trade unions
Britain: Is the working class back?
Dan Evans — Workers have structural power, as the strike wave of 2022 demonstrated. But the working class remains weak and fragmented, and its politics are increasingly chaotic. What is to be done?
Three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, why have Putin’s anti-war opponents failed so far?
Three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kirill Buketow takes stock and explains why Putin’s internal opponents have failed so far.
‘Even silence is viewed as dissent’: An interview with Russian trade unionist Pavel Kudyukin
Pavel Kudyukin discusses the situation of workers and trade unions in Russia, the differing stances among Russian leftists towards Russia’s war on Ukraine, and the campaigns to free political prisoners held in Russian jails.
Yuriy Samoilov provides a left-wing and trade union perspective on the Russia-Ukraine war.
Vitaliy Dudyn discusses trends in labour relations before and after the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and in the context of European integration.
Lithuanian trade union organiser: ‘For us, the fear of being occupied is more real’
Jurgis Valiukevičius talks about the new workers’ movements in Lithuania, emigration and immigration, and how sympathy for Ukrainian resistance has opened up space for discussions about anti-imperialism.
Workers of the Earth, unite!: An interview with Stefania Barca
Stefania Barca affirms the need for a working-class ecopolitics while challenging the narrow understandings of class struggle and material interest that suffuse much of the current discourse.
Green class struggle: Workers and the Just Transition
Gareth Dale — A resilient history of workers’ initiatives overcoming redundancies, alongside recent activist, trade-union and workforce collaborations, provide concrete examples for empowered just transitions.
A generational challenge: Taming Amazon, renewing labour
Sam Gindin — The Amazon organizing model poses three tests for labour and the left.
This May Day and Nakba Day, we, the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions - Gaza, urgently appeal to our brothers and sisters in the international trade union movement to take a stand in solidarity with Palestine.
United States: The students’ movement for Palestine needs everyone
All across the country, students are rising up against Israel’s genocidal war. Caitlyn Clark provides a report from the week in New York City, plus how to bring in organized labor.
Neal Meyer discusses the impact of the Gaza war on US politics, the recent rise in labour activism, and the current state of the Democratic Socialists of America.