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Long-planned and organised annual Derby Silk Mill Lockout March, Rally and People’s Festival /Pic: Author supplied
PREVIEW / 23 April 2025
Focus on Midlands as Derby’s history and hospitality await
23 April 2025

BILL GREENSHIELDS invites all and sundry to this years’ Derby Silk Mill Lockout March, Rally and People’s Festival on June 7

UNITED WE STAND: A lantern parade in Liverpool marks the reopening of Spellow Community Hub and Library after it was torched during riots in August 2024
Politics / 16 May 2025
As the crisis of capitalism widens so do the dangers to democracy
16 May 2025

BILL GREENSHIELDS urges an intensification of the information offensive against the impact of the spurious discourse peddled by Reform UK

French President Emmanuel Macron gestures at the Elysee Pala
Features / 30 August 2024
Macron is solely responsible for the deadlock in French politics
30 August 2024
BILL GREENSHIELDS reviews the president's contortions as he tries to avoid appointing a government of the election-winning New Popular Front
A sign for a polling station at Magdalen Hill Cemetery near
Features / 4 July 2024
After the Tory rout — a new stage of working-class struggle?
4 July 2024
As Starmer heads for a historic win, voter apathy and distrust in the political system reach new heights. The real battle for working-class interests lies beyond Westminster, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS
Trade unionists march through Derby city centre
Features / 8 June 2024
Derby honours silk workers’ bitter lockout battle
8 June 2024
The annual Silk Mill Festival celebrates the first-ever industrial workers’ strike in Britain, which, although it ended in defeat, laid the template for today’s union movement, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS
A mural commemorating the lockout, painted in the mid-80s, o
Features / 6 June 2024
Derby Silk Mill Festival – from 1834 to 2024
6 June 2024
BILL GREENSHIELDS looks ahead to a lively event this weekend which draws the parallels of working-class struggle from the 19th century to today
Alstom’s success in France owes much to the fact that rail
Features / 25 November 2023
Alstom shoots itself in the foot (both actually)
25 November 2023
BILL GREENSHIELDS looks at the background of the threat to engineering jobs in Derby's Alstom plant
Features / 1 October 2021
Demonstrations are not enough
1 October 2021
Big protests can inspire us with a show of strength, but it’s the day-to-day organising in our workplaces and our communities that will make the difference, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS
Features / 21 May 2021
We need unity to resist the scourge of unemployment
21 May 2021
BILL GREENSHIELDS previews two forthcoming events to help organise and build strength as job ‘losses’ mount amid the Covid crisis
Features / 31 August 2020
How legitimate anger is at risk of being channelled in bizarre and dangerous directions
31 August 2020
Growing populism is a sign that the working-class labour and progressive movement must give a clear and direct lead in terms of why we are where we are and what needs to be done, warns BILL GREENSHIELDS
Every union at every level from the workplace upwards needs
Features / 17 August 2020
The working class needs a historic upsurge of resistance
17 August 2020
How do we organise across our unions and communities to stop job losses in the face of allegedly ‘inevitable’ mass unemployment, asks BILL GREENSHIELDS
Features / 15 January 2020
It’s class struggle, not obsession over Labour’s next leader, that will build socialism
15 January 2020
No individual or ‘left collective’ can withstand a sustained ruling-class war of annihilation – which is why we must gain strength by organising in our workplaces and communities, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS
Mark O'Neill (centre)
Features / 19 December 2019
Remembering Mark O'Neill, communist, internationalist and educationalist
19 December 2019
Cartoon: Peet
Features / 13 December 2019
Labour is taught a class lesson
13 December 2019
In the aftermath of Labour’s defeat BILL GREENSHIELDS explains why it happened, cautions against rushed judgements and shows the way forward
Features / 27 September 2019
No-one believes the lies about austerity being necessary any more
27 September 2019
But the real battle against our corrupt and ruthless ruling class is just beginning, says BILL GREENSHIELDS
Features / 11 July 2019
Build up the maximum pressure for a general election
11 July 2019
The British people certainly do not need either Johnson or Hunt – they need a chance to go to the polls and reject austerity, says BILL GREENSHIELDS of the People’s Assembly
Features / 12 January 2019
Today’s demonstration is different to those that went before. It has in it the seeds and promise of change
12 January 2019
BILL GREENSHIELDS explains why People’s Assembly activists are hitting the streets of London today