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Luddites were hardly the anti-tech dullards historians have painted them to be.

Organized labour, association and activities of workers in a trade or industry for the purpose of obtaining or assuring improvements in working conditions through their collective action. British trade unionism has a long and continuous history. Medieval guilds, which regulated craft production,

Prisons, the police and the state aren’t age-old institutions. But winning a future with prison abolition will take revolutionary change

The Socialist Attitude Toward Trade Unions. The aim of trade unions is not socialism and, therefore, the principles and policy of The World Socialist Movement…

Organized labour, also called trade unionism, association and activities of workers in a trade or industry for the purpose of obtaining or assuring improvements in working conditions through their collective action. British trade unionism has a long and continuous history. Medieval guilds, which regulated craft production, clearly differed in function from trade unions, in that guilds were combinations of both masters and workers while modern unions emerged to serve workers’ inter...

British trade union membership is currently around 6.5 million, but was more than double that in the late 1970s, when unions worked together to bring the UK to a standstill.

I TRUST that SNP strategists are watching the Conservative Party leadership campaign with a glint in their eye.

Defying unjust laws - a rich history of struggle

An excerpt from Peter Fryer's Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain on William Cuffay, black tailor and leader of the London Chartists. Reprinted with footnotes by Past Tense in 2005.

Organized labour, association and activities of workers in a trade or industry for the purpose of obtaining or assuring improvements in working conditions through their collective action. British trade unionism has a long and continuous history. Medieval guilds, which regulated craft production,