1 May – International worker’s Day – is always an occasion to celebrate and to redouble our efforts to organise . This year is particularly important as we approach the 100th anniversary of the 1926 General Strike full of many lessons for the future explains Terry Conway
Part two continues the examination of local government and the shift in power. Richard Hatcher writes.
Mick Gosling criticises the politics of the Communist Party at the time of the 50th anniversary of the General Strike. Reprinted from Red Weekly, 20 May 1976
In the Print is a new play about the battle between the SOGAT trade union and Rupert Murdoch at Wapping in 1986, primarily told from the perspective of Brenda Dean the SOGAT leader, the first woman to run a major British trade union. explains Simon Hannah,
We seek revolutionary transformation to meet the compound crisis of ecological disaster, economic collapse, social decay, grotesque inequality, mass impoverishment, growing militarisation, and creeping authoritarianism.
Gilbert Achcar assesses the situation of the Turmp/Israeli war on Iran
July has been designated Disability Pride Month writes Bob Williams-Findlay. Within a historical context, Disability Pride Month is presented in the following manner: “It originated in the United States to commemorate the passing of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in July 1990. […].