Trade Unions
Greek workers say ‘enough is enough – rise up!’
Chris Newcombe and Dave Stockton Fri, 26/02/2010 - 17:24Workers in Greece have taken to the streets in their tens of thousands to defend jobs and services. Dave Stockton and Chris Newcombe report on an inspirational struggle for all workers who don’t want to pay for the bosses’ crisis Read more...
All-out Strike for 3300 Canadian Miners Over Pay and Pensions
Joy Macready Tue, 17/11/2009 - 14:16Over 3300 Canadian miners are continuing an all-out strike action against the Brazilian mining company Vale Inco to defend their wages, terms and pensions. The strike, now entering its 18th week, consists of production and maintenance workers from Sudbury and Port Colborne, Ontario, and Voisey's Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador. Read more...
Mass protests in Ireland over government cuts
Bernie McAdam Sun, 08/11/2009 - 14:59Bernie McAdam reports on the latest protests in Ireland against government cut backs Read more...
The struggle at Kraft-Terrabusi in Argentina
Tim West Thu, 15/10/2009 - 11:21Time West, reports on the militant struggle taking place at Kraft foods in Argentina Read more...
Plantation workers fight back in Sri Lanka
PD Saranapala Wed, 23/09/2009 - 14:10
A strike by plantation workers was supported by comrades of the League for the Fifth International and the Socialist Plantation Workers union in a picket in the city of Ratnapura. Read more...
Workers occupy Turkish textile factory
Simon Hardy Sun, 06/09/2009 - 15:50Members of the League for he Fifth İnternational visitied workers at a factory that has been occupied in a dispute over wages Read more...
South Korea car workers strike ends after vicious repression
Simon Hardy Mon, 17/08/2009 - 10:16The 77 day stand-off between workers at the Ssangyong Motors plant and police ended on 5 August after police special units assaulted the roof, beating union members and arresting 96 of the strikers. Read more...
Britain: Vestas workers call on Labour to nationalise plant
Andy Yorke and Jeremy Dewar Tue, 28/07/2009 - 12:27A fight to save 600 jobs at a wind turbine plant threatened with closure exposes Labour’s green fakery. Andy Yorke and Jeremy Dewar back the workers’ demand for nationalisation 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 curent programme of the League for the Fifth International, published in 2003