Teachers’ union conference battles over pay strikes
Palestine, pay cuts and protest: NEU activists challenge the union’s bureaucracy in the face of another expected real terms pay cut.
The Courtaulds strike of 1965 – Black workers fighting back
Sue Sparks of the IS History Project uncovers the history of one of the first Black workers’ strikes against racism in the 1960s.
Here We Go! Forty years on from the outbreak of the Great Strike
Forty years ago today British miners began industrial action in what became the longest and most bitter strike of the twentieth century. Here Brian Parkin, a former Research Officer for the National Union of Mineworkers, gives a brief introduction to this pivotal strike.
The Post Office scandal is typical of today’s Britain
“The light in this darkness is that people are standing up and demanding justice.”
Do workers in the Global North benefit from the exploitation of workers in the South?
Charlie Post argues that imperialism has intensified exploitation across the entire global working class
Who should be UCU’s next general secretary?
rs21 members in UCU discuss the candidates and offer their voting recommendations.
Resisting the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act
Ian Allinson discusses the ways workers can resist the government’s latest repressive anti-union legislation.
Latest Department of Education advice is a transphobic attack
“Educators must register their disgust at the guidance while it is in the consultation phase.”
Without organisation, we have nothing: building a rank and file organisation in schools
After a momentous year of workplace struggles, rs21 teachers discuss the need for ongoing rank and file organisation across schools
Labor’s Upsurge and the Search for Workers’ Power
Five hundred thousand workers were on strike in the USA at some point in 2023. Kim Moody explores how the strikes have helped to build power and what to expect in the year to come.
How can workers stop the genocide?
An rs21 arms worker on how the Palestine solidarity movement could stop the flow of weapons to Israel.
Why Palestine is an issue for educators
rs21 teachers argue why educators across the country have a duty to talk about Palestine.
Report from the Global Climate Jobs conference
Critical discussions on the role workers’ organising must play in the transition to a zero carbon economy.
What’s going on in Unite? | Part 2
Unite activist assesses Sharon Graham’s leadership of the union. Part 2.
What’s going on in Unite? | Part 1
A Unite activist assesses Sharon Graham’s leadership of the union. Part 1.
Let them eat steak: voices from a UAW picket line
Dana Cloud reports from a United Auto Workers picket line at a G.M. parts distribution center in Rancho Cucamonga, CA.
Where did all the gravediggers go?
‘A Nation of Shopkeepers’ asks important questions about class in Britain today, but lacks clarity in its answers.
‘Troublemakers at Work’: Why trade unions need a militant rank-and-file
‘Troublemakers’ brought trade unionists and activists together to discuss the importance of a militant rank-and-file.
Popular protest and labour insurgency in Iran
A Tehran-based activist assesses the movement, and the under-reported role of workers’ struggles in the wider street mobilisations.
What the hell is Labour doing?
Despite a commanding lead in the polls, Starmer is still running scared from the Tories.
This is a war against the studios – interviews with picketers in Hollywood
Interviews with striking actors and writers in Hollywood.
School strikes: results and prospects
The tragedy of ending the dispute now is squandering the momentum and resolve we have built.
Base rate rises, housing crises?
‘We need to fight back together and find solidarity across lines that have previously been staged as battle lines.’
‘Lack and longing’: an interview with Satnam Virdee and Brendan McGeever
Satnam Virdee and Brendan McGeever answer questions about race, nation, working class struggle and the breakdown of Britain’s democratic settlement.
Why is the NEU recommending a bad deal?
rs21 teachers explain what has happened in the NEU and what we can do about it.
What is the potential for rank-and-file organisation today?
There is renewed interest in rank-and-file organisation, but confusion about what this means and what is possible.
Tyrone O’Sullivan: the gentle giant of the last deep coal mine in South Wales
On the afternoon of 27 May Tyrone O’Sullivan of Tower Colliery died peacefully at home, in his garden, aged 77. Here Brian Parkin pays tribute to a friend and comrade, who through a combination of fire and gentle persuasion, led a community of mining families into a fight to save the last deep coal mine in South Wales.
School strikes update: what we need to do to win
The NEU has called new strikes in England on 5 and 7 July in pursuit of their pay claim. Here’s how we win the dispute.
Fighting on for higher pay in the NHS
As junior doctors in the BMA prepare for three days of strike action this week, the pay fight isn’t over across the health service.