Trade Unions and the labour movement
The New Statesman's coverage of industrial relations at home and abroad
In Trade Unions
Everybody out!
- By Peter Wilby
- 24 April 2008
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
The new strikers
- By Jeremy Dear
- 24 April 2008
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
Latin America: the attack on democracy
- By John Pilger
- 24 April 2008
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
Strikes on film
- By Daniel Trilling
- 24 April 2008
As part of our focus on the labour movement and May Day, Daniel Trilling looks at the way movies have portrayed industrial action
Class size isn't everything
- By Peter Wilby
- 27 March 2008
Why teachers may be wrong about this class issue
A new kind of protest
- By Paul Mason
- 27 March 2008
In a country where strikes are illegal, a new Chinese labour movement is finding its voice
Only radical change will do
- By Nick Clegg
- 13 March 2008
We need massive devolution of power to reverse the centralising excesses of Thatcher, Blair and Brown
Bossing the bosses around
- By Peter Wilby
- 21 February 2008
Democracy at work ought to be a human right.
Lib-Lab rides again
- By David Marquand
- 21 February 2008
Labour talks of "fusing" social democracy with liberalism but today's progressives need to discover the two traditions always had strong common roots
Also in Trade Unions
Prague, 1948: the February revolution
- By Richard Crossman
- 14 February 2008
Taken from The New Statesman20 March 1948
What about the workers?
- By Martin Bright
- 14 February 2008
An unglamorous bill presented shortly to parliament will define the direction of the Brown government - and its approach to social justice.
