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,
Category: Trade Union Archive

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

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

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 Richard Mellor in California [Radish research in the USA, has published some very useful data on the state of the trade union movement in

Editorial: trade union opposition to Labour austerity
In the coming months there will be increasing tension between the economic needs of trade union members and the austerity strategy of the new Labour

Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Weeks 21-24 Update
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,

Editorial: labour movement must respond to pogroms by the far right
It is the fundamental responsibility of the organised workers’ movement to respond to the attacks by the far right on asylum seekers and Asian communities,

Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Weeks 16-20 Update
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,