Tag: strikes

Video: Redskins – A flame that can’t be dimmed

This ten minute film pays tribute to the revolutionary rock and soul band Redskins. 

Manchester housing maintenance workers strike

Report from the ongoing Manchester strike for pay parity and against housing maintenance on the cheap

‘There are no foreigners here except the bosses’: Precarious workers strike back

Leo Zeilig, author of An Ounce of Practice (Hoperoad, 2017), describes recent precarious workers' strikes at the University of London. By eight in the morning on Tuesday last week it had already been raining for...

Review: An Ounce of Practice

Heike Becker reviews An Ounce of Practice by Leo Zeilig, discussing the themes of love, resilience and pragmatism across a varied theatres of activism.
Striking workers outside the Ritzy cinema. Keywords: what is picketing strikes

revolutionary reflections | The Upturn/Downturn Debate: An Introduction

Ian Allinson summarises a debate on the development of capitalism since 1968, and how this has impacted the working class and its struggles, in an attempt to address the question of what revolutionaries should...

On the Picket Line at East Dulwich Picturehouse

At 1pm on Saturday 15 April, staff at East Dulwich Picturehouse walked out of work, demanding the London Living Wage, union recognition, and adequate pay for sickness and parental leave.

Review: The Battle of Grangemouth: A Worker’s Story

In late October 2013, workers at the Ineos twin plant at Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, suffered an epic defeat, which in terms of the sacking of site stewards, the scrapping of the pension scheme and the...

8 Radical Actions across the UK and Ireland for International Women’s Day

A hundred years ago in Russia, huge numbers of women used International Working Women's Day to strike for food and better conditions, and sparked a movement that would ultimately overthrow the tsar and completely reorder...
Strikers on the picket line at Hackney Picturehouse

Video report: Cinema workers strike for Living Wage

Colin Wilson reports from the picket line in Hackney, in east London. Workers at Hackney Picturehouse are on strike from Friday to Sunday after spending years trying to get their managers to address employees' concerns. Their...
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Durham Teaching Assistants – an inspiring struggle

Durham Teaching Assistants in UNISON are fighting against plans to cut their pay by 23% - plan backed up with a threat from the Labour Council to dismiss all 2700 of them and make...