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Disputes highlights

  • Trade unions / Communist work in the trade unions

    Our role is not to take over the bureaucracies but to bring a class-conscious understanding and programme to rank-and-file militants.

    5 May 2025 ,
  • Disputes / Birmingham’s gone bust! But why are workers told to pay?

    No one has explained why some of the most hardworking and essential employees should bear the brunt of a crisis they had no hand in making.

    10 Apr 2025 ,
  • Disputes / Birmingham bin workers expected to pay for council’s bankruptcy

    Some binmen are being told to take an £8k pay cut after national austerity and local mismanagement combined to bankrupt the city.

    3 Apr 2025 , Proletarian
  • Education / Education union colluding with Labour against the workers

    The NEU has thrown in the towel of struggle, betraying not only its own rank-and-file membership but also the wider interests of the working class.

    8 Oct 2024 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / P&O boss admits he couldn’t live on the starvation wage paid to his workers

    Toothless select committee hears how CEO agonised over accepting his £183k bonus after summarily dismissing 800 staff.

    31 May 2024 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Post Office scandal: Trouble on the Horizon

    The power of monopoly laid bare: evidence reveals a picture of tampering with witness statements, falsifying data and coercing would-be whistleblowers.

    21 Jan 2024 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Scottish Water workers vote to strike

    Bosses are trying to force the ‘modernisation’ of pay structures – ie, to enforce ever more draconian pay cuts on workers.

    7 Nov 2023 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Support pay restitution for doctors; defend the NHS!

    The British government is holding both patients and staff to ransom.

    2 Oct 2023 ,
  • Health / Are striking doctors really ‘greedy’ and ‘uncaring’?

    An answer to ‘The Times view on health sector strikes: Uncaring profession’

    21 Sep 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Which way forward for the trade unions now?

    It is time to break out of suffocating ‘unity’ with those who serve our class enemies.

    24 Aug 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Why do so many trade union struggles in Britain fail?

    Teaching union NEU led its members into months of strike action, only to capitulate and accept a below-inflation pay rise. Why?

    14 Aug 2023 , Class Consciousness Project
  • Health / An NHS nurse speaks out on pay, privatisation and demoralisation

    The conditions that have led to a haemorrhaging of trained staff from the health service have not come about by accident and will take a serious fight to reverse.

    18 Jul 2023 , Lalkar
  • Trade unions / Mick Lynch, Sharon Graham and the capitulating left

    As the next election approaches, supposedly ‘radical’ trade unionists are lining up obediently behind Starmer and Labour, against the interests of their members.

    1 Jul 2023 , Class Consciousness Project
  • Pay and conditions / Homeless charity workers on strike for decent wages

    St Mungo’s staff have suffered a 30 percent real-terms pay cut in the last ten years.

    22 Jun 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Model motion: Urgent measures needed to address the cost of living crisis

    Why are workers being asked to pay the cost of a crisis that was not of their making? If capitalism cannot provide for its workforce, then capitalism must go.

    6 Jun 2023 ,
  • Trade unions / Model motion: Defy the anti-trade union laws

    Within the current legal framework, workers’ right to strike in Britain has been all but annulled. This situation must be reversed by means of collective action.

    4 Jun 2023 ,
  • Italy / British delegate in Italy: Our rulers are working to overturn Brexit

    Workers across Europe share the goal of defeating both the EU imperialist bloc and the US-led Nato war machine.

    4 Apr 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / NHS pay offer exposes the limitations of trade unionism

    The NHS dispute has brought into sharp focus the inability of modern trade unions in Britain to advance working-class aims.

    29 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / After the strikes, what then?

    As union leaders look for the exit, their members’ anger is being directed towards yet another diversionary ‘vote Labour’ campaign.

    21 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • France / French workers fight for their pension and retirement rights

    Militant fighting spirit is on display in abundance in France. What is now needed is class-conscious leadership and vision.

    18 Mar 2023 , Lalkar
  • Education / Why I left my first teaching job: ‘No support, no training, no care for the kids’

    This view from a school gives an insight into why so many of our teachers are feeling so demoralised.

    17 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • Education / Support our teachers; save our schools!

    It is not only their present ability to exist that Britain’s teachers are fighting for, but our children’s future.

    14 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Capitalists are causing inflation, not workers!

