Capitalist ideas and working class power

  How did socialist Germany’s Ministry of State Security replace the Gestapo as the bogeyman to frighten liberals out of Continue reading →

Amazing Brexit: Identity and Class Politics

by Luciana Boihne writing in the US magazine Counterpuch http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/13/amazing-brexit-identity-and-class-politics/ From its inception in 1951 as the European Coal and Continue reading →

What have unions every done for us?

Good stuff this week from the Trades Union Congress Hear Eddie Izzard and Frances O’Grady

A scourge of the Establishment

  Owen Jones’s book on how the elite maintains its franchise on power is a valuable exposé of greed, corruption Continue reading →

An antidote to reformist and euro-centric ideas about the trade union movement

An Anti-Imperialist International Trade Union Conference by Kay and Walter Tillow An important “Anti-Imperialist International Trade Union Conference” was held Continue reading →

Genes, IQ and heritability

      by Nick Wright Ever since the intellectual case for school selection based on intelligence quotient testing was found Continue reading →

Workers are the real victims of intimidation

This at John Millington’s blog Yesterday, the Daily Mail ran a story accusing the Unite Union of “intimidatory tactics” against Continue reading →

The industrial core of the working class

by Danny Goldstick On the basis that the industrial working class is “the decisive core of the working class”, we Continue reading →