The Trade Union Movement, New Labour, and Working-Class Politics: a debate
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THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT, NEW LABOUR, AND WORKING-CLASS REPRESENTATION: Class, union and party. By John Bloxam and Sean Matgamna. April 2004.
The Trade Union Movement, New Labour, and Working-Class Politics
Marxism and Syndicalism
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35. SYNDICALISM
Syndicalists varied greatly from place to place and had varying relationships with left-wing politicians.
What do Marxists do in the labour movement?
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Leon Trotsky: Class, Union, and Party
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The trade unions are not only the bedrock of the labour movement.
The Trade Union Movement, New Labour, and Working-Class Politics: Introduction
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The 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
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“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 basic issues in dispute (Part IV of The Trade Union Movement, New Labour, and Working-Class Politics)
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7. 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
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15. 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
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21. 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.