BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
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
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research explores the factors that are bringing today’s highly educated but often underemployed young people out onto the streets, from Chile, to Algeria, to Nepal
The nation’s leading second-hand socialist bookseller that has been running strong for 33 years is changing hands and expanding its vision — now is the time to get involved, buy, donate and support, writes ANDREW MURRAY
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.
Similar stories
Ben Cowles speaks with IAN ‘TREE’ ROBINSON and ANDY DAVIES, two of the string pullers behind the Manchester Punk Festival, ahead of its 10th year show later this month
Read Sisters, the journal of the National Assembly Of Women, below.
The Morning Star sorts the good eggs from the rotten scoundrels of the year
Two new releases from Burkina Faso and Niger, one from French-based Afro Latin The Bongo Hop, and rare Mexican bootlegs