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The Collapse of Wilko
Wilko, the chain of hardware and household stores which was founded in 1930, now stands on the brink of collapse having entered administration on 10th August 2023 and failing to find a buyer in the two weeks since. The chain owns 400 stores and employs 12,500 workers across the country, most of whom look likely
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End The Witch Hunt!
Reinstate All Suspended Postal Workers Now! In a previous article, we analysed the disgraceful sell-out deal that the leadership of the Communication Workers Union agreed with the management of Royal Mail. Aside from the lack of any real concessions on pay, conditions and job security the deal left the fate of 400 CWU reps and
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The Plague of American Deindustrialization
Reposted from The Revolution ReportBy Travis Cunha Destruction In the Wake of Deindustrialization It has been a decade since the residents of Flint, Michigan confronted a severe water crisis. City officials detected elevated levels of lead as well as the spread of legionella bacteria. The media circulated images of town hall participants holding contaminated brown
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Labour Betrays Workers Yet Again
The Labour Party abandons it’s commitments to gig economy workers but the union leaders are complicit As we proceed towards an election the Labour Party leadership has been making sure that it’s absolute dedication to serving British capitalism is clear to the ruling class. This means backtracking on even the meagre promises that it had
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The Immigration Question
The question of immigration is, to say the least, a testy one across the capitalist world. In the United States, Republicans repeatedly accuse Joe Biden’s Democrats of allowing hundreds of thousands of people to cross its southern border unchecked. Last year, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took credit for flying fifty Venezuelan immigrants from Texas to
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Where’s the Money Harry?
If you have read my previous article, you will know that I did not think it would be a good idea for Our City, Liverpool, to host Eurovision. My point was proved, but I take no joy from it. Being right was not my main concern, as if one is not right, one is usually
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Washington Is Responsible For Its Own Failures
Reposted from The Revolution ReportBy Travis Cunha The U.S. Only Has Itself to Blame Ethiopia has become the most recent nation to request to join the coalition of emerging world economies known as BRICS. It has seemed as though we cannot go a week without a new state from the Global South expressing interest in choosing BRICS
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Reindustrialisation Policy
The policy passed at last year’s TUC Conference backing the Government’s war drive is foolish and short-sighted At last year’s TUC conference (2022) the GMB Union and Prison Officers’ Association successfully moved a motion calling for the government to invest in re-industrialisation. There are some elements to this motion that any worker can agree with,
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Class Struggle Update – 13th August 2023
In this latest Class Struggle Update, Jason looks at the Junior Doctors’ disputes in England and Scotland, Unite members at British Airways win a pay rise, Amazon’s fulfilment centre in Coventry gets shut down, Wilko goes into administration, scaffolders at Hinkley Point walk out on strike, NEU’s teachers dispute collapses in failure, and hospitality workers
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The Failure of Trade Union Struggle
The National Education Union, Britain’s biggest teaching union, announced on 31st July that, following a consultation with its members, it would be accepting the 6.5% pay offer made by the Government through its proxy, the Schools Teachers’ Review Body. In so doing, the NEU brought to an end months of struggle and strikes by accepting
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– Harry Braverman
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