Category: Trade union
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Desolate Bethesda
The following letter is an example of the solidarity shown by the workers of Barnsley with the Bethesda Quarrymen. The struggles in one area are never isolated. These men knew that the employer is not just the enemy of his employees, but a class enemy of all workers.
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The Great Penrhyn Strike 1900-1903 and celebrating the Quarrymen today.
The fight of the Quarrymen of Bethesda at the beginning of the 20th Century was a struggle of the working class of North Wales against one of the most powerful landowners, not only in Wales, but in the whole of Britain. The strike came after series of clashes between the quarrymen and the owners. These…
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Burberry Clothing Castleford
An uneasy truce has settled over the Burberry clothing factory in Castleford, West Yorkshire. The job cuts, redundancies and wage cuts have been implemented and approximately 150 workers, friends, colleagues, workmates are now gone. Those who remain hunker down hoping the worst is over. But is it? The job losses and wage cuts leave deep…
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Mary Bamber
Ignorance is Blitz – why working class women must stand up and fight like Mary Bamber did. Mary Hardie Bamber — ‘Ma Bamber’ to the people of Liverpool — stands as an inspiring yet neglected figure in Britain’s working-class history. Born in Edinburgh in 1874, she devoted her life to the cause of the poor,…
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The Self-Defeating Politics of Military Keynesianism: Sharon Graham, Unite, and the Crisis of British Trade Unionism
From Industrial Power to Imperial Begging The deindustrialisation of Britain has wrought devastation upon the trade union movement that extends far beyond mere numerical decline. This process, accelerating from the mid-1960s onwards, has systematically dismantled the traditional industries that once formed the backbone of working-class organisation and industrial power. The consequences have been profound: secure,…
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Alex Gordon’s Election: Continuity of Revisionism in the Communist Party of Britain
The election of Alex Gordon as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) represents nothing more than grim continuity of agenda—a consistency this revisionist political outfit has maintained since its re-founding in the late 1980s. We must emphasise “re-founded” here because, unlike the CPB’s own self-perception, we must recognise the reality: they are…
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The French Farmers’ Revolt.
French Farmers once again as they drove their parade of over 350 tractors towards Paris, we thought it was about time we took a look at what has caused this uproar. For most of the post-war period, French agriculture was able to avoid being treated as a free-market sector. Farmers were recognised as a social…
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Limits Of Trade Unionism
Britain is the oldest capitalist nation, and the oldest imperialist nation, in the world. As it industrialised first and most comprehensively it created gigantic class conflicts between the early proletariat and the capitalist class as the jobs of artisan workers (such as weavers) were destroyed and these workers forced into the growing industrial cities like…
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A Response To Trade Union Betrayal Of Women Workers
“If facts hurt your feelings, you need new feelings, not new facts” – Ricky Gervais Ever since the Supreme Court ruling in April, we’ve seen a steady stream of incoherent liberal cope. A recent example comes from The Herald, in an article, titled “Trade Union Action on the Supreme Court Ruling Not Off the Table,”…
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The Grangemouth Scandal
The Job Cuts At Grangemouth Reveal The Fraudulent Nature Of The Unite and SNP Leaders For two political parties that supposedly hate each other the Labour Party and the SNP certainly are agreeing on a lot these days. They agree on the need to continue the Ukraine war in perpetuity and they apparently agree that…
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