Council workers in Tower Hamlets are starting three days of strike action this week, in response to attempts to impose worse conditions on staff. The whole labour movement must fight these attacks.
The dire situation for workers in the face of the bosses’ attacks has sparked a rise in trade union membership in the UK. With Labour shifting right under Starmer, we need organisation and militant action to fight for workers’ rights.
Manufacturing and industry in Britain is set to be decimated by the pandemic, Brexit, and the crisis of capitalism. Union leaders are urging the Tories to save jobs. But instead of pleading, the union movement must organise and fight.
An attack on jobs is on the horizon in higher education. The UCU has launched a campaign in response. But members must pressure the leadership to ensure a militant fightback is carried out.
In the middle of the pandemic, delivery workers who transport important medical samples – including COVID-19 – are under attack from employers. But the couriers are fighting back.
A bitter struggle has been brewing inside Royal Mail for a while. But for now, the bosses are in retreat, fearful of provoking an explosion amongst postal workers. CWU members must use this opportunity to prepare for future battles.
As businesses begin to reopen, Roy Bentham of the Blacklist Support Group explains how there never was any lockdown for construction workers. The union leaders have dragged their feet. We must fight to #ShutTheSites!
In our latest episode of Marxist Voice, we’re joined by Natasha Sorrell – an activist with the National Education Union – to discuss the current war being waged against teachers by the Tories and the right-wing press.
Couriers and logistics workers have been on the frontline of fighting the pandemic, providing an essential service to society. The bosses, however, have put these key workers’ lives on the line. But delivery workers are fighting back.
Ruthless British Airways bosses are set to cut thousands of jobs at the airline, using the pretext of the pandemic to undermine workers’ wages and conditions. The labour movement must fight for nationalisation and workers’ control.
The ideas represented by 1st May remain as relevant today as ever, if not more so. In this spirit, we republish below extracts from the text of a May Day leaflet written by Lenin in 1904.
Today is ‘National Posties Day’. Postal workers have offered themselves as an emergency service during the lockdown, and there have been walkouts against unsafe conditions at Royal Mail. We spoke to one CWU member about these events.