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

Posted on 15th April 2022 by Richard Donnelly

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

Revolutionary syndicalism and The Miners’ Next Step

Posted on 26th July 2021 by Richard Donnelly

The Miners’ Next Step and the movement it created throughout the coalfield gave me the inspiration I had been looking for… The conception of working-class power was far more realistic to me than the idea of merely fighting for seats… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Labour Party, trade unionism

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

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
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