By Steve McKenzie, Unite Community member Many Unite activists are becoming increasingly angry and frustrated, with the continuing failure of our union leadership to vigorously
Category: Trade Union Archive

Lobby report from Dave Putson, Unite Community member Well, I went to the George the 5th Monument opposite Parliament today to show some solidarity with

By William F Warde The recently announced elections to the USDAW (Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers) national executive committee give a snapshot of

Letter: The role of the trade union bureaucracy.
By Steve McKenzie (Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley Unite Community)[Photo Credit AP/Matt Dunham] In the Bulletin of the Left Opposition, November/December 1929, Leon Trotsky wrote, “The

By Maureen Wade Chair, Birmingham UNISON Retired Members Section March 8 marks International Working Women’s Day, and as it is the 40th anniversary of the

The Miners’ Strike of 1984-5: a heroic struggle – a bitter defeat.
Ray Goodspeed provides an overview which sets the scene for the strike that became a defining experience for a generation of socialists and trade unionists.

By Maureen Wade, (Chair, Birmingham UNISON retired members section, personal capacity) Birmingham City Council has announced the largest local authority budget cuts in history. Jobs

Socialist clarity or muddled compromise: CGT in France in 1935. The view of Trotsky – Part Two.
Part Two – Workers’ control, peasant farmers, the need for class struggle. This following text is the second part of a speech made to the

Letter: model resolution on ICJ and Gaza
Letter from Steve McKenzie, Unite Community member. It came to mind with the ICJ interim decision that there is plausible evidence that Israel is commiting

By Steve McKenzie, UNITE Community member This is the second part of a two part article. Part 1 can be found here. ************** At a