Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Is McDonnell’s share plan ‘workers control’?
The 1977 Bullock Report shows we have been here before: will it work this time, and how radical is it, asks KEITH FLETT
WORKERS’ CONTROL: Britain’s largest mechanical puppet, The Man Engine, rises up beside the old pit head at Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall, representing the power of a united working class
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FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
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Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in – and acceptable to – the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell made a number of important announcements at the 2018 Labour Party conference on the subject of industry.
He has said that Labour will give workers in the private sector shares in their business, limited to £500 personally, the remainder to be used to invest in public services. He has also argued that there should be a significant number of workers on company boards, with the proviso that they are trade union members.
Given the unfortunate decline in trade union influence (by no means irreversible) and the power of the large private-sector companies like Amazon and Google, McDonnell’s policies ,if radical by recent standards, are also modest.
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