Tag Archives: strikes

London: grounds for optimism

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 ...

Milton Keynes: Important step forward

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 ...

Rekindling solidarity

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 ...

Take the battle into Labour

Unions must reject the terms of debate established by government, media, and Labour opposition, argues Michael Copestake So the June 30 strikes are upon us, with four teaching and civil service trade unions out on strike against the vicious class-war cuts programme of the coalition government. Although this initial action should be seen as more of ...

Striking together

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 ...

Resistance must not be isolated

Withdrawal calls reveal lack of strategy, writes James Turley In times of severe economic crisis, the basic living conditions of masses of people are thrown into disarray. Entire states go bankrupt, leaving millions vulnerable to redundancy, poverty and worse. In these conditions, people inevitably fight back - in however disorganised, however haphazard a fashion. In the present ...