LESSONS OF THE BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE 1926 - A Workers’ International Network meeting - JULY 2022 - YouTube Hear from John Byrne, Former GEC Manchester Openshaw shop steward and member of AUEW District Committee, and former Manchester city councillor. After more than a decade of harsh cuts, facing a soaring inflation rate of 11% and an immediate threat to the food and fuel needs … [Read more...]
A Strategy for Solidarity: Support in Struggle
The rise of the world economy, spluttering and uncertain in the pandemic, is creating the conditions for mass strike movements. A wave of industrial action called Striketober is hitting the USA; in South Africa the metal strike has just ended in victory; in Italy casualized workers in FEDEX are on strike; the Korean trade federation has launched a general strike to defend union rights.Many of … [Read more...]
THE GREAT MINERS STRIKE: 35 YEARS ON
Article By John Dunn (Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign) Heard the one about the miners being defeated? 35 years ago the National Union of Mineworkers were fighting, as was later proven, a titanic fight for survival, not only for the union, but for the mining industry, their communities and ultimately for future generations. Now there is not a single pit left in Britain. Formerly … [Read more...]