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…
International Class War Prisoners Aid (IWCWPA) 1920s
International Class War Prisoners Aid mid 1920’s
Bread & Roses Pub – Clapham
Sino-British Solidarity 1925-1926
Banner from the Chinese trade unionists in Canton-Hong Kong to British miners
Tom Mann (Right) William Paul (Left)
The strike in China lasted 16 months from June 1925 – October 1926Read more…
1920 First International Football Match – Moscow V British-American
Moscow V British-American Communist’s
In 1920 the first football match after the 1917 Revolution was played between a British-American team and a Moscow team. Despite the British-American boasting…Read more…
Chile Solidarity Campaign
WW2 Soldiers on the London Underground
WW2 Soldiers on the London Underground Read more…
The crisis in the Steel industry is bigger than it appears at first sight:
Tata Steel production in the UK To give an idea of the scale of Tata Steel in the UK: The firm has 17,000 employees. In Motherwell: Dalzell rolling mill and Clydebridge coating plant – the…Read more…
Ystradgynlais Miners Support Group – LGSM
Claudia Jones – Organiser 1965
Prentis listens and corrects error. Better late than never.
http://www.votedaveprentis.org.uk/nomination-news-and-next-steps-in-the-campaign/
The link above reveals that the wording of a blog post on the campaign website of Dave Prentis, originally posted dated three days ago has been amended today to correct misinformation about UNISON’s election…Read more…
What did Cuba do when it Nationalised?
LAWS 890 AND 891 APPROVED 55 YEARS AGO Nationalization means to put under the nation’s control October 1960 saw the approval of Laws 890 and 891 on the nationalization via expropriation of all…Read more…
Trade Union Bill: Parliamentary Lobby – 2 November 2015
I have just sent my MP, Lyn Brown, a message via the UNISON website asking to meet and lobby her over the Conservative anti-trade bill at the TUC event being organised for Monday 2 November.
If you have a Labour MP (who are opposed to the bill) y…Read more…