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Strikes

When workers fight for our environment

Posted on 9th October 2020 by Richard Donnelly

The role of trade unions and organised labour in preventing catastrophic climate change is a burgeoning field of research.1 Many academic contributions investigate climate policy issues but leave aside discussion of workers’ action.2 In contrast, this article focuses on past… Continue Reading →

Article Climate change, Ecology, Environment, Strikes, Working class

Covid-19: the battle in the workplace

Posted on 8th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A pandemic is first of all a public health crisis. But when containing the infection requires a dramatic reduction in social contact, it rapidly becomes a workplace issue. Under normal circumstances, each day millions of people are concentrated in often… Continue Reading →

Article British working class, coronavirus, Health, Strikes

A new cycle of revolt

Posted on 16th December 2019 by Richard Donnelly

The year just passed marks the beginning of a new global cycle of revolt. The signs were there by spring.1 By April the Algerian and Sudanese militaries felt obliged to remove the leaders of each country, respectively Abdelaziz Bouteflika and… Continue Reading →

Analysis Bolivia, Chile, Hong Kong, Iraq, Lebanon, Strikes, Sudan

Striking continuity amid great change

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

Along with Mark O’Brien and several other authors in this journal, I am ­anxious to understand what lay behind the dramatic drop in UK strike activity from the late 1970s to the early 1990s and the extremely low level ever… Continue Reading →

Feedback Strikes, Trade unions

Breaking points and rank and file moments: reaching the limits of “legalism” in industrial action

Posted on 2nd January 2019 by Camilla

My article “What has happened to the British Labour Movement, and what does it mean for the left in the Unions?”1 has attracted two critical responses in this journal.2 I am grateful to the authors of these papers for their… Continue Reading →

Article Strikes, trade unionism, UCU

Revolutionaries and trade unions: a reply to Mark O’Brien

Posted on 2nd July 2018 by Camilla

Mark O’Brien’s article in issue 157 of International Socialism, “What has Happened to the British Labour Movement and What Does it Mean for the Left in the Unions?”, adds to the debates in this journal over the last number of… Continue Reading →

Feedback Strikes, Trade union bureaucracy, Trade unions

Fourteen days that shook the universities

Posted on 2nd July 2018 by Camilla

In February to March 2018, tens of thousands of university workers in the University and College Union (UCU) at 65 institutions in higher education took 14 days of strike action, in what was the biggest universities strike ever. The strike… Continue Reading →

Article Education, Strikes, Trade unions, UCU

Why trade union legislation and the Labour Party are not responsible for the decline in strike activity

Posted on 19th April 2018 by Camilla

Making sense of the continuing low level of strike activity in the UK takes on greater urgency with the publication of provisional figures for 2017. These show record lows—by some margin—for two of the three main indicators: number of strikes… Continue Reading →

Article Strikes, Trade unions

What has happened to the British labour movement and what does it mean for the left in the unions?

Posted on 9th January 2018 by Camilla

From the early summer to the early winter of 2017 several industrial action campaigns were making the news, both nationally and at more regional and local levels. Rail workers employed by Mersey Rail, Northern Rail and Southern Rail were mounting… Continue Reading →

Article anti-trade union laws, Strikes, Trade unions

Africa: ‘There is fire here’

Posted on 10th January 2017 by Camilla

Towards the end of the 1980s and early 1990s strikes, riots and demonstrations forced 19 one-party states in Africa to institutionalise a democratic opposition. But the headlong rush into neo-liberalism and continued structural adjustment policies somewhat de-֊legitimised the ‘birth of… Continue Reading →

Article Africa, neoliberalism, Strikes

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