Trade unions

Last week, the government of French President Emanuel Macron detailed its plans to rewrite the country’s labor code, aiming to remove all legal barriers...

The ideas that justified the American economic and political system in the minds of most of our citizens throughout that long period came under stress during earlier storms—from the 1950s to the 1970s in particular—and a few beams and joists cracked but did not give way. Today the manifold crises of capitalism mean that the entire existing intellectual structure of American capitalism is breaking up.

The general secretaries of 10 of Britain’s largest trade unions have signed a joint statement giving their continued support to Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. Signatories to the letter include Unite’s Len McCluskey, Unison’s Dave Prentis and the GMB’s Tim Roache – the three biggest unions, and all Labour-affiliated.

By Socialist Appeal - Britain The Rubicon has been crossed. The die is cast. With their vote of no confidence against Jeremy Corbyn (by 172...

We publish this article by the British Marxists of Socialist Appeal, because we believe it’s a very important one, in order for someone to...

Custom dictates that unions and employers are forever at odds. But in Sweden they're united – at least when it comes to free trade...