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Al Ditty – Working Class Hero
CTYP_news_20170317InjusticeForAl_GalenFletcherGrave.jpg A tribute to a white Minneapolis sanitation worker who was fired and committed suicide after leaking plans for a police raid on the Justice for...
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A history of trade unionism in the Philippines
Filipino-workers-March.jpg A detailed account of the history of the workers' movement in the Philippines, by the International Communist Current. We disagree with the articles references to decadence...
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SAFTU: The Tragedy and (Hopefully not) the Farce
SAFTU pic.jpg The labour movement has been unable to de-link itself from its archenemy: capital. As its structures bureaucratise, as its leaders become career unionists, as it opens investment...
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A survey of the French workers (1880) – La Revue Socialiste
19th Century French Workshop.jpgThe text of a questionnaire circulated among working class and trade union circles in France in 1880 by the editors of La Revue Socialiste, as part of an attempt to...
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On the union question - Amadeo Bordiga and Onorato Damen
damen.jpg An extract from the book 'Bordiga: Beyond the Myth', published by the CWO/ICT, available in multiple languages, on the question of working with unions. All italics in this article are the...
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Blood on their hands: the racist history of modern police unions
police-union.jpg Against the background of the black lives matter movement, Flint Taylor takes a look at the racist history of American police "unions". read more
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The terminal decline of the TUC
TUC-cuts-are-not-the-cure-.jpg In 2016 trade union membership dipped to an all time low. Analysis by TUC officials suggests that the situation is even starker – younger workers aren’t joining unions,...
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Labour Advice Bureau – Workers’ Dreadnought
labour advice bureau.jpg Here is a sarcastic piece from Sylvia Pankhurst’s Workers’ Dreadnought paper in 1922, it was reprinted as follows in 1961 by the UK-based libertarian socialist group Solidarity...
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Basics of Organising from the IWW
iww_poster.jpg A short pamphlet from the IWW on the essentials of early-stage organising at work, including the practice of 'workplace mapping'. Your map may show you how the workplace is set up to...
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How to kill an Act of Parliament – Jack Ray
dockers taking direct action in 1972.jpg The story of the legislation that led to the jailing of the Pentonville Five, the 1971 Industrial Relations Act. Published as follows during 2012 in the Black...
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Outsourced SEIU union organizer wrongfully terminated for organizing at work
fight-15.jpg A young organizer has won more than $20,000 in back pay after being wrongfully terminated from her job with the Chicago affiliate of the Fight for $15 campaign, Workers Organizing...
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To praise Ginger Goodwin is to revere a radical – Mark Leier
ginger goodwin.jpg Feisty miner reminds that comfortable compromisers are easily forgotten.In this piece (originally published by The Tyee in 2014), Mark Leier, author of Bakunin: The Creative Passion,...
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An “entirely different” kind of union: the Service, Office, and Retail...
SORWUC - illustration by Ethan Heitner.jpg An in depth article which examines the Service, Office, and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada (SORWUC), an independent, grassroots, socialist-feminist union...
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No Justice, No Piece!: A Working Girl's Guide to Labor Organizing in the Sex...
no-justice-no-piece.png"A strippers' union? Do you wish you and your co-workers had some job security, and some control over your working conditions? If the workers at your club want the power to...
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A new concept of unionism: the New South Wales Builders Labourers' Federation...
greenbansdemo.png Meredith Burgmann's pioneering work on the history of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Builders Labourers' Federation. During the 1960s and 1970s the NSWBLF introduced...
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Vietnam: 6,000 workers involved in wildcat strike at clothing factory
Dinh-cong-9894-1504840642-5695-1504847549.jpg Inhumane conditions and low wages have led to approximately 6,000 workers going on strike at a garment factory in Thanh Hoa province, Vietnam. read more
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Durham Teaching Assistants – Not Finished Yet?
Durham Tas Oct2017.jpg The solidarity and determination of the Durham Teaching Assistants has been an inspiration to other workers throughout the North East and beyond. More than once they refused to...
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Organising the Unorganised: 'Race', Poor Work and Trade Unions
burnsall-strike.jpg John Wrench and Satnam Virdee discuss the relationship between mostly South Asian women workers at Heathrow and Burnsall (Smethwick), their relationships with the TGWU and GMB trade...
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The Standard Telephones and Cables strike, 1973
Screenshot (100).png The Standard Telephones and Cables strike in 1973 was one of a wave of strikes by black and asian workers confronting both the racism of their white colleagues and management, and...
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Women in Struggle - The Mansfield Hosiery Strike
mansfield-strike.png The strike at Mansfield Hosiery Mills in November-December 1972, involving male and female Asian workers, was a struggle which exposed not only the racialism of the National Union...
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