Rank and file pressure must be brought to bear not only within the unions, writes Michael Copestake, but on the Labour leadership too The June 30 strikes involving up to 750,000 public sector workers may only have been for one day, and may only have involved unaffiliated unions, but they gave the Labour tops much pain ...
Hopefully it will be a rather hot autumn, writes Ben Lewis (first published in the Weekly Worker) The June 30 London demonstration, which made its way from Lincoln’s Inn Fields, through Parliament Square and down to Westminster Abbey, was a lot bigger than I expected. An estimated 30,000 striking workers hit the streets. In terms of ...
Next time, coordinated strike action by millions, writes Dave Isaacson (first published here) The strikes in Milton Keynes showed signs of the potential for involving wider layers of workers in future action. Many onlookers were enthusiastic in their support. Along with other members of the Coalition of Resistance, I visited a number of the PCS union’s picket ...
Callum Williamson reports from Southampton on the day four public sector unions walked out Thursday 30th June saw the largest-scale industrial action in Britain for decades, in the context of intensifying class struggle throughout Europe and beyond. At the heart of this conflict is an attempt on the part of the capitalists and their governments to ...
Ben Lewis looks forward to a bold show of mass opposition to austerity on June 30 (first published in the Weekly Worker) On Tuesday May 24 the consultancy firm, MM&K, and the electronic voting agency, Manifest, published a report which exposed the harsh reality and twisted logic of capitalism in crisis. At a time ...