Steel, Not Steal! Keep Stelco Producing! Let’s Make It Happen! U.S. Steel’s insistence on severing its equity ownership of Stelco and turning it into a simple claim of debt on itself and…Read more…
Canada: Stelco Steel: Crisis in U.S. Steel:
Steel, Not Steal! Keep Stelco Producing! Let’s Make It Happen! U.S. Steel’s insistence on severing its equity ownership of Stelco and turning it into a simple claim of debt on itself and…Read more…
Thousands of Tata Steel jobs face heap
Peter Lazenby Morning Star Crisis looms for industry as factories expected to announce cuts THE future of Britain’s struggling steel industry was dealt another blow yesterday as India-owned Tata…Read more…
Roger Bannister – Sixth Time Lucky? (No)
To some the name Roger Bannister means the four minute mile. To others it means the perennial candidate for General Secretary of UNISON, who knows he can do well but that he will never win.
And he’s still at it.Although Roger Bannister barely scraped the twenty five branch nominations which are…Read more…
European Parliament latest to slam Thailand for harassing Andy Hall
Andy Hall, the British-born, Thailand-based migrant and trade union rights advocate, is back in court on Monday, 19 October. The latest court hearing is to decide whether to indict him for criminal…Read more…
The Devolution Deception
Osborne’s devo drive is about shifting the blame for austerity to powerless councils rather than broadening Britain’s democracy, believes GMB’s TIM ROACHE BEING handed the power to control services…Read more…
Our Tory Housing Future
Please read (and then weep) this examination of the new Tory Housing and Planning Bill on the blog Red Brick. In housing, as with the cuts in child tax credits, I don’t think that people “get” just how right wing and extremist this Government is behavi…Read more…
Solidarity! UNISON health workers join doctors’ rally in Belfast
Union members back fellow workers’ campaign for better conditionsRead more…
Unions call for government to save steel industry after latest jobs blow
A further 1,200 jobs expected to go in Scunthorpe following 2,000 lost in RedcarRead more…
ASLEF remembers those who died at Hatfield 15 years ago today
Union says we should also remember the lessons learned in a safety-critical industryRead more…
Warrington Print Workers Dispute 1983
Anarchist Holiday Camp 1915 – Wales
Anarchist holiday camp at Harlech (Wales) in 1915. The camp was
situated by the house of wealthy anarchist George Davison and it later
became Coleg Harlech.
Davison also financed Communist Clubs…Read more…
Workers and Soldier’s Petrograd 1917
Workers and Soldiers delegates at Petrograd railway station and taking their place in the DumaRead more…
Hornsey & Wood Green Labour Party 1950’s
International Workers Olympaid Vienna 1931 – Clarion
The International Workers’ Olympiad 1931
Vienna
Vienna July 19th -26th 1931
The Great Britain cycling team was made up six Clarion Cycling Club Cyclists
Name Clarion Club …Read more…
Smithfield Meat Market 1926 General Strike
Hampstead Socialist Sunday School 1956
Equal Pay 1782 and 1951
Co-operative Tea Advert 1928
British troops in Soviet Russia
Troops from HMS Ceres involved in Britain’s interventionist role in protecting white Russian army (made up of those primarily loyal to the Czar) in Russia and evacuating fleeing Russian royalty and…Read more…