With the RMT and TSSA moving towards a merger, Chris Strafford calls for democratic unity from below in the workers' movement (first published here) “While the railway companies are thus combining their forces, and consolidating their interests, railwaymen have allowed their forces to be split into innumerable sections ...”[1] This warning comes from the May 1911 ...
Over 800 people gathered outside the BBC in Manchester in what was an angry and determined protest. Everyone gathered was outraged by the massacre committed by the Israeli military against aid workers bound for Gaza aboard a humanitarian flotilla organised by activists, MEP's, trade unionists and journalists from across the world. Protesters marched through the city ...
Elementary workplace struggles demand to be generalised, writes James Turley The British Airways dispute is the most recent of a whole series of strikes in which workers have been forced to resist attacks on their wages, conditions and indeed their jobs. The three-day walkout by BA cabin crew over March 20-22 took place despite the agreement ...
Manchester Communist Students will be picketing The UBS branch in Manchester can be found on Marsden street (map) as part of the international day of action against UBS for Friday the 19th of March at 3pm. We will be picketing the Manchester UBS offices in support of victimised trade union Albert Durango and the Latin American Workers ...