Solidarity 3/180
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A public sector strike that mobilised over a million workers over 20 days has been suspended, with unions winning gains but many workers thinking they could win more.
Solidarity 3/180, 9 September 2010
South Africa: one million strike against austerity
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The origin of the Plebs League: "The Burning Question of Education"
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Achieving control of Ruskin College was central to the WEA/extension project. From the summer of 1907 onwards, its supporters threw themselves into open propaganda, behind-the-scenes lobbying and bureaucratic manoeuvring — all aimed at purging the college of whatever stood in their way.
'Danton's Death': learning from their mistakes
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Georg Buchner wrote Danton’s Death in the Vormarz (“before March”) period of German literature and politics leading up to the failed March 1848 revolution.
Our unions should challenge sexism
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Have you ever experienced sexism at work? Have you ever witnessed it?
How to fight for trade union democracy
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The TUC responded to the arrival of a government determined to squeeze the working class even more than the Thatcher regime did, by deciding that the times are not now eventful enough to warrant the TUC holding annual congresses as it has done since 1869. Once every two years will now do.
Anti-fascist convicted on police say-so
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UAF activist and SWP leader Martin Smith has been found guilty of assaulting a police officer at the protest against Nick Griffin’s “Question Time” appearance in October 2009.
Chasing the ENA around Brighton
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Around 40 members of the English Nationalist Alliance marched in Brighton on 29 August. More than 200 anti-fascists held a counter demonstration.
Workers of the world
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Workers at the Viva Global garment factory, Gurgaon, India have been brutally attacked and beaten up with hockey sticks and lathis by goons called in by the factory bosses.
Alan Milburn joins Government as "social mobility" advisor
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David Cameron’s “big tent” is beginning to look like the Millenium Dome. It’s hard to keep up with those disaffected New Labour ministers and MPs and advisors who have agreed to serve the coalition as a “tsar” or an “advisor” for state initiatives.