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Pay and conditions 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
  • Pay and conditions / Starmer ditches the promised ‘right to switch off’

    Confirming what might have been anticipated about how sincere the Labour party was in its pre-election pledges to bring in a ‘New Deal for Workers’.

    11 Mar 2025 , Proletarian
  • British politics / The life and crimes of John ‘Two Jags’ Prescott

    One more example of a working-class man who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.

    4 Feb 2025 , Proletarian
  • Korea / Massive strikes called as crisis deepens in occupied Korea

    Underpinning the scandals around corruption and authoritarianism is the US imperialists drive to restart the Korean war.

    14 Dec 2024 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Starmer government pushing fresh sell-off to hedge fund vultures

    The Labour party grovels to Wall Street and the City of London.

    15 Nov 2024 , Class Consciousness Project
  • 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
  • Capitalist crisis / Labour means austerity, racism, repression and war

    So where are the trade unions?

    1 Oct 2024 ,
  • Social wage / Media blames workers for the corruption and fraud endemic to capitalist society

    It is not ‘benefit cheats’ who are emptying Britain’s treasury but the unending subsidies to monopoly capital.

    25 Jul 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
  • 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
  • Korea / South Korea: the ‘Land of Morning Calm’ is working itself to death

    Capitalist dystopia in action: behind the ‘economic miracle’, the daily grind keeps getting harder.

    27 Jul 2023 , Le Monde diplomatique
  • 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
  • Capitalist crisis / EVENT: Trade unionism and working-class leadership

    Don’t sit on your hands; don’t fiddle while Rome burns! Your class needs you; the future of humanity needs you! Step forward and help make history!

    17 Jul 2023 ,
  • 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
  • British politics / Communist message to Silk Mill rally: Ditch the Labour party!

    Don’t settle for social democracy when only scientific socialism has the answer!

    16 Jun 2023 ,
  • France / Joti Brar: We are heartened and inspired by French workers’ fighting spirit

    Unfortunately, even the most militant of Britain’s trade union leaders seem keen to end the strikes here as quickly as possible.

    8 Jun 2023 , Communist Initiative
  • 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 ,
  • Trade unions / Model motion: Break the link with Labour

    The essential precondition for a successful struggle for decent pay is that our unions must break their connection with the imperialist Labour party.

    3 Jun 2023 ,
  • Trade unions / Defy the anti-trade union laws!

    It is time we turned the struggle for decent wages into a struggle for socialism.

    22 May 2023 , Proletarian
  • France / The French working class fights on

    Already there have been isolated instances of gendarmes refusing to obey orders. If the cotagion spreads, will the rest of Macron’s state machinery be more reliable?

    12 May 2023 , Lalkar
  • Working-class history / Long live May Day!

    Workers have made immense sacrifices in the great struggle of labour against capital; have shed rivers of blood in their quest for a better life and real freedom.

    1 May 2023 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • Pay and conditions / Pardeep Singh and Boohoo: sweatshop and semi-slavery conditions on the rise

    An immigrant worker whose punishment beating was filmed by his employer serves as a stark reminder of the true face of capitalist exploitation.

    6 Feb 2023 ,
  • 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 / Minimum Service Bill is the latest salvo in the class war against workers

    No cooperation with union-busting anti-strike laws! 

    27 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
  • Health / The ruin of the NHS for the benefit of private interests

    In their desperation for sources of profit, our exploiters as individuals even end up damaging their own collective interests.

    29 Dec 2022 , Lalkar
  • 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 ,
  • Health / Coffey’s ‘plan for patients’ boils down to more targets and some magical thinking

    Reams of empty phrasemongering are aimed at hiding the fact that Truss and co have no plan to do anything to fix the crisis in our health service.

    1 Oct 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
  • Capitalist crisis / Cost of living crisis: the fightback is under way

    Growing militance among unionised workers and vigorous new campaigns to combat the effects of poverty and inflation signify a change in the workers’ mood.

