Strike militancy and escalation

Eben Dombay Williams writes about what workers in Britain can learn from the protests in France, and how we can increase trade union militancy

Scottish trade unionists in Ukraine, 1951

Nathan Hennebry examines a 1951 report written by a delegation of Scottish trade unionists who travelled to Ukraine to learn about life as a worker under socialism

Profiting from care report

social care. Profiting From Care: Why Scotland Can’t Afford Privatised Social Care investigates the failures of the private sector in the provision of social care. It has been produced off the back of the assertion made by the Feeley Report and the Scottish Government more generally that in a future National Care Service (NCS) that care outcomes are not affected by ownership. 

Striking rail workers vilified by establishment

This week begins one of the largest strikes of railway workers since 1989, as 50,000 RMT members and associated workers walk out on three separate days over disputes on pay freezes, non-compulsory redundancies, and in a separate dispute over pensions and job losses from the London Underground workers

RMT union holds annual conference in Leeds

On Monday, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) opened their annual general meeting in Leeds. Addressing members, General Secretary Mick Lynch warned that the Conservative government is set to recoup the billions of pounds it spent fighting Covid-19 by attacking workers