Solidarity 511, 20 June 2019

Setback at Harbinger

Schoolworkers at Harbinger Primary School in east London have suffered a major setback in their dispute over management bullying. The National Education Union's most senior unelected official, Assistant General Secretary Avis Gilmore, and the so-called NEU Action Committee withdrew union support for the Harbinger workers' strikes, hobbling the union group, on the eve of their long awaited grievance hearing. Just a few days before their planned strike on 6 June, Gilmore agreed to accept an offer from the headteacher's union behind the backs of school workers. The same offer had already been...

The life and work of Georg Lukács

Georg Lukács (pictured above in 1919) was one of the best-known Marxist writers of the 20th century. He joined the Hungarian Communist Party in December 1918 and was a People's Commissar in the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic of March-July 1919. After fleeing to Vienna, he published History and Class Consciousness (in 1923, but collecting texts written since 1919). He lived in the USSR between 1929 and 1945. He was a minister in the reforming Nagy government in Hungary in 1956, survived the Russian invasion and the repression, and died in 1971. John Cunningham talked with Martin Thomas...

Brexit and the Tory schisms

Andrew Gamble is emeritus professor of politics at Sheffield University, and author of many books on Marxist theory and studies of the Conservative Party. He talked with Martin Thomas from Solidarity . There are at least three relatively longstanding strands of division in the Conservative Party now in play: US orientation vs European orientation; English-nationalist orientation vs UK orientation; and ideological orientation vs traditional pragmatic small-c conservative orientation. What roles do you think they are playing? Probably the strand to the fore is the US vs European one. That goes...

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