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Trade union bureaucracy

The British labour movement’s halting recovery

Posted on 7th April 2023 by International Socialism

In autumn 1979, Tony Cliff, writing in International Socialism, surveyed the landscape of labour struggle in Britain. He concluded that, in the second half of the 1970s, the balance of forces had tilted in favour of the ruling class.1 A… Continue Reading →

Analysis Britain, British working class, Trade union bureaucracy, Trade unions

Britain’s strike wave: workers on the frontline

Posted on 7th January 2023 by International Socialism

As a part of our ongoing coverage of the emerging strike movement in Britain, Charlie Kimber, editor of the weekly newspaper Socialist Worker, explores recent developments, asking what changed in 2022 and what has stayed the same. His analysis draws… Continue Reading →

Article, Interview British working class, Rank and file, Strikes, Trade union bureaucracy, trade unionism, Trade unions

Jane McAlevey’s organising model: is it a rank and file strategy?

Posted on 15th April 2022 by International Socialism

The union organising model associated with Jane McAlevey has a growing influence among union activists in Britain and internationally.1 As a former union organiser in the United States, and now an advisor to unions and author of several books, her… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Rank and file, Trade union bureaucracy, trade unionism, Trade unions

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

The rank and file and the trade union bureaucracy

Posted on 2nd April 2014 by ISJ

The crucial problem revolutionary socialists in Britain are confronted with at the moment in relation to trade unionism is the big gap that exists between the level of workers’ anger at austerity and employers’ attacks on the one hand, and… Continue Reading →

Analysis Rank and file, Trade union bureaucracy, Trade unions
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