Communist work in the trade unions

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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.

30 Apr 2025 ,
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

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
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 / 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
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
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
Social wage / WH Smith gobbles up another 74 post offices

Another step towards the complete dismemberment and privatisation of the mail service.

22 Dec 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 ,
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 ,

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In defence of socialist realism and a culture of the working class.
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Book: Identity Politics and the Transgender Trend
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Starmer’s sleaze
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The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’
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Book: Identity Politics or Class Politics?
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Starmer’s failing militarism
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CPGB-ML launches Hands off Korea campaign
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US defeat in its proxy war against Russia a setback for imperialism everywhere
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The fight against bureaucracy in the Soviet Union under Stalin

CWU 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.

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.

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?

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.

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.’

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.

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?

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?

Social wage / WH Smith gobbles up another 74 post offices

Another step towards the complete dismemberment and privatisation of the mail service.

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.

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.

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The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’

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Starmer’s failing militarism

CPGB-ML launches Hands off Korea campaign

US defeat in its proxy war against Russia a setback for imperialism everywhere

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