The Trade Union Movement, New Labour, and Working-Class Politics
Class, unions, and party: a debate, by John Bloxam and Sean Matgamna
The Trade Union Movement, New Labour, and Working-Class Politics: a debate
Submitted on 16 October, 2007 - 11:19
THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT, NEW LABOUR, AND WORKING-CLASS REPRESENTATION: Class, union and party. By John Bloxam and Sean Matgamna. April 2004.
Marxism and Syndicalism
Submitted on 6 October, 2007 - 13:1835. SYNDICALISM
Syndicalists varied greatly from place to place and had varying relationships with left-wing politicians.
Leon Trotsky: Class, Union, and Party
Submitted on 6 October, 2007 - 11:24The trade unions are not only the bedrock of the labour movement.
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Submitted on 13 December, 2006 - 13:47
The Trade Union Movement, New Labour, and Working-Class Politics: Introduction
Submitted on 24 November, 2006 - 11:21The biggest event in working-class politics for many decades is the Blairite hijacking of the Labour Party, in the mid 1990s. The Blairites have transformed the Labour Party, which the trade unions founded over a hundred years ago, from the treacherous “bourgeois workers’ party” it had been into something qualitatively different..
The Trade Union Movement, New Labour, and Working-Class Politics: Part III. Trotsky and anti-Labour candidates in the 30s
Submitted on 21 November, 2006 - 11:32“Q: Was the ILP correct in running as many candidates as possible in the recent General Election, even at the risk of splitting the vote?
The Trade Union Movement, New Labour, and Working-Class Politics: Part IV. The basic issues in dispute
Submitted on 20 November, 2006 - 12:587. NO CHANGE IN CLASS CHARACTER OF THE BOURGEOIS WORKERS’ LABOUR PARTY?
“Defeats there have been, but there has been no decisive irreversible shift in the class character of the Labour Party.
The Trade Union Movement, New Labour, and Working-Class Politics: Part V. Methods, models, mystifications
Submitted on 19 November, 2006 - 13:1115. A WISH-LIST IS NOT A MARXIST PERSPECTIVE
The Trade Union Movement, New Labour, and Working-Class Politics: Part VI. Marxists, militants, and working-class socialism
Submitted on 18 November, 2006 - 13:1321. CAN THE PSEUDO-LEFT POLITICALLY HIJACK THE UNIONS?
J & S argue:
“These facts indicate that a general policy of attempting to win official union backing for socialist electoral challenges to Labour has no grip.
The Trade Union Movement, New Labour, and Working-Class Politics: Part VII. Politics and trade-unionism are not the same thing
Submitted on 16 November, 2006 - 13:1530. COLLAPSING POLITICS INTO TRADE UNIONISM
“The fact, that through this mechanism of ruling class domination [the Labour Party] the trade unions have also secured piecemeal reforms and concessions, is no more remarkable than the idea that the union leaderships can sometimes achieve concessions through agreements regulating the terms of the labour contract”.
The Trade Union Movement, New Labour, and Working-Class Politics: Part IX. FBU, RMT, and AWL
Submitted on 14 November, 2006 - 13:2448. SHOULD THE FBU HAVE STOOD CANDIDATES?
“There is another issue. Which concerns the advocacy of trade union candidates against Labour, without the preliminaries of a fight for the Labour ticket.
The Trade Union Movement, New Labour, and Working-Class Politics: Part X. AWL and "the sects"
Submitted on 13 November, 2006 - 13:2757. “THE SECTS” AND PROLIER THAN THOU PHILISTINISM
“With the class or with the sects? Bloxam and O’Mahony fail to focus clearly on the tasks before the class.
The Trade Union Movement, New Labour, and Working-Class Politics: Appendices
Submitted on 12 November, 2006 - 13:301: A workers voice in politics?
2: The case for revolutionary realism
3: Solidarity editorial, August 2002
4: “Organise the awkward squad”, Solidarity 11/10/02
5: The Labour Party in perspective
6: A workers’ government
7: Class, union and party: a summary