    6 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 ,
  • Health / Dr Bob Gill: The demise of British primary healthcare

    First they came for the cleaners, then they came for the caterers, then for the porters, the student nurses and the junior doctors. Now they’re coming for the GPs.

    11 Jul 2022 , Consortium News
  • 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 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Sainsbury’s CEO in the money as workers feel the pinch

    As conditions for the mass of workers get rapidly worse, the obscene inequalities of the system come into ever-sharper relief.

    15 Jun 2022 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Boris in trouble: It’s the economy stupid … and that bloody stupid war

    The commentariat might not be admitting it, but it is the Ukraine war that looks like finally finishing off Boris Johnson’s premiership.

    11 Jun 2022 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • USA / US state revokes child protection laws instead of creating decent jobs for adults

    Wisconsin is planning to patch up the cracks in its faltering economy by getting children to work longer and later.

    10 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Keep on trucking: supply lines chaos as Covid and Brexit effects combine

    The obvious answer to the present shortage of skilled labour is to invest in training and to improve pay and conditions in the areas concerned.

    3 Sep 2021 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Don’t make care workers pay for the crisis in social care!

    We must renationalise and reunite social care with healthcare, and pay all workers in the sector a decent wage.

    17 Apr 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
  • Social wage / Don’t tell Newham we are all in it together

    The financial and physical inability to isolate or to work safely has led to far worse covid outcomes for the poorest in our society.

    10 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 ,
  • Health / DVLA: Keeping non-essential staff in offices is endangering lives

    The biggest outbreak of covid yet recorded in Britain is taking place in a government office in Wales – and staff are still being forced to come in to work.

    27 Jan 2021 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Debenhams, Arcadia: Making workers pay for the crisis

    Tens of thousands are set to lose jobs and suffer pension cuts, once again making workers pay the price for capitalism’s failings.

    4 Dec 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Railway pensions under threat

    It is the bosses’ responsibility to see to it that deferred wages are paid in full; why are workers expected to take the hit?

    23 Sep 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / FT spills the beans on the great pensions rip-off

    Not content with stealing workers’ unpaid labour today, the capitalists are conspiring to steal their right to a dignified retirement tomorrow.

    20 Sep 2020 , Proletarian
  • Britain / Civil servants face coercion over return to the workplace

    In a desperate bid to restore city centre footfall, the government is pushing workers back into offices.

    16 Sep 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Papa John’s fails to deliver

    Sheffield pizza workers force bosses to pay withheld wages through collective action.

    3 Aug 2020 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / Nissan slashes workforce and pensions, poised to flee Sunderland altogether

    Blame Brexit; blame covid ... blame anything but the capitalist system.

    31 Jul 2020 ,
  • 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
  • Industry / Leicester sweatshops keep their heads down despite covid panic

    Fashion industry gangmasters are riding out the storm, safe in the knowledge that it will be business as usual before long.

    17 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 ,
  • Health / We are not battery hens: covid outbreaks in the meat packing industry

    Why are so many workers in the meat processing industry succumbing to the coronavirus?

    3 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Conditions at Yodel: report by a worker

    Workers in the logistics industry are being sweated at ever-more intense and unendurable rates.

    26 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / British Gas and SPS are latest to announce big job losses

    As the economic crisis bites, employers are looking to cut not only jobs but also pay, pensions and everything else.

    25 Jun 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 ,
  • Pay and conditions / BA threatens to sack its entire workforce

    After rinsing the furlough scheme, the airline is now insisting that its staff should accept huge pay cuts or be sacked.

    16 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Industry / ‘Back to work’ stampede – and may the devil take the hindmost

    Reopening schools and workplaces without proper safety measures highlights the government’s true priorities.

    20 May 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Workers in the US and Britain fight for workplace safety

    Wildcat strikes and a high-profile resignation are highlighting the anti-worker essence of capitalist accumulation.

    15 May 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Covid-19 furlough scheme: a bonanza for big business

    While thousands of workers find themselves without a job, bosses are cashing in on the ‘free money’ of the furlough scheme.