    It’s time for the hoary old myth about wages causing inflation to be put to bed. Higher wages lead to lower profits, hence the bosses’ opposition.

    29 Jan 2023 ,
  • Civil liberties / Joti Brar on RT: New laws on strikes and protests aim to contain workers’ anger

    Instead of helping workers weather the inflation crisis, our rulers are preparing to suppress any future rebellion.

    16 Jan 2023 , Proletarian TV
  • Disputes / Support our nurses’ struggle for decent pay!

    It is not our hard-pressed medical staff who are greedy, but the privateers who are pushing down their wages in the interests of profit.

    18 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Are Britain’s union bosses interested in helping their members fight back?

    As the crisis deepens, the ruling class is looking far more determined than the unions, where lions continue to be led by loyal Labour donkeys.

    16 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis!

    The capitalists have shown themselves to be entirely unable to run their own system for the benefit of society.

    4 Nov 2022 ,
  • Trade unions / Shameful capitulation of workers’ leadership in face of ‘mourning’ demands

    With hunger, blackouts and war knocking urgently at workers’ doors, our demand should be: ‘Don’t mourn, organise.’

    12 Sep 2022 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Amazon workers against Victorian working conditions and derisory pay

    Despite unions being banned by Amazon, its British staff have been staging wildcat actions in defence of their right to decent pay and conditions.

    11 Sep 2022 , Lalkar
  • Disputes / Support the postal workers!

    Workers at Royal Mail are joining those on the railways and the docks in standing up for pay and conditions.

    24 Aug 2022 , Proletarian
  • Support the Felixstowe dockers!

    Workers at the country’s busiest port are using their collective power to demand a pay rise in line with rampant inflation.

    23 Aug 2022 ,
  • Disputes / Victory to the striking railworkers; defend the right to strike!

    In fighting to save jobs and defend pay, railworkers are in the front line of a desperately-needed push-back against the onslaught of capital.

    22 Jun 2022 ,
  • Disputes / Train strike: Britain could see the largest walk-out since the 1926 general strike

    Meanwhile, the government is considering adding to anti-trade-union legislation to try to outlaw the action before it begins.

    27 May 2022 , Reddit
  • Lay-offs and closures / The day that P&O sacked all its staff: view from a worker in Dover

    When capital makes decisions about its profit margins, it is real people whose lives are destroyed.

    23 Apr 2022 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / P&O sackings: Don’t make workers pay for the capitalist crisis

    The ferry company’s callous treatment of its employees reminds us yet again that the logic of the capitalist system is impervious to the needs of human beings.

    30 Mar 2022 ,
  • Canada / Solidarity with the Freedom Convoy of Canada

    The arteries of the Canadian capital are clogged to the point where Canada’s whole rotten capitalist system is having a heart attack.

    23 Feb 2022 , Proletarian
  • India / The Indian farmers’ magnificent victory

    What lessons can workers everywhere learn from this historic struggle, and how is a decent future to be secured for India’s small farmers?

    5 Jan 2022 , Lalkar
  • Korea / South Korean workers strike for secure work and better living standards

    Strikers demand job security, healthcare, social housing and the right to free assembly in latest class-war skirmish.

    19 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • Health / Derisory pay offer covers further cuts as NHS privatisation reaches new heights

    National clapping and a George Cross have left nurses empty handed as the new health chief helps US profiteers move in.

    2 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • Italy / Workers at the GKN factory in Florence fight back

    Workers demand an end to the dismantling and export of their industries and the protection of their rights to healthcare and a decent environment.

    8 Sep 2021 , Lalkar
  • Economy / Post Office pursued vindictive prosecutions against subpostmasters

    The appeal court victory of 29 of those wrongfully convicted has opened the floodgates for hundreds more claims.

    4 May 2021 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Shrewsbury 24: Justice delayed is justice denied

    Workers must start to organise themselves so as to be able to demand justice now – social justice for all.

    30 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Bringing Kaplan to book: time to get organised in the gig economy

    A reminder that the whole reason for having trade unions is to fight the workers’ corner everywhere.

    21 Feb 2021 ,
  • India / The largest strike the world has ever seen is taking place now in India

    But you wouldn’t know it from Britain’s corporate media and Labour-affiliated trade union leaderships.

