Struggle and Strategy in the Platform Economy
As workers in the platform economy fight back how can sporadic, dispersed strikes be turned into a sustainable movement?
May Day private hire drivers strike
Private hire drivers around Britain and internationally took strike action on 1 May
Interview with Scottish Water strikers
Some of the women on the Glasgow picket line spoke to rs21 about their strike
Fighting for union recognition in Sheffield
Unite members at the Veolia waste plant in Sheffield have been on strike for eight months for union recognition
University crisis – Dundee UCU fights back
How the UCU strike in the face of the threat of massive job losses at Dundee University has shifted the agenda
Higher education in crisis – what now for UCU?
As massive cuts and redundancies are threatened across the university sector – how can we build the fightback?
What trade unionism? A transport strike case study
A case study of a dispute which illustrates the impact of different models of trade unionism and some of the challenges facing workplace activists.
Greater Manchester mental health early intervention service strike
Video report from the Greater Manchester mental health early intervention service strike picket line
Nigerian government unleashes massive repression after #EndHunger protests
Mass arrests in Nigeria target those involved in #EndHunger protests.
Ireland today: interview with Goretti Horgan and Eamonn McCann
Pat Stack talks to Derry based socialists Goretti Horgan and Eamonn McCann
Sussex Academy Trust faces strike from angry workforce – UBAT strike report
Lou Hayton reports from one of the picket lines where Sussex NEU members are fighting back against the University of Brighton Academies Trust
Green class struggle: workers and the just transition
Climate politics is not the playground of distant elites, but a field where collective action is decisive.
1974 – an end and a beginning
Willie Black looks back at 1974. A pivotal year both in Britain and across the world – high points of workers’ struggles, but also the beginning of five decades of neo-liberalism
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.
Resisting the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act
Ian Allinson discusses the ways workers can resist the government’s latest repressive anti-union legislation.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
‘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.
A World to Win: rs21 All Member Assembly report
rs21 organised A World to Win as part of our All Member Assembly. We discussed the new right, climate breakdown and the strike wave.
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.
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.