By Liverpool docker. Liverpool University students, along with thousands of others around the country, have joined in the global protests against the genocidal assault on
Category: Trade Union Archive
Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Weeks 12-15 Update
Throughout this 40th anniversary year of the miners’ strike, Left Horizons will publish regular bulletins on features and developments that occurred during the strike, month
By John Pickard On June 18, 1984, police from South Yorkshire and other forces attacked unarmed and peaceful miners’ pickets who had gathered at the
A ‘New Deal for Workers’: how it was repeatedly diluted
By Andy Ford The ‘New Deal for Working People’, painstakingly negotiated between the trade unions and Keir Starmer’s leadership team was, if not the jewel
By Rob McKenzie in the USA via the US socialist website Facts for Working People. I found the news that the Amazon Labor Union would
Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Weeks 7 to 11
Throughout this 40th anniversary year of the miners’ strike, Left Horizons will publish regular bulletins on important issues and developments that occurred during the strike,
A new Spring for Labour?
By Michael Roberts This post was first published on May Day in the Lebanon journal, Project Zero, in Arabic. https://alsifr.org/new-era-labourer May Day is traditionally celebrated
By Emily Rizzo, Chalkbeat New York. [Editorial note: although this article refers to a dispute around the working conditions of teachers in Philadelphia, USA, we are
By John Pickard The organisation that represents the trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party, TULO, met with Keir Starmer and leading Shadow ministers on
By Steve McKenzie, Unite Community member The watering down of Labour’s New Deal for Workers has understandably, and quite rightly, led to howls of protest