Workers Movement
Climate Movement Applauds Coal Miners’ Demand for Just Transition, Green Jobs
"As we confront a next wave of energy transition, we must take steps now to ensure that things do not get worse for coal...
Lenin on the Paris Commune
The Militant, 19 March 1932
Lenin on the Paris Commune
(April 1911)
From The Militant, Vol. V No. 12 (Whole No. 108), 19 March 1932, p. 1.
Originally published...
UK gig drivers recognised as workers – what next?
by Jill Toh
25th February 2021
In a landmark judgment last Friday, the UK Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favour of ‘gig’ workers in a six-year...
Opposing UK Police Bill must be based on class, not gender...
By Thomas Scripps
20 March 2021
Boris Johnson’s Conservative UK government is rushing the Police, Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill through Parliament. The legislation prepares a...
Uber to pay UK drivers minimum wage, holiday pay and pension
Move follows supreme court ruling that drivers are workers but critics say they are still short-changed
By Sarah Butler
16 Mar 2021
Uber is to...
Gilets Jaunes : la Grande Marche des Oubliés
3 mars 202
1871-2021 : de la Commune aux Gilets Jaunes, la Grande Marche des Oubliés
Le 18 mars prochain, nous fêterons les 150 ans de...
Massive general strike in South Africa highlights demand for radical policy...
Millions of workers took part in the general strike on February 24, according to the South African Federation of Trade Unions which called for...
McDonald’s SPIES on its employees seeking minimum wage of $15 per...
25 Feb, 2021
Fast food giant McDonald’s has reportedly set up a team of ‘intelligence analysts’ to monitor and gather data on employees suspected of...
800,000 COVID-19 deaths in Europe: capitalism, social murder and the case...
By Alex Lantier
Feb. 25, 2021
Yesterday, the official death toll from the coronavirus pandemic across Europe surpassed 800,000.
Death on this scale is so massive a...
Amazon changes timing of traffic lights in Alabama town to derail...
18 Feb, 2021
Online retail giant Amazon was so desperate to scuttle a unionization drive among warehouse workers in Alabama that it actually had traffic...