    30 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Barclays spies on its own staff

    The banking giant is using ‘Big Brother tactics’ to monitor staff and keep their noses to the grindstone.

    6 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Amazon is bad for your health

    What a surprise: working too hard and too long leads to unsafe working environments.

    4 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
  • 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 / Offshore oil workers under threat

    Will trade unions now get off the back foot and start to mobilise their members into an active campaign of resistance?

    26 Feb 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 ,
  • Social wage / Work doesn’t pay and British families know it

    Fourteen million people, including four million children, live in poverty in Britain, and more than half of those come from working families.

    19 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • France / French class war continuing as neither side looks ready to back down

    Macron continues to push EU-backed pensions attack while unions have called for a general strike and total oil refinery blockade.

    10 Jan 2020 ,
  • France / French strikes expand and deepen as more workers join the fray

    A class war is underway in France and the workers show no sign of backing down. Victoire aux grévistes!

    19 Dec 2019 , Proletarian
  • France / Support the French strikers!

    France’s militant unions are joining forces with yellow vest activists in a serious challenge to Macron’s EU-backed assault on living standards.

    10 Dec 2019 ,
  • 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
  • Working-class history / Avtar Jouhl: lifelong class fighter against racism

    Comrade Avtar reflects on a life of struggle in the IWA and the trade unions from the 1950s to the 1990s.

    10 Nov 2019 , International Socialist
  • 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 ,
  • Education / Teachers given pay rise, but schools forced to pay

    Government will fund a 0.75 percent increase, with schools told to find most of the required cash from their own budgets.

    8 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / GMB protest at Rugeley Amazon

    British trade union seems more worried about defending the profits of shareholders than the interests of workers.

    21 Jul 2019 , Birmingham Worker
  • 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
  • Society / Hunger on the rise in Britain, despite economic ‘recovery’

    In-work poverty testifies as to who really paid to bail out the banks in 2008. And while hunger is on the rise, one-third of food produced every year is wasted.

    20 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 ,
  • Divide and rule / Asda continues to flout equal pay rulings

    Automation and unequal pay are just two of the tools being used by retail giants to divide workers, reduce costs and win the cut-throat war of competition.

    14 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • 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
  • Health / Newcross Healthcare: rinsing the public coffers

    The true face of privatisation in our public services, where greed and abuse are rewarded and people come last.

    15 Jan 2019 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Support the workers against Condor and the ships of shame!

    Defend Brexit and fight for better working conditions for all.

    12 Jan 2019 ,
  • Civil liberties / Branding the wage slaves

    British companies are starting to experiment with microchipping their staff as a way of keeping tabs on their movements.

    24 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
  • Social wage / Bristol bus protest highlights failing public transport in Britain

    Workers must demand renationalisation as the first step towards affordability, planning, and the sanity of a socialist economy.

    25 Nov 2018 , Proletarian
  • France / Macron compares French workers to Asterix and the Gauls

    Yet as the class struggle intensifies it is Asterix and Obelix who symbolically represent the determination to resist exploitation and oppression.

    22 Nov 2018 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • Pay and conditions / Glasgow: Teachers take to the streets

    Pay and conditions in the profession continue to decline, leading to a retention and recruitment crisis in our schools.

    16 Nov 2018 , Proletarian
  • Society / Meaningful employment is a right for all

    Useful work well done for collective benefit brings personal fulfilment. A society that can't provide such work to its members is not fit for purpose.

    28 Oct 2018 ,
  • 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 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Courier strikes

    As the food delivery industry consolidates itself, the winning companies and putting the screws on drivers to up their profits.

    16 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Dental industry: another ‘self-employed’ scam

    Privatisation has led to massive concentration in dentistry, with employees rebranded as ‘associates’.

    10 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Theft of steelworkers’ pensions

    Successful campaigners lose up to half their entitlement, shafted after all by caveats in the small print.

    9 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Bosses’ pay soars

    While Labour business rep worries over ‘undermining public trust in business’!

