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Published in: Home: AnalysisWhat the ‘Spycops’ inquiry isn’t telling us about state infiltrationThe undercover policing inquiry is downplaying spying on trade unions and government involvement in blacklisting
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Published in: Home: News‘We see you, and we hear you’: Downing Street protest for low-paid workersThe contempt for cleaners and security guards revealed by Sue Gray moved a trade union for the low-paid and migrants...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionEuropean trade unions could send convoys to help Ukraine. Here’s howInternational trade union convoys to Bosnia were a vital reminder that the world cared about the people there and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIn Algeria, a dangerous crackdown on independent trade unionsIndependent trade unionists in Algeria face escalating repression for their role in the ongoing democracy movement.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy I'm talking to white trade unionists about racismWorkplace racism is ruining lives – and in the current climate, unions have big challenges ahead if they're to...
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Published in: TransformationFifty years later, we still have a dreamAs the Poor People’s Campaign arrives in Washington DC it’s time to celebrate Public Service Day.
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Published in: TransformationThe future of trade unionsUnless democracy is reinstated as the movement’s guiding principle, organized labor will fail in any form.
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Published in: TransformationThe US teachers strike in historical perspectivePrevious waves of unrest offer clues to the possible regeneration of the American labor movement.
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Published in: TransformationRaise America inspires a new generation of organizing for low-wage workersLabor unions are beginning to re-focus on continuous community organizing and agitation.
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Published in: TransformationThe good thing about having a disabilityAccepting I was disabled was the first step in becoming a force for change for others, as a feminist, trade unionist...
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Published in: openSecuritySouth Korea: rail workers, repression and resistanceAn almost unreported strike in South Korea, which has just come to an end, epitomises how a ‘free’ market can be...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe crisis of Grangemouth and what it says about Scotland and Britain
The Grangemouth crisis doesn't just remind us of the problems of the capitalist class, but of the political class...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe spirit of youth discontent wasn't dead, just restingWith lecturers on strike, student debt being sold off to the banks, the anger of the 2010 protests is about to make...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHistory is on McCluskey's side: Unite must go beyond the lawAs has happened time and time again, trade unions are being repressed and sidelined, the future of workers' rights...
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Published in: TransformationOrganizing as whole peopleThere are no shortcuts to building the kind of power it takes to win meaningful change. As an organizer in a county...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThis is what 21st century unionism should look likeThe pooling of democratic funds should not be funnelled exclusively into any single party, particularly one so...
