Speakers in Berlin traced how Germany’s rearmament, US-led violence abroad and the repression of solidarity at home are converging in a dangerous drive toward war. BEN CHACKO reports
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Workers strike back!
The most powerful tool of organised labour is the strike but there is no record kept of where these actions are taking place. Strike Map UK want to change that, write HENRY FOWLER and ROBERT POOLE
Ahead of an important CND webinar, ULRIKE EIFLER argues that militarisation is not only draining social budgets — it is reshaping everyday life, preparing society for war and demanding a socialist response rooted in the labour movement
ALEX GORDON outlines the real battle for workers in Britain and Europe, to break the state capture by arms firms and the new finance-technology capitalists
As Holyrood sets the Budget, the gulf between rich and poor is wider than ever. PETER OLECH of Unite Community Scotland argues that only by taxing extreme wealth can we properly fund public services and deliver justice for working-class communities
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland has little to do with self-determination and far more to do with strategy, offering Israel a potential military foothold near Yemen, says JE ROSENBERG
Statement of the Tudeh Party of Iran
TWENTY twenty has shown us, if nothing else, the value of belonging to a union. When our bosses and our government let us down it’s to our unions we turned.
The most powerful tool at the disposal of organised labour is the strike. The strike serves many purposes including: demanding concessions of capital, and perhaps more importantly, realising worker power through disrupting capital through what Tronti referred to as a “refusal to work.”
Strikes develop class consciousness and by emphasising the collective power of workers they build solidarity.
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