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Everybody out!

Everybody out!

The workers are getting restless. Last year, for the second time in five years, more than a million days were lost to strikes. This year the figure is likely to be higher. Is this a return to the militant Seventies? Plus check out the rest of our May Day special

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The new strikers

The new strikers

The defeats of the Eighties mean nothing to today's young activists, who are not afraid to try strike action if it works, says Jeremy Dear, trade union leader

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Latin America: the attack on democracy

Latin America: the attack on democracy

John Pilger argues that an unreported war is being waged by the US to restore power to the privileged classes at the expense of the poor

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Strikes on film

As part of our focus on the labour movement and May Day, Daniel Trilling looks at the way movies have portrayed industrial action

The fire last time

Taken from The New Statesman 22 April 1988

Class size isn't everything

Class size isn't everything

Why teachers may be wrong about this class issue

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A new kind of protest

In a country where strikes are illegal, a new Chinese labour movement is finding its voice

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Only radical change will do

Only radical change will do

We need massive devolution of power to reverse the centralising excesses of Thatcher, Blair and Brown

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Bossing the bosses around

Bossing the bosses around

Democracy at work ought to be a human right.

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Lib-Lab rides again

Lib-Lab rides again

Labour talks of "fusing" social democracy with liberalism but today's progressives need to discover the two traditions always had strong common roots

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Prague, 1948: the February revolution

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An unglamorous bill presented shortly to parliament will define the direction of the Brown government - and its approach to social justice.

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Fidel Castro

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