Month: June 2024

Troublemakers At Work is holding an online public meeting at 7:30pm on Wednesday 26 June. Register now The surge in strikes which began in 2021 has declined from its peak, but strikes remain at higher levels than before. We saw some good wins, while other disputes ended with poor deals or fizzled out. The train drivers’ and junior doctors’ disputes, along with many smaller strikes, continue. There has been no real breakthrough and the impact on union membership and organisation has been uneven. All this is happening in the context of big political issues like Gaza and climate? What can we learn from the strike wave? What kind of organisations and perspectives do we need to transform our unions? How is the election shaping industrial struggle? How do we build resistan...

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The Drums of War are Banging in Europe by Miguel Urban, Eric Toussaint and Paul Murphy Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair These weeks see the end of the term for an ineffectual European legislature which served during the worst pandemic of this century, during Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and with it, the outbreak of a war on European soil that evokes the worst memories of the world wars of the last century. And as we witness the televised genocide of the Palestinian people, it appears that the international system of liberal governance seems to be collapsing like a house of cards. The next parliamentary term is unlikely to improve the continent and world, but instead will accelerate the most damaging processes: the rise of the far right, remilitarisation, the retur...

06/07/2024 Revolution's Newsstand Striking hotel workers, 1913. ‘Hotel Workers Battling in New York Against all the Forces of Reaction’ by Frank Pease from Solidarity. Vol. 4 No. 5. January 25, 1913. I.W.W. Influence Predominating. (Special to Solidarity.) New York, Jan. 17. The International Hotel Workers’ Union, an organization of hotel and restaurant workers with a membership of 25,000, has been on strike in the city of New York for the past week. The strike was called to protest against certain conditions that prevail in this industry. These conditions are: insufficient pay, long hours, poor food, unsanitary conditions where these workers eat, where their clothes are stored during work hours, toilet, etc., and the intervention of the employment shark between the workers and...