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Linking up existing strike actions with demands for housing, fuel, food and decent work holds the key to rebuilding class consciousness today, argues RMT national president ALEX GORDON
BRAVING THE ELEMENTS: Nurses are among those who have been out on the picket lines in recent days
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
IN THE last weeks of December 2022, Britain saw strike action by over a million workers.
Trade unions representing posties, university lecturers, rail workers, nurses, ambulance drivers, driving examiners, bus drivers, staff in the UK Border Force and at the Highways and Environment Agencies have all taken industrial action in concert with each other.
The defiant mood of striking workers standing on picket lines in sub-zero temperatures has been reinforced by a sense that they are part of a swelling movement across Britain. The organised working class is leading a national debate over what kind of a society we want to live in.
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Since 2023, Strike Map has evolved from digital mapping at a national level to organising ‘mega pickets’ — we believe that mass solidarity with localised disputes prepares the ground for future national action, writes HENRY FOWLER
RMT’s former president ALEX GORDON explains why his union supports defence diversification and a just transition for workers in regions dependent on military contracts, and calls on readers to join CND’s demo against nuclear-armed submarines on June 7
