Schlagwort: Strike

  • Peter Taaffe: The British Trade Unions – The Giant Awakens!

    (Militant International Review, No. 7, 1973, p. 2-16) By Peter Taaffe „There is no power in the world which could for a day resist the British working class organised as a body.“ Thus wrote Frederick Engels 92 years ago in an article dealing with the British unions. Yet there is nothing more ‚modern‘, nothing which…

  • Peter Taaffe: Which way for American Blacks?

    (Militant International Review, No. 5, January 1972, p. 10-19) By Peter Taaffe The assassination of George Jackson in San Quentin prison in August to be followed three weeks later with the brutal massacre of predominantly black prisoners at Attica Prison, New York, have aroused the anger of the World Labour Movement at the horrifying conditions…

  • Lynn Walsh: Trade union rights for police

    [Militant No. 571, 3rd October 1981, p. 9] Workers taking industrial action – particularly when organising picketing, a vital trade union right – have time and again come into conflict with the police. With the Tones‘ new anti-trade union legislation, and the threat of worse to come with Norman Tebbit at the Department of Employment,…

  • Lynn Walsh: Victory for US unions

    [Socialism Today, No 22, October 1997, p. 22-27] Teamsters Rock UPS Picket lines turned into celebrations on 19 August, when the provisional agreement with UPS was announced. Through determined, united action, 185,000 Teamsters had defeated Big Brown, the Universal Parcel Service of America, Inc. Lynn Walsh reports. “Outside the UPS depot on the West Side…