What next for the strike wave? Workplace struggle before and after the election

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…

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June 6, 2024

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…

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‘Hotel Workers Battling in New York Against all the Forces of Reaction’ by Frank Pease from Solidarity. Vol. 4 No. 5. January 25, 1913.

06/07/2024 Revolution’s Newsstand ‘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…

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‘For a Workers’ Theatre’ by Moissaye Olgin from the Daily Worker Saturday Supplement. Vol. 4 No. 68 & 74. April 2 & 9, 1927.

Culture is a fundamental field of battle in the necessary transformation, without which revolutions are impossible, of the working class from a ‘class in itself’ to a ‘class for itself’. ‘Artistic’ vehicles like film dominate the presentation of dominant ideas today. Previously, it was theater. Moissaye Olgin looks at the state of artistic production and presents these seven theses for the establishment of a workers’ theater in the U.S. ‘For a Workers’ Theatre’ by Moissaye Olgin from the Daily Worker Saturday Supplement. Vol. 4 No. 68 & 74. April 2…

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“LET’S RENT A TRAIN!”

Life in the Toronto Branch of the League for Socialist Action, 1961-1977 – video 93 minutes – “LET’S RENT A TRAIN!” is an unprecedented historical film about the rise and fall of a militant revolutionary group that profoundly altered Canada’s political landscape. During the social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s, several hundred highly disciplined activists led Canada’s antiwar movement against the U.S. invasion of Vietnam, and exposed Ottawa’s financial and diplomatic complicity with the Pentagon. The League for Socialist Action (LSA), also played a key role in winning the…

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Excellent and huge news! Resolution sponsored by NMU Palestinian Solidarity Organization (an affiliate of the SA BDS Coalition).

Resolution – 6 May 2024 Believing that the worsening situation in Gaza and the urgency of taking measures to achieve lasting peace, places a responsibility on all academic institutions to respond to this ongoing crisis. Senate therefore resolved to: Support the call for an immediate ceasefire and the free flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza, unhindered by the Israeli Defence Force and Israeli civilians. Demand the return of captured civilians and political prisoners who have not been found guilty of any gross human rights violations by impartial courts of law…

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