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Strikes

Striking back in the “world’s factory”

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

A review of Hao Ren, Eli Friedman and Zhongjin Li (editors), China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance (Haymarket, 2016),£15.99 China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance is an exciting and illuminating book focused on the labour struggles waged by… Continue Reading →

Book reviews China, Strikes, the working class

Once more on strikes: a reply to critics

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

When I wrote “Why Are There So Few Strikes?”1 I expected that it would generate some discussion. I was not prepared, though, for the huge number of words and length of time taken up by responses. In addition to numerous… Continue Reading →

Feedback Strikes, the working class

Official and unofficial action in the fight against anti-union laws

Posted on 22nd June 2016 by Camilla

The Conservative government’s Trade Union Act 2016—in particular the strike balloting threshold provisions—represents the most radical tightening of the rules on industrial action and trade union organisation since the Margaret Thatcher era of the 1980s.1 Notwithstanding the series of significant… Continue Reading →

Article anti-trade union laws, Strikes

Learning the lessons of the past

Posted on 6th January 2016 by Camilla

John Newsinger, Them and Us: Fighting the Class War 1910-1939 (Bookmarks, 2015), £7.99 John Newsinger opens this timely account of working class struggle in the first half of the 20th century with what at first seems an incongruous statement: “We… Continue Reading →

Book reviews 20th century history, Strikes

Strikes, ballots and the class struggle: An addition to the strikes debate

Posted on 6th January 2016 by Camilla

Simon Joyce has helped galvanise a long overdue discussion in International Socialism on the state of workplace class struggle in the UK.1 Though I partially disagree both with his claim that shop stewards have lost control of the strike weapon… Continue Reading →

Article Strikes, trade unionism

Striking debates

Posted on 6th January 2016 by Camilla

Significant discussion has taken place in recent issues of International Socialism, echoing wider debates in the movement, around the persistently low level of industrial struggle in Britain.1 This is part of a wider phenomenon internationally, but the debate in this… Continue Reading →

Article Strikes, trade unionism

Bureaucratic mass strikes: a rejoinder

Posted on 5th October 2015 by Camilla

Mark O’Brien’s article in 2014, “The problem of the one-day strike”,1 was an attempt to understand “the dominance of very short (usually one-day) national, public sector strikes that have typified industrial action in the UK for at least a decade”.2… Continue Reading →

Feedback Mass strikes, Strikes

Revolutionaries in the unions: The reality of the strike

Posted on 6th July 2015 by Camilla

The debate around orientations for revolutionaries in the unions today is the result of an uncomfortable but inescapable fact: the level of trade union struggle has remained historically low for 20 years.1 This is true whether we are considering working… Continue Reading →

Article, Feedback Strikes, Trade unions

Why are there so few strikes?

Posted on 5th January 2015 by ISJ

This article addresses a key issue for socialists: the current low level of strikes.1 As Alex Callinicos recently put it: The absence of any generalised upturn in workers’ struggle isn’t just a negative factor: it actively shapes the situation. Mass… Continue Reading →

Analysis Strikes

A new workers’ movement: the strike wave of 2007

Posted on 31st March 2008 by ISJ

The beginning of the 1990s saw Hosni Mubarak start to implement World Bank and IMF policies, including a “structural adjustment programme”, privatisation and attacks on workers’ rights.1 The old centres of the working class, such as Mahalla, Kafr al-Dawwar and… Continue Reading →

Analysis Egypt, Mass strikes, Strikes

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