Trade Unions
Strike wave in China - now build factory committees
Peter Main Fri, 16/12/2011 - 13:15Peter Main reports on important recent developments in the growing workers movement in China Read more...
Unions enter the battlefield: half a million surge onto London anti-cuts march
John Bowman Sun, 27/03/2011 - 22:14It was a long time coming, but yesterday London was crammed full of people for one of the largest demonstrations in years. Read more...
Indiana's double-whammy: when union busting isn't enough
Jamie Traska Sun, 13/03/2011 - 14:31As protests against union-busting bills continue in Wisconsin and Ohio, the fire spread further across the plains of the mid-west. Read more...
Thought Wisconsin's anti-union laws were bad? Look what they are doing in Ohio
Jeff Albertson Mon, 07/03/2011 - 10:15The Republicans in Ohio are pushing through even worse laws which will target any public sector worker's right to strike and limit the powers of union to negotiate over sick pay and pensions, writes Jeff Albertson Read more...
Wisconsin shows workers can resist: now a general strike can deliver victory
Andy Yorke Tue, 01/03/2011 - 16:02The struggle going on in Wisconsin shows that American workers have an appetite to fight, but how can they win? Read more...
France: a movement with the spirit of revolution
L5I statement Wed, 20/10/2010 - 16:24On 19 October workers and youth mobilised for the sixth day of strike action against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s pension reform. Read more...
Resistance to privatisation in Pakistan
Revolutionary Socialist Movement Thu, 14/10/2010 - 20:01
Electricity workers across the country organised a protest on 13 October against the privatisation of public companies. There is growing anger about the constant price hikes of essential commodities coupled with growing unemployment and rising abject poverty. Read more...
As mass strikes sweep France, Spain, Greece Indefinite general strikes can beat European cuts
Dave Stockton Fri, 08/10/2010 - 11:18As mass strikes sweep France, Spain, Greece
Indefinite general strikes can beat European cuts Read more...
Printed in the first issue of Permanent Revolution journal. What is reformism and how can revolutionaries win workers and youth away from it? An analysis and an outline of the tactics and strategy that communists apply within the workers movement.
First published by Workers Power in 1978, our first serious work on the role of trade unions under capitalism, the bureacracy and the historical lessons of the Militant Minority Movement in the early 1920s
The current programme of the League for the Fifth International, published in 2011 