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26 August 2009
Ireland - workers campaign against Lisbon Treaty
AROUND 100 people attended a public meeting on the Lisbon Treaty (the renamed European constitution) at Dublin's Liberty Hall on 18 August, writes Stephen Rigney, Dublin.
26 August 2009
South Yorks firefighters plan industrial action
South Yorkshire firefighters could soon be taking strike action for the first time since the national dispute in 2002, writes Alistair Tice.
5 June 2009
The producers of BBC programme Question Time on 28 May, on the European elections, had decided not to include RMT union leader Bob Crow as a panel speaker from 'No2EU - Yes to Democracy', on the grounds that it was not an important enough party...
Protest at MPs' sleaze - Vote No2EU - Yes to Democracy, photo The Socialist
27 May 2009
Protest at MPs' sleaze: Vote No2EU - Yes to Democracy
Bob Crow and Dave Nellist say why you should vote No2EU: The coalition that we've assembled in the last few weeks for this election is campaigning against privatisation, against low pay, against MPs' 'expenses' and the gravy train, writes Dave Nellist Socialist Party councillor, Coventry.
Bob Crow, RMT general secretary, photo Paul Mattsson
29 April 2009
European elections: Build support for a workers' alternative to Labour
As convenor of No2EU - Yes to Democracy, I recently visited the Visteon factory in Basildon currently being blockaded by the sacked workforce, writes Bob Crow, General Secretary, RMT
NO2EU on the 'Put People First' demo, photo Paul Mattsson
31 March 2009
The No2EU-Yes to Democracy electoral coalition, headed by Bob Crow, the general secretary of the RMT transport workers' union, will be contesting seats in June's European elections...
25 March 2009
"No2EU-Yes to Democracy aims to stand candidates as widely as possible across Britain, but we urgently need financial resources to allow us to do so...
11 March 2009
At a press conference in Newcastle on 6 March, rail union RMT general secretary Bob Crow announced that around 250 RMT members employed by Nexus on the Tyne and Wear Metro are to be balloted for strike action, writes Elaine Brunskill.
11 February 2009
Tyneside Metro: Workers' action to stop privatisation
TO A packed meeting of over 150 people last week, the RMT's general secretary Bob Crow announced that Tyneside Metro workers are to be balloted for strike action over the threat to jobs, pensions and conditions posed by privatisation plans, writes Elaine Brunskill.
19 November 2008
Programme of action to fight unemployment is needed
Editorial When Tony McNulty, New Labour's minister for (un)employment was asked by the TUC if the government would consider increasing unemployment benefit because of the number of workers now losing their jobs, he said no - because it would stop people looking for jobs if it is set too high...
17 September 2008
2008 Trades Union Congress: Pressure from below begins to show
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber declared at the TUC conference last week that "nationalisation is unpopular" at a time when even the Bush government has been forced to carry out one of the biggest nationalisations in history, writes Bill Mullins.
10 September 2008
Workers' anger surfaces at TUC
ON THE first day of the Trades Union Congress conference, the TUC leaders were extremely anxious to get controversial motions out of the way before Labour ministers arrived with the press, writes Bill Mullins.
2 July 2008
Fight Labour's welfare privatisation
JAMES PURNELL, secretary of state for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), has announced that he intends to let private sector companies cherry pick whatever DWP services they wanted to provide, writes Dave Reid.
2 July 2008
Workers united against pay freeze
AROUND 30 people attended a meeting organised by Cambridge TUC entitled 'Together we can beat Brown's pay freeze'. The speakers were Christine Blower, acting general secretary of the NUT and PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka...
2 July 2008
National Shop Stewards Network: Rebuilding trade union strength
The second conference of the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) on Saturday 28 June was opened by chair Dave Chapple, explaining how his CWU postal workers' union branch was balloting its 3,000 members for strike action, writes Alison Hill.
2 July 2008
Campaign for a New Workers' Party
On Sunday 29 June, 300 people filled the main hall in South Camden Community School in London to round off a very important weekend for the labour movement in Britain and to address the central question facing workers in Britain today: How can we fight for a working class political voice...
1 July 2008
We are posting one or two of the speeches at the CNWP debate 'How can we fight for a working class political voice?' A video of al the opening speeches will be posted to the CNWP website www.cnwp.org.uk, writes Bob Crow, RMT general secretary.
25 June 2008
PCS union sends letter of solidarity to Unison
As Unison started its annual conference, ahead of the council workers' vote to strike over pay, Mark Serwotka (general secretary of the PCS union) sent the following letter of support and solidarity to Unison's general secretary Dave Prentis, calling for united industrial action.
25 June 2008
Campaign for a new workers' party: Conference - Sunday 29 June, 11am - 5pm
South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1
Speakers include:
Bob Crow, RMT general secretary
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