosas workers: right to leave Unison?
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Solidarity 281 (10 April 2013) carried an interview with a worker involved in the “3 Cosas” campaign at the University of London, who explained their decision to quit Unison and join the Industrial Workers of Great Britain (IWGB).
Fifteen years of online solidarity
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Bruce Robinson reviews Campaigning Online and Winning: How Labour Start’s ActNOW campaigns are making unions stronger by Eric Lee and Edd Mustill.
Fast food workers strike against low pay
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Four hundred fast food workers in New York struck and demonstrated on 4 April to demand a $15/hour minimum wage.