By Gabriel Winant Thirty-five years ago last month – October 1986 – the giant agricultural equipment manufacturer John Deere locked out striking members of the United Auto
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By Mike Cullen The following is the text of a pamphlet, written by Mike Cullen, on his experiences as a docker in Liverpool. I started
By Andy Ford, Unite health rep A new style of conference The Unite conference was truly led by the voices of the lay reps, that
By John Pickard Reddit is a social media platform that is much more popular among Generation Z and millennials than Facebook is. It has separate
Tom Greenwood (Leyton and Wanstead CLP), a band member and respected session musician, asks “Who’s makes all the money from music streaming?” The music streaming
Ray Goodspeed (Leyton and Wanstead CLP) reports from the long-running teachers’ picket line at Oaks Park School, in Newbury Park, in the east London Borough
Winter of discontent in USA. How far will it go? By Richard Mellor in California A powerful reminder of how important the 14 million members
From a West Midlands reader The battlelines are being drawn up in Birmingham in what could become a struggle of national importance – over 500
The Labour Party conference opens in Brighton this Saturday, and with the right-wing firmly in control of the leadership and the party bureaucracy, they are
By Ray Goodspeed (Leyton and Wanstead CLP) The annual conference of Trade Union Congress takes place this week from Sunday. It could not meet at
