Joti Brar: What happened to our trade unions?

Crisis manifesto highlights

Capitalist crisis / Is life under capitalism getting you down? Luckily, there’s a cure!

Are you sad and depressed? Lonely? Anxious? Isolated? Worried about the future? You may be suffering from capitalism.

30 Aug 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: No cooperation with the imperialist drive to war

Only the collective action of workers has the power to stop the war drive in its tracks. This demand must be taken up in every trade union at every level.

7 Jun 2023 ,

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
France / Strikes in France demonstrate the benefits and limits of trade union action

Why are French workers being forced to endlessly fight the same battles?

23 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
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
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
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

Crisis manifesto topics

Bourgeois democracy
CPGB-ML
Crisis manifesto
Labour party
Marxism
Protests and strikes
Social democracy
Actually-existing socialism
Austerity
Inequality
Inflation
Media lies
Overproduction crisis
Planned economy
Poverty
CPB
TUC
Drive to war
Leninism
2020 crash
Anti-imperialist Platform
Brexit
British imperialism
Enough is Enough
European Union
Gilet jaunes
PRCF
Rishi Sunak
Sanctions
Ukraine war
Workers rights
Arms industry
DPRK
Fascism
Nato
Non-cooperation
Taiwan
US imperialism
War crimes
WW3
Banks
Housing crisis
Hunger
NHS
Anti-union laws
Justice system
Pensions
Anti-imperialism
Debt
Japanese imperialism
Korean reunification
Korean revolution
PDP
South Korea
WW2
RCN
Emmanuel Macron
Students
Universities
BMA
NEU
RMT
Children
Schools
Civil rights
Lawfare
Supply lines
Vladimir Putin
Privatisation
Eastern Europe
Imperialist war

Crisis manifesto 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
Korea / British delegate in Seoul: Global capitalist system teetering over the abyss

The drive towards World War 3 is being impelled by the mother of all economic crises: a revolutionary crisis will be the result.

23 May 2023,
World / Paris Declaration: The rising tide of global war and our tasks

Parties come together to agree a common platform in opposition to the reckless war drive of the imperialist block, spearheaded by Nato in Ukraine.

20 Oct 2022, WAP

Crisis manifesto theory

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,
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

1
Disappearing context: West created and backed Ukrainian fascists for 85 years

The Azov battalion did not appear out of nowhere; fascism has been the imperialist tool of choice in Ukraine since the 1930s.
2
Is Washington preparing to hang its stooge Zelensky out to dry?
3
Aymeric Monville: Report back from Xinjiang
4
Ukraine: From coup d’état to war
5
How China is developing mass involvement in local governance
6
Are striking doctors really ‘greedy’ and ‘uncaring’?
7
Modern monetary theory: is there a magic money tree?
8
Syria-China partnership signals defeat for USA’s regional domination war
9
United with the peoples of the world, the DPRK is invincible
10
Macquarie stokes the roaring inflationary fires

Crisis manifesto highlights

Capitalist crisis / Is life under capitalism getting you down? Luckily, there’s a cure!

Are you sad and depressed? Lonely? Anxious? Isolated? Worried about the future? You may be suffering from capitalism.

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.

Trade unions / Model motion: No cooperation with the imperialist drive to war

Only the collective action of workers has the power to stop the war drive in its tracks. This demand must be taken up in every trade union at every level.

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.

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.

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.

Trade unions / Defy the anti-trade union laws!

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

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?

France / Strikes in France demonstrate the benefits and limits of trade union action

Why are French workers being forced to endlessly fight the same battles?

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.

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.

Civil liberties / Minimum Service Bill is the latest salvo in the class war against workers

No cooperation with union-busting anti-strike laws!

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.

Crisis manifesto topics

Crisis manifesto 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?

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.

Korea / British delegate in Seoul: Global capitalist system teetering over the abyss

The drive towards World War 3 is being impelled by the mother of all economic crises: a revolutionary crisis will be the result.

World / Paris Declaration: The rising tide of global war and our tasks

Parties come together to agree a common platform in opposition to the reckless war drive of the imperialist block, spearheaded by Nato in Ukraine.

Crisis manifesto theory

Capitalist crisis / Book: Manifesto for the crisis

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

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.

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