Workers' Summit: 'We'll strike and challenge union leaders'
Trade unionists debated the lessons of the strike wave at the Workers' Summit in central London on Saturday
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Trade unionists debated the lessons of the strike wave at the Workers' Summit in central London on Saturday
To be effective the Workers' Summit has to discuss the balance sheet of the 2022-23 strike wave—and organise to do it better next time.
Recent retreats and sell-outs by trade union leaders make the Workers’ Summit in London on 23 September even more important than it was
The determined, year-long battle at Royal Mail has provided an object lesson in the pro-capitalist politics of pseudo-left organisations which defended the trade union bureaucracy against a rank-and-file insurgency.
On 29 July between 150 and 200 trade unionists met in Manchester at the Troublemakers at Work conference. Called by a number of labour movement organising projects (Workers Can Win, Strike Map, Organise Now!), the conference gained an impressive breadth of backers and was marked by a refreshing lack of political sectarianism. Different left groups were free to distribute their literature.