1926: How the TUC betrayed the General Strike
The 1926 General Strike is rich in lessons for today. Dave Stockton looks at how the ruling class prepared for it while the unions leaders did not. In the mid-1920s the Miners Federation of Great...
View ArticleFighting for the right to strike
Jeremy Dewar recounts how the anti-union laws shackled the unions and calls for defiance There is no legal right to strike in Britain. This simple statement can come as a surprise to many British trade...
View ArticleThe British General Strike of 1926 – Part Two
In Workers Power 367 we saw how the Communist Part of Great Britain (CPGB) initiated the powerful rank and file Minority Movement, but became ever more uncritical supporters of the union leaders when...
View ArticleMargaret Thatcher Dies – celebrate, agitate, organise!
Dave Stockton writes an obituary to one of the most hated prime ministers in British history Any expression of sorrow for the death of Margaret Thatcher or praise for her qualities or achievements...
View Article1934: Class war in Minneapolis
Almost 80 years ago, the city of Minneapolis was a battlefield in the class war between workers and bosses. Three strikes in 1934 shook the city and American society to their foundations. The...
View Article125th Anniversary of the Matchworkers’ Strike
On the 125th anniversary of the matchwomen’s strike in the East End of London, Joy Macready examines the strike’s origins and how it sparked the “New Unionism” movement “Born in slums, driven to work...
View ArticleThe Lessons of Chile; Popular Unity 1970-1973
This article was originally written by Stuart King for Workers Power newspaper in September 1983, on the tenth anniversary of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s coup. It has been lightly edited for...
View ArticleThe Dublin lockout of 1913
In 1913 Dublin workers waged a heroic battle against their employers, the church and the police. Despite being defeated, argues Bernie McAdam, the lockout lives on as the most inspirational act of...
View Article100th anniversary of Rabotnitsa: time to recreate its success
Rabotnitsa issue 1, 1923 On International Women’s Day we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Rabotnitsa (The Woman Worker). Started by a group of Bolshevik women, including Nadezhda Krupskaya,...
View Article30th anniversary: the Battle of Orgreave
Thirty years ago in the Yorkshire coalfield, thousands of striking miners and their supporters faced an army of riot police intent on smashing the union and demoralising the pickets. Chris Clough looks...
View Article4 August 1914: the betrayal of the Second International
By Dave Stockton THE SECOND International, founded in 1889, was an organisation of the world’s socialist, social democratic and labour parties. From its founding conference in Paris it set out to...
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