    9 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • 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 ,
  • Pay and conditions / University of London workers strike a blow against the outsourcing racket

    A simple demand for a basic rights is causing consternation in the camp of the class enemy.

    20 Sep 2018 , Lalkar
  • 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
  • Pay and conditions / Gig economy faces legal setbacks

    Curbs being put on fictitious ‘self-employment’.

    9 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Court victory for workers’ rights

    Supreme court makes landmark ruling against the practice of fake 'self-employment' by which companies strip workers of their rights.

    27 Jul 2018 , Lalkar
  • 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 ,
  • 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
  • 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 ,
  • Trade unions / Postal union caves in on pensions

    The CWU's failure to stand up to the marketisation of pensions will affect more than just postal workers.

    15 Feb 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
  • Pay and conditions / Pay gap widens: the rich get richer

    What the minimum wage did for us ...

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • Cote d’Ivoire / Draconian response to customs officers’ strike in Cote d’Ivoire

    Behind Ouattara’s comprador regime lies the not-so-hidden hand of French and US imperialism.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Aslef’s ‘shabby deal’

    Rail bosses use divide and rule tactics to weaken resistance to safety-cutting measures.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Industry matters: Fighting the trade war harder

    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
  • 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
  • France / Strike wave hits France

    Workers are vigorously opposing their government’s attempt to rip up the French labour code.

    1 Aug 2016 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Blacklisters cough up but justice still denied

    Construction monopolies pay out token amounts to their victims in the hope of avoiding further exposure in the courts and media.

    1 Jun 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
  • Lay-offs and closures / BHS workers facing loss of jobs and pensions

    This is not the ‘unacceptable face’ of capitalism; capitalism itself is unacceptable.

    1 Jun 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
  • Working-class history / The Victorian origins of workfare

    Where did the government get the idea of subsidising free labour for big companies like Tesco?

    1 Apr 2012 , 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

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Pay and conditions video

  • Capitalist crisis / Red Youth: Marxism can channel the anger of our youth into revolution

    Decaying capitalism offers young people only alienation and misery. The path to a positive future lies in harnessing our energies against the present system.

    28 Nov 2023,
  • 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
  • Theory TV / Garland Nixon and Joti Brar: capitalism, imperialism, the ‘left’ and the Platform

    What motivates the drive to war? Why are workers in the west becoming so impoverished? How can we understand the times we live in?

    1 Jun 2023, Proletarian TV
  • Economy / Bank of England ‘economist’ to workers: accept poverty, stop asking for a pay rise

    The BoE has made its position in the class war abundantly clear.

    29 Apr 2023, Proletarian TV
  • Divide and rule / Dan O’Brien, Ranjeet Brar: immigration and the new ‘stop the boats’ bill

  • Capitalist crisis / Kwarteng’s budget: less red tape – fewer workers rights

  • Disputes / Rail strike spreads as employers and government remain intransigent

  • Capitalist crisis / Covid has laid bare the capitalist dystopia in which we are already living

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

Pay and conditions theory

  • Trade unions / Communist work in the trade unions

    How should Marxists approach union work? Which demands are most useful in developing workers’ class-consciousness?

    19 Jul 2024, Proletarian
  • Argentina / Role of the IMF in impoverishing countries – the case of Argentina

    How the imperialists use the debt trap to loot the wealth of and enforce their hegemony over oppressed nations.

    28 May 2024, Lalkar
  • Georgia / Why reimagine Soviet Georgia?

    Despite 30 years of efforts to bury and vilify its memory, the resilience of communism remains undefeated.

    11 Feb 2024, Monthly Review
  • Capitalist crisis / Book: Manifesto for the crisis

    What do workers need to understand if they are to solve their problems for good?

    12 Jun 2023,
  • Divide and rule / Book: Capitalism and Immigration

    Our strength is in our unity, and our rulers know it well.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Theory / Is inflation good for you?

    What is really at the root of the inexorable rise in prices?

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