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Unions: first, last and best line of defence

24th March 202024th March 20201 year ago Scottish Left Review 211 Views Mike Kirby, public services, UNISON, workers 4 min read

Mike Kirby surveys the terrain on which the battle to defend public services and their workers will be fought The

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Microphones, megaphones and class

17th January 202017th January 20201 year ago SLR 251 Views Albert Brenchat Aguilar, holiday pay, parental leave, parental leave and pension, pension, retire in poverty, sick pay, UCL, University College London, workers 4 min read

Albert Brenchat Aguilar recounts the unseen and forgotten workers that make conference happen and their fightback I dish nibbles and

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On the frontline: crushed by corporate capitalist culture

20th May 201920th May 20192 years ago SLR 788 Views bullying behaviour, fighting back, managers, Pret, Pret-A-Manger, workers, workplace 9 min read

‘Late Night Girl’ tells of the bullying behaviour at work she suffered and how she is fighting back. My story

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Let’s have a just transition for public service workers too

18th March 201918th March 20192 years ago SLR 263 Views digital dividends, HMRC, Just Transition, Redistribution, STUC, workers 5 min read

Whether by design or default, Lynn Henderson calls for redistribution of the digital dividends Automation, digitalisation and data are the

Good Jobs and Healthy Communities

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Just Transitioning – marrying environment protection and social justice

14th January 20192 years ago SLR 564 Views coal and steel industries, GMB, high carbon economy transitions, industrial policy, Just Transition, Just Transition Commission, Just Transition for Energy Workers, low carbon economy, Prospect, STUC, unions, UNISON and Unite, workers 8 min read

Stephen Smellie lays out what is meant by Just Transition and what role unions have to play. The concept of

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Helping capitalism dig its own grave

12th November 201819th June 20203 years ago SLR 269 Views Brexit, Capitalism, EEA, EU, free trade, Germany, globalisation, Marx, Trump, workers, working class 8 min read

George Kerevan sets out his socialist position in the context of the contradictions of capitalism WHAT position should socialists advance

Book Review

Book Review – Contemporary Trotskyism

12th November 20183 years ago SLR 240 Views doctrine, Leon Trotsky, orthodoxy, sectarianism, Socialist Party, SWP, Trotskyists, unions, workers 2 min read

John Kelly Contemporary Trotskyism: Parties, Sects and Social Movements in Britain, 2018, Routledge, 9781138943810, £23.99, pp296 Reviewed by Gordon Morgan