    11 Jan 2021 , Lalkar
  • Pay and conditions / Ministry of Justice retreats on sick pay for cleaners

    Victory for struggling cleaners after Emanuel Gomes’s death, who worked for a week with suspected covid and a raging fever.

    24 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Support the Tower Hamlets strikers!

    The Labour-run council plans to sack thousands of workers and re-hire them on dodgy new contracts with worse pay and conditions.

    16 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Drivers resist Goldstar intimidation

    Union-busting haulier cowboys forcing extremely dangerous conditions onto workers.

    6 Jul 2020 ,
  • Disputes / Covid couriers sacked for requesting PPE and social distancing

    Workers responsible for transporting covid test samples from hospitals to labs are being victimised for requesting basic safety measures.

    25 Jun 2020 ,
  • Disputes / Wirral’s binmen to strike?

    Outsourced waste collector Biffa is playing fast and loose with its workers’ pay.

    3 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Lecturers rise against pay cuts and pensions robbery

    The marketisation of education: staff are being sweated so that universities can make fat profits.

    21 Feb 2020 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Union-busting at St Mungo’s homeless charity

    More pressure on workers in the charity sector, where a race to the bottom is well underway.

    4 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / RSPCA: You wouldn’t treat a dog like this

    Despite healthy donations and reserves, the charity is using a minor single-year operational deficit to justify ‘salami-slicing measures‘ on pay and conditions.

    30 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Defend railway pensions!

    Workers have a right to their deferred wages in retirement and to a dignified old age after a lifetime of work.

    27 Jan 2020 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Firefighters victory forces government retreat on public sector pensions

    The FBU has won its case to get former pension rights restored, and the case has wide implications.

    19 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Stand with rail strikers defending passenger safety

    Railway bosses have abandoned the deal that was struck a year ago and are refusing to restart talks without preconditions.

    9 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Support the South Western Railway strike

    Railway workers are fighting to put safety ahead of profit: keep the guard on the train!

    3 Dec 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Royal Mail: high court bans the strike

    For how long will we accept the right of bosses’ courts to decide how workers’ organisations are run?

    26 Nov 2019 , Proletarian
  • USA / General Motors workers on strike in the US

    The workers have paid a heavy price for their employer’s return to profitability.

    25 Oct 2019 ,
  • Disputes / Royal Mail workers vote overwhelmingly to strike

    Mail workers are ready to fight for their pay and conditions, but is their union prepared to back them?

    24 Oct 2019 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Cleaners demand fair pay at government department

    Outsourced staff are on strike for living wages at the department of business.

    16 Aug 2019 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Railway pensions under attack

    As profiteering franchise bidders haggle with the government over contract terms, workers’ hard-earned pensions are once more under threat.

    8 Jul 2019 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Support the Sellafield strikers!

    Workers at the Sellafield nuclear plant are in revolt against poverty wages and management bullying.

    28 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Privatisation directors’ fat salaries come from ripping off health service workers

    Sodexo and Mitie are the latest hospital outsourcing companies to face industrial action by staff over terrible pay and conditions.

    14 May 2019 ,
  • Disputes / Left-Labour-controlled Newham is not such a New Jerusalem

    Despite working for a Labour council and a Corbynite mayor, council workers in Newham face pay cuts and bullying.

    13 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Brum bin strike concludes with a payout

    A new deal was concluded in March to appease workers’ anger at secret payouts to GMB members during the 2017 strike.

    24 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Deliveroo strikes spread

    Increasing numbers of workers in the gig economy are fighting for basic rights at work.

    17 Mar 2019 ,
  • Disputes / South Western railworkers win battle to keep the guard on the train

    Safe and affordable public transport for all. Support our rail workers!

    19 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Deliveroo strike in Bristol: gig economy workers fight back

    Resistance to the poverty pay and union-busting tactics of so many zero-hour and gig economy employers is gathering momentum.

    23 Jan 2019 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Refuse, resist! Brum rubbish collectors ready to strike as council talks fail

    Brummie binmen are days away from an all-out strike, clashing once again with a Labour council that has rewarded scabs and blacklisted strikers.

    20 Jan 2019 , Sputnik
  • Disputes / Cammell Laird strike suspended for now

    Workers’ resistance has led to a stay of execution at the Merseyside shipyard.

    3 Jan 2019 , Lalkar
  • Lay-offs and closures / Cammell Laird shipyard strikes

    Overproduction is hitting industry after industry, proving once more that capitalism cannot solve the problems of the masses.

