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Labour hails Thatcher and Trump, pledging to “cut the weeds of regulation”
29 Jan 2025 23:31 GMT
… against the 1984-85 miners’ strike and then the printworkers … increases from public sector workers, Starmer went as far … ever seen,” even Labour’s raising of employers’ National Insurance contributions … lowering wages and cutting jobs—was treated as an …
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The Evolving Strategy for Defending Immigrant Workers
29 Jan 2025 19:03 GMT
… immigrant labor is long: meatpacking, some construction jobs, building … workers contribute labor, but that the cost is acceptable to corporate employers … unions of workers ranging from copper miners to janitors … The largest farm labor strike in US history, …
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Brawdoliaeth, cymuned a gwrywdod: glowyr a'r streiciau yng Nghymru
31 Jan 2025 20:17 GMT
… dosbarth gweithiol.
Paentiwyd On Strike gan David Lawrence Carpanini … at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain gan … Museum, 'Miners' Strike 1974: a victory for workers';, 2024
… the Unsung Heroes of the Miners' Strike, John Blake Publishing, …
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The Chris Hedges Report: Technofeudalism
30 Jan 2025 23:56 GMT
… with particular jobs, not employers, but jobs.
Employers dish out these jobs that can … , it’s like the miners used to get scrip, … I call experiential labor. It’s labor which is, in … organize them along with workers that strike. That combination of traditional …
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Channel 4’s Mrs Thatcher drama is as deluded & venomous as you’d expect… why does it vilify the Iron Lady at every turn?
30 Jan 2025 22:10 GMT
… divisions of the 1984-85 miners’ strike which managed to avoid … still belongs to the same Labour Party I also joined … the Falklands, dragged the Labour leadership kicking and screaming towards … of thousands of “communist” workers when she visited Gdansk, in …
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Tariq Ali – a political life
30 Jan 2025 19:37 GMT
… to hecklers.
The Socialist Workers Party (International Socialists at … members into skilled manual jobs in industry or transport. … the situation – the big miners’ strike was still to come anyway … and Hackney and Stoke Newington Labour Party, a contributor to …
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David Trotter: Don’t go quietly
29 Jan 2025 19:19 GMT
… an area of ‘dead-end jobs, crumbling houses, dirty streets … of analysis. Black women workers are prominent in the camaraderie … apart from the mine which employs his elder brother, Jud … miners’ strike) as a living reproof to the serial ‘treachery’ of the Labour …
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25 movies turning 25 years old in 2025
28 Jan 2025 09:41 GMT
… the sheer size of the job. Watching the first film back … , not to mention his day job running a hip record store … ground. While his stranded FedEx worker has charm and integrity to … England during the mid-‘80s miners’ strike. It’s a crowd pleasing …
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Ken Capstick, right-hand man to Arthur Scargill
28 Jan 2025 03:54 GMT
… of Neil Kinnock’s Labour Party blocked his selection … joining Scargill’s breakaway Socialist Labour Party, becoming its treasurer … from 2004.
Rejected by Labour in the 1990s, Capstick … 40th anniversary of the 1984 miners’ strike.
Baroness Thatcher died in …
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What is a Working Class Hero?
27 Jan 2025 21:01 GMT
… deal of your parents' job is to take orders and … is time, to pick a job (rather than a career) which … an essay on the coal miners' strike. Two years later she won … a number of years defending workers with the Workers Defense Union against the Palmer …