By Riccardo la Torre, Eastern Region FBU Secretary The 2019 Fire Brigades Union conference has voted for a strong emergency … More
Category: Workers’ struggles
Model motion for Labour Parties on school workers’ testing boycott
At the National Education Union conference in April, left activists succeeded in winning agreement to organise a ballot to boycott … More
Free Our Unions motions and fringe at Fire Brigades Union conference
UPDATE: FBU conference passed the Suffolk motion unanimously (the Staffordshire one was withdraw in its favour), making the FBU the … More
Motion on anti-union laws to PCS Annual Delegate Conference 2019
The following motion has been submitted to the annual conference of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) – 21-23 … More
Fighting the testing regime, transforming our union
The news of the first National Education Union conference voting to organise a boycott of SATs tests has inspired many … More
A radical, anticapitalist ‘Green New Deal’ – motion to Newcastle East
The following motion was passed by Ouseburn Branch Labour Party to go forward to Newcastle East CLP. It was proposed … More
National Education Union conference anti-union laws motion and fringe meeting (17 April)
Update: the motion was passed and the fringe meeting was very good. We hope to publish more information and speeches … More
The RMT, class politics and identity politics
Becky Crocker is a railway worker and activist in the RMT union, former chair of its Women’s Advisory Committee. Here … More
Public ownership and socialism – telecoms workers’ view
In 2013, the Greater London Combined branch of the Communication Workers’ Union published a pamphlet making the case for public … More