    27 Dec 2018 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / Support Asda Queslett workers’ fight for jobs

    Don’t let machines come before jobs, nor profit before people.

    19 Dec 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • Pay and conditions / Marriott hotel staff walk-outs across the USA

    Hard-pressed hospitality workers are fighting back over low pay and increasingly brutal conditions.

    9 Dec 2018 ,
  • Disputes / Birmingham: Two-faced council breaks promises to binmen and residents

    Birmingham’s militant binmen deserve our full support as their dispute looks set to break out again this Christmas.

    1 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / University of Manchester support staff to strike against pension attacks

    Cleaners, caterers, security and admin staff are fighting to defend their right to a dignified retirement.

    17 Nov 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Support the Glasgow women’s strike for equal pay

    But beware the Labour wolf in sheep's clothing!

    23 Oct 2018 ,
  • Disputes / FE lecturers ballot over derisory pay offer

    It is not the job of workers to square the accounts of their employers.

    17 Oct 2018 ,
  • Korea / Victory for Samsung workers

    Electronics giant finally forced to concede to safety concerns after over 100 worker deaths and more than 1,000 days of sit-in protest .

    6 Oct 2018 , Lalkar
  • Disputes / Support the fast food strikers!

    Fast food workers across Britain are organising to demand decent pay and conditions.

    3 Oct 2018 ,
  • Disputes / Support Birmingham’s homecare workers

    Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.

    19 Sep 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • Disputes / West Midlands firefighters threat of strike causes employer to retreat?

    Long live workers’ militant unity.

    11 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / French rail workers lead the fight to defend pay and conditions

    Macron's government hopes to use divide-and-rule tactics to break the resistance of the French working class.

    22 Jun 2018 ,
  • Disputes / TGI Fridays staff strike over tips ‘redistribution’

    Cut-throat competition in the oversupplied public dining sector is forcing real wages down even as the minimum wage officially goes up.

    21 Jun 2018 ,
  • Industry / Privatised rail industry totters

    The resistance of rail workers to safety-cutting measures is bringing the question of renationalisation back onto the political agenda.

    19 May 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Glasgow lowlife

    Yet another 'arms-length' union-busting operation as Glasgow city council's chosen privateers hire scabs rather than pay agreed wages.

    15 May 2018 ,
  • Disputes / University workers sold down the river

    With friends like the University and College Union leadership, who needs enemies?

    14 May 2018 , Proletarian
  • France / France fights back against Thatcherite ‘reforms’

    French workers have only to see what has been done to the British working class in recent decades to understand the ramifications of their present fight.

    3 May 2018 , Lalkar
  • Leaflets / Support the northern trains strike!

    Shareholders get richer while workers and the public suffer.

    18 Mar 2018 ,
  • Disputes / Why lecturers need to remain steadfast in defence of their pensions

    Plans to rob workers of their deferred wages and replace them with a slashed pot totally dependent on market fluctuations must be resisted.

    11 Mar 2018 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Council workers win skirmish with Manchester outsourcing cowboy

    The involvement of Labour councils in the outsourcing racket should make unions think twice about their generous donations to the party's coffers.

    11 Mar 2018 ,
  • Leaflets / Hands off lecturers’ pensions

    A decent pension for all workers is a right, not a privilege.

    1 Mar 2018 ,
  • Disputes / Support the McWorkers: class against class!

    Organisation is a vital weapon in the fight for our rights.

    12 Feb 2018 ,
  • Disputes / Crossrail electricians walk out

    Blacklisting Balfour Beatty manager dismisses union members in an attept to avert strike action.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Migrant workers in London: We are not the dirt we clean

    New unions are championing London's invisible workforce.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Rail strikes multiplying

    The government and rail operators are continuing to force unsafe driver only operation onto staff and passengers.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Editorial: Message to Birmingham’s bin workers

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Birmingham’s binmen conclude their strike … for now

    A ‘new’ deal has been offered that appears to make some concessions, but which demands more work for the same money.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Binmen on strike in Birmingham

    More council cuts = more rats! Birmingham’s refuse workers are mounting strong resistance to the latest austerity plans of the city’s Labour-led council.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / The fight-back of the low-paid

    ‘Precarious’ workers are doing it for themselves.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Birmingham council in financial crisis

    A strike by binmen and other workers is inevitable.

