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Jeremy Corbyn (second left) and Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South (second right) on the picket line outside London Euston train station, August 18, 2022

Politics / 12 July 2025

New party or not, a united front must be built

12 July 2025

It would be great to have a better option to vote for in elections, but a coalition of proven working-class organisations built from decades of real struggle offers stronger foundations than patched-together parliamentarianism, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS

Long-planned and organised annual Derby Silk Mill Lockout March, Rally and People’s Festival /Pic: Author supplied

PREVIEW / 23 April 2025

Focus on Midlands as Derby’s history and hospitality await

23 April 2025

BILL GREENSHIELDS invites all and sundry to this years’ Derby Silk Mill Lockout March, Rally and People’s Festival on June 7

UNITED WE STAND: A lantern parade in Liverpool marks the reopening of Spellow Community Hub and Library after it was torched during riots in August 2024

Politics / 16 May 2025

As the crisis of capitalism widens so do the dangers to democracy

16 May 2025

BILL GREENSHIELDS urges an intensification of the information offensive against the impact of the spurious discourse peddled by Reform UK

French President Emmanuel Macron gestures at the Elysee Pala

Features / 30 August 2024

Macron is solely responsible for the deadlock in French politics

30 August 2024

BILL GREENSHIELDS reviews the president's contortions as he tries to avoid appointing a government of the election-winning New Popular Front

A sign for a polling station at Magdalen Hill Cemetery near

Features / 4 July 2024

After the Tory rout — a new stage of working-class struggle?

4 July 2024

As Starmer heads for a historic win, voter apathy and distrust in the political system reach new heights. The real battle for working-class interests lies beyond Westminster, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS

Trade unionists march through Derby city centre

Features / 8 June 2024

Derby honours silk workers’ bitter lockout battle

8 June 2024

The annual Silk Mill Festival celebrates the first-ever industrial workers’ strike in Britain, which, although it ended in defeat, laid the template for today’s union movement, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS

A mural commemorating the lockout, painted in the mid-80s, o

Features / 6 June 2024

Derby Silk Mill Festival – from 1834 to 2024

6 June 2024

BILL GREENSHIELDS looks ahead to a lively event this weekend which draws the parallels of working-class struggle from the 19th century to today

Alstom’s success in France owes much to the fact that rail

Features / 25 November 2023

Alstom shoots itself in the foot (both actually)

25 November 2023

BILL GREENSHIELDS looks at the background of the threat to engineering jobs in Derby's Alstom plant

Features / 1 October 2021

Demonstrations are not enough

1 October 2021

Big protests can inspire us with a show of strength, but it’s the day-to-day organising in our workplaces and our communities that will make the difference, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS

Features / 21 May 2021

We need unity to resist the scourge of unemployment

21 May 2021

BILL GREENSHIELDS previews two forthcoming events to help organise and build strength as job ‘losses’ mount amid the Covid crisis

Features / 31 August 2020

How legitimate anger is at risk of being channelled in bizarre and dangerous directions

31 August 2020

Growing populism is a sign that the working-class labour and progressive movement must give a clear and direct lead in terms of why we are where we are and what needs to be done, warns BILL GREENSHIELDS

Every union at every level from the workplace upwards needs

Features / 17 August 2020

The working class needs a historic upsurge of resistance

17 August 2020

How do we organise across our unions and communities to stop job losses in the face of allegedly ‘inevitable’ mass unemployment, asks BILL GREENSHIELDS