Tag: strikes
Report: Could ‘Don’t Pay’ Pull It Off?
by Sophie K Rosa
Explainers: The Establishment’s Plan to Deal With Inflation
As inflation rises the establishment has a solution: we all need to get poorer. The alternative is for profits to fall – but that is unacceptable to the powerful. Aaron Bastani on how only unions can save us.
Opinion: The Rail Strikes Are Entirely Justified
by Aaron Bastani
Opinion: Direct Action is Just What the Doctor Ordered
by Moya Lothian-McLean
Analysis: How Striking Lecturers Won Their Students’ Support
by Alessio Koliulis
Analysis: A Court Just Took Away the Right to Strike – But a Union is Fighting to Win It Back
by Callum Cant
Opinion: University Students, Get Your Asses on the Picket Line
by Zac Larkham
Opinion: We, Goldsmiths Staff, Are Striking for the Future of Our Universities
by Goldsmiths UCU Finance Working Group
Report: Workplace Strikes in the US Are Surging – But Workers Have a Difficult Path to Victory
by Luis Feliz Leon and Maximillian Alvarez
Opinion: Workplace Struggles and Plans for Government Must Go Hand in Hand
by James Meadway
Unite’s new general secretary Sharon Graham has promised to prioritise industrial struggle over internal Labour politics. This is a good thing, argues James Meadway – but the post-Corbyn left shouldn't altogether turn its back on aspirations of running the country.
Report: General Strike: Workers Take on the Military in Myanmar
by Htar Nwe
Report: Welcome to Strike School, the Programme Teaching Global Workers to Fight Back
by Sophie K Rosa
Report: ‘It’s All Performative, They Don’t Care’: Why Tate Workers Are Going on Strike
by Sophie K Rosa
Facing redundancy during a national recession and global pandemic, Tate workers are going on strike, arguing that, despite the art institution’s socially conscious image, it is the lowest-paid and most diverse workers who will be worst impacted. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Opinion: To Fight the Coming Storm, the Left Needs to Learn From the Anti-Austerity Movement
by Michael Chessum
The next few years are likely to see the biggest crisis of capitalism, and the biggest assault on our rights and living standards, in any of our lifetimes. What can the British left learn from the anti-austerity movement about what the fightback should look like?