    1 Apr 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / How the scabs were ditched, and other dirty laundry of 1989-90

    The latest release of cabinet papers gives us a further insight into the secret doings of our ruling class.

    1 Dec 2016 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Shrewsbury 24: Amnesty International shows its true colours

    Even forty years later, the ‘human rights’ champions are still not prepared to tell the full story of their collusion with Labour in keeping Des Warren locked up.

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Editorial: Junior doctors vote to reject new contract

    Health secretary Jeremy Hunt vows to impose new conditions anyway as privatisation plans ramps up another gear.

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Industry matters: Cleaners’ victory

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Union-busting at Topshop

    Retail giant's outsourced cleaners protest against victimisation of activists.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / No to the new doctors’ contract; save our NHS!

    Hunt declares victory for the government; BMA’s Malawana declares ... nothing.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Health / Sudden death of the ‘weekend effect’

    One of the key planks in the government's propaganda offensive against junior doctors has been exposed as a total nonsense.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Greece: the struggle continues

    General strikes resume in the fight against austerity.

    11 May 2016 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Kohler workers’ strike in the US

    Workers demand an abolition to the two-tier pay system and equality among all the company's employees.

    11 May 2016 , Proletarian
  • Health / The junior doctors’ contract and the US corporate takeover of the NHS

    Dr Bob Gill explains the unreported and sinister drive behind the push for changing junior doctors’ contracts.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Letter: Boycott the General Medical Council

    The medical profession needs a new, independent governing body, capable of acting in the true interests of patients.

    1 Dec 2015 , Proletarian
  • Proletarian news / Industry matters: Amazon unveiled

    1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Industry matters: French ferry workers blaze a trail

    16 Sep 2015 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Book review: Striking a Light, the Bryant and May Matchwomen

    Louise Raw reveals the connection of these militant young East End strikers to new unionism, socialism and Irish republicanism.

    1 Apr 2011 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / The matchgirls’ strike of 1888

    A landmark victory in working-class history, with much relevance to the many workers today who are once more unorganised and unrepresented by any union.

    1 Jun 2008 , Proletarian

Disputes topics

  • No categories
  • Anti-union laws
  • Aslef
  • CPGB-ML
  • Crisis manifesto
  • CWU
  • Inflation
  • Labour party
  • Miners strike
  • NEU
  • Non-cooperation
  • NUM
  • RCN
  • Social democracy
  • Tenth congress
  • TUC
  • Unite the Union
  • Austerity
  • Birmingham
  • Birmingham bin strike
  • Drive to war
  • Overproduction crisis
  • Protests and strikes
  • Refuse disposal
  • 2008 crash
  • Banks
  • Children
  • GMB
  • Privatisation
  • Schools
  • Unison
  • Zero-hour contracts
  • Ferries
  • Fire and rehire
  • Poverty

Disputes video

  • Trade unions / Joti Brar: What happened to our trade unions?

    How can class-consciousness be raised amongst workers so that they are willing and able to use their power in both defensive and offensive struggles?

    6 Sep 2023, Proletarian TV
  • Trade unions / Alex Mckay: Trade unions can do more than fight for narrow wage increases

    How the ‘radical left’ acts to police the trade union movement and control workers in struggle.

    9 Aug 2023, Proletarian TV
  • Health / Dr Bob Gill on Julian Assange: Media censorship is key to NHS privatisation

    Just like the various imperialist wars, the NHS has become a funnel for vast sums of public money to be passed into private hands via profits and dividends.

    8 Oct 2022, Proletarian TV
  • Disputes / Rail strike spreads as employers and government remain intransigent

    Our rulers are well aware that a victory for rail workers would boost the confidence of workers in other sectors, all suffering from the rampant inflation crisis.

    12 Aug 2022, Proletarian TV
  • World TV / Caleb Maupin and Harpal Brar: The Indian farmers’ movement

  • Disputes / New deal offered to striking university staff is no deal at all

Disputes theory

  • Capitalist crisis / It’s not the workers but the capitalists who are causing inflation

    It is the right and the duty of workers to demand a bigger share of the wealth their own labour has created.

    25 Jan 2023, Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis

    Economic crises are an inescapable feature of life under the market system. Socialist planning is our only way out.

    4 Nov 2022, Proletarian

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