It’s a great pity to have to admit that things have been so bad for the union movement for such a long time. So torpid and uninspir...

In case it perhaps have gone un-noticed considering the initial publicity (and the Scotsman has deemed it not worthy of a follow up story) ...

The function of a trade union is to eliminate competition among workers on the labour market. But if the trade union, as an organizati...

In every country capitalism has produced a highly developed trade union movement. Workers have struggled to build trade unions and long b...

Capitalism has brought the technology and the organisation of production to a point where the potential to adequately feed, clothe and h...

“Solidarity for ever,   For the Union makes us strong.” The union movement has proven itself to be a powerful instrument of a defensiv...

Cameron has ordered an investigation into union tactics in the wake of the threatened closure of the Grangemouth oil refinery, that saw Uni...

 “abolition of the wages system.” There is a post-mortem taking place amongst the labour movement and the Left parties about the deve...

The class struggle is not over, the battle of the working class is not finished, the fight to achieve socialism, is not redundant nor ‘o...

The object of the Socialist Party is to achieve socialism. The purpose of a trade union is to make the best terms for its members with em...

After all the headlines about the Falkirk MP-selection rigging by the Unite union have  Radio Scotland described the row as “much ado abou...

Marx highlighted the weak spot of all trade unionism. What every worker must realise is that through trade union struggle we are not fi...

You cannot be a union man,  No matter how you try, Unless you think in terms of “we” Instead of terms of “I” Faced with austerity and ...

The Socialist Party claims that the wealth of society is created by the workers. The working class alone does the world’s work, has cr...

“We don't only build ships on the Clyde, we build men. They have taken on the wrong people and we will fight." - Jimmy Reid Oc...

Have no illusions about the role of governments, the police or the law - the defence of capitalism and exploitation is the main function...

The working class are as our Chartist forefathers were not afraid to call it, a class of wages slaves. Yet today we are less preoccupied wi...

The strike has long been labour's most powerful weapon. Strikes put pressure on the employer - which needs the employees' labour to...

Scab is the number one worst thing one we can call a fellow worker, and we need to be very careful how we use it. It is the worst thing tha...