This week saw further action by postal workers and telecoms workers in the CWU. This shows the way forward for the trade union movement: to unite the struggles with coordinated action against the bosses and their crisis-ridden system.
Across the country, the trade union movement is awakening and workers are moving into action. And there is the prospect of members in Britain’s biggest union, Unison, joining the battle. The need for fighting leadership has never been greater.
Strikes are breaking out across Britain’s bus network, as drivers fight for decent wages and conditions. And recent victories in the North West provide a vital lesson for the whole labour movement: militancy pays.
Today saw the start of a wave of action by workers at Royal Mail, in the largest strike yet in the rising tide of class struggle. To win, these battles must be united into a mass fightback against the bosses – and for bold socialist policies.
Hundreds of dock workers have brought Britain’s busiest port to a standstill, in a dispute over pay. This shows the potential power that workers hold – a power that must be harnessed through militant struggle for a bold socialist alternative.
Criminal barristers have voted to escalate their ongoing action into an indefinite strike from next month. To win, barristers must link their fight against legal aid cuts with the rest of the struggles breaking out across the labour movement.
Local government workers across Scotland are mobilising in a struggle over pay – part of a wider strikewave that is sweeping across Britain. To win, the trade unions must organise coordinated action, and fight for a bold socialist alternative.
A new labour movement campaign ‘Enough Is Enough’ was launched this week in London. This is a welcome development, showing that there is an appetite for a fightback, which must become explicitly socialist to achieve its aims.
Tens of thousands of workers on Britain’s railways are set to continue strike action from 18 to 20 August in their struggle for better pay and conditions. Their struggle is an inspiration to workers everywhere. Victory to the rail strikes!
Journalists in the NUJ have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action at one of Britain’s biggest media outlets, Reach PLC. With the class struggle spreading to the media, the establishment is no doubt fearful of where this could lead.
Over the summer of 1911, workers in Liverpool brought the city to a standstill. A strike that started in shipping rapidly spread to the docks and all transport. With the class struggle now heating up, this period contains important lessons for today.
A wave of wildcat strikes has swept across Britain – in the construction industry and at Amazon warehouses – as workers’ anger reaches boiling point. This is a harbinger of the huge class battles on the horizon. The unions must prepare for war.