By Richard Mellor in California The strike at Boeing by 33,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 75 is
Year: 2024
Labour Party conferences are not necessarily important in themselves, because although they shouldn’t, Labour leaders generally ignore the democratically-arrived decisions of the Party membership. But
By Richard Mellor in California. Workers, members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 75 in Seattle Washington, are in the second
Keep Grangemouth Working campaign
By David Cartwright, Unite, Glasgow Retired Members’ Branch Since last November, a campaign has been underway to save oil refinery jobs at Grangemouth in Central
By Michael Roberts This blog was originally published by Michael Roberts on Saturday, 21 September 2024. The original article can be found here. ************** Today,
Editorial: Labour conference – Promises of “change” but implementing austerity
Thousands of Labour Party members will be in Liverpool over the next week, but what takes place will be less of a conference and more
By Michael Roberts Last Wednesday’s decision of the US Federal Reserve Bank’s monetary committee to cut its ‘policy interest rate’ is significant in two ways.
The latest in a series of occasional articles by Andy Ford on 80-year-anniversaries of the Soviet Union in WW2. ******* In September 1944 Finland agreed
The High Speed train – is it worth the cost?
TV review by Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member This week’s Panorama programme investigated the reasons behind the ballooning costs of HS2, the high-speed rail
Letter: Priorities for Activists
Letter from Steve McKenzie (Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley Unite Community) There can be no doubt that the failures of the Labour government will pave the way