US-based labour and social movements authors and organisers Robert Ovetz and James Tracy interview DANIEL GROSS about his new book, Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World
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Remember: many of today’s high-profile campaigns began at the grassroots
Cleaners and civil servants protest outside the Foreign Office, 2013
JOHN CALLOW introduces the work of Geoffrey Trease, who placed ordinary people at the centre of his historical fiction for children, creating adventurous stories to inspire the possibilities of social change
The Isle of Wight’s Victorian holiday boom drew visitors from across Europe, including the founders of scientific socialism, writes KEITH FLETT
The campaign against the Bank of England’s ongoing theft of Venezuelan gold is gaining support across the labour movement and beyond, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Unless ministers match reform with investment, the profession and the people it serves will continue to bear the cost, says KATE RAMSDEN
Claims that Nicaragua has abolished elections followed a headline that stripped Daniel Ortega’s remarks of their historical and political context. The full speech tells a different story, says BECCA RENK FOSTER
THINK back to recent campaigns such as miscarriages of justice, the living wage campaign, the anti-road expansion and peace protests.
All began in the margins. The people and institutions in the centre ground simply did not want to hear.
On miscarriages of justice, friends and family of those convicted in big cases like the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four campaigned to get their voices heard.
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