Park Royal (Acton) Vehicles Shop Stewards Committee Banner
TUC Rally 21 February 1971 Read more…
DATA West London Division 1971
Draughtsmen’s and Allied Technicians’ Association (DATA) West London banner on the TUC march 21st February 1971 against the Industrial Relations Bill
formally The Association of Engineering and…Read more…
NUR Rail Union Banners 1971 TUC "The Great March"
National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) now RMT banners on the TUC Industrial Relations Bill march “The Great March” 21 February 1971
National Union of Railwaymen banners
Glasgow National Union of…Read more…
TUC United Against Racialism March
TUC United Against Racialism march circa 1978/79
(Note Barbara Castle, Harriet Harman, Tessa Jowell, Jo Richardson
photo John StrrockRead more…
South Wales Miners Pageant – May Day 1939
South Wales Miners Federation May Day
Pageant of South Wales
Orgnised by the South Wales Miners Federation in association with the Labour Research Department
1st May 1939Read more…
Atlas Lamps – 1924-1925 British Empire Exhibition – Wembley
GEC Atlas Lamps, 1924-1925 British Empire Exhibition – WembleyRead more…
Kier Hardie – Royal Baby
Socialist Club of Shanghai – Jiang Kanghu
Jiang Kanghu
Native name
江亢虎
Born
July 18, 1883
Yiyang, Jiangxi, China
Died
December 7, 1954 (aged 71)
Shanghai, China
Nationality
Chinese
Jiang Kanghu (Chinese: 江亢虎; pinyin: Jiāng…Read more…
Labour Movement Martyr’s
The Socialist September 1914
Socialist Labour Party
“The
men who to-day are asking you to fight are responsible for killing many
workers by turning the military on them when on…Read more…
Cossor (Highbury) Strike 1949
In 1939 Young women at the Cossor radio factory in Highbury, North London went on strike for 2d
an hour wage rise.
Cossor’s had switched to developing radar during the war but had…Read more…
Middlesex Civil Defence ARP – Wembley 1942
Middlesex Civil Defence – Wembley Stadium 18th October 1942
“March Past”
Hurbert Morrison and Eileen Wilkinson MPRead more…
The Nature of the State – Mirage of Elections
The Nature of the State
American United CP – 12 June 1920
In every historical epoque the existing government – the State – has been the organ of coercion used by the ruling class to keep the…Read more…
Rail Rank & File – A Short History 1900-1917
Railway workers notes
L. Ever Before the 20th century railwaymen were considered to be the most submissive section of the wage workers.While miners and engineers had strikes the railroad…Read more…
100 Years Ago – Black People’s Rising in Danish West Indies
100 Years ago (November 1995) Black Rising in Danish West Indies led by David Hamilton (1884-1946) – The Rising effectively forced the Danish Government to sell the islands to America (US…Read more…
The London Dockers – TGWU 1949
Britain’s transport workers have long and great traditions of struggle. Those traditions will certainly be remembered this week at the 13th biannual conference of the Transport and General Workers…Read more…
Socialist Dundee Toffee
July 1949
Toffee on the hearth
Sweets
off the ration are hard to get and permission to sell cakes again at
bazaars opens up the most enticing vista of profitable work for Daily Worker bazaars…Read more…
"Packers" at English Football 1939
Lost to history – The role of “packers” at English Football matches (to ensure maximum attendance and basic safety)
This picture from the daily Worker August 1939
One of the joys of English…Read more…
The First May Day 1890 poem
The First May Day
Punch 3rd May 1890
A universal movement in favour of shorter hours would seem
best fitted to secure the amelioration of the labourer’s lot.
The Times.
Enthusiastic Operative to…Read more…
McCarthyism at John Lewis Partnership 1949
In April 1949, The
John Lewis Partnership central council voted 60 to 34 to adopt a
recommendation that in future all employees should be asked to sign a declaration
that they are neither members…Read more…
Social Democratic Party – StGeorge’s & Wapping Banner
Members of the Social Democratic Party (formally Social Democratic Federation pre 1908) selling their journal Justice Read more…