Where Did All the Workers Go? Television once portrayed labour struggles and the central role work plays in our lives. Why have modern dramas pushed these stories off screen?

My piece on The Tribune website today called 'Where Did All the Workers Go?' where television once portrayed labour struggles and the central role work plays in our lives but why have modern dramas pushed these stories off screen?
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/02/wher...

Where Did All the Workers Go? Television once portrayed labour struggles and the central role work plays in our lives. Why have modern dramas pushed these stories off screen?

@tribunemagazine.bsky.social My piece on The Tribune website today called 'Where Did All the Workers Go?' where television once portrayed labour struggles and the central role work plays in our lives but why have modern dramas pushed these stories off screen?
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/02/wher...

World Trotskyism in 2025: A Brief Sketch - Historical Materialism 2025 has proved to be another difficult year for the Trotskyist movement. Despite reasonable election results in Argentina and Germany, extensive involvement in the new left party in Britain and a mer...

Interesting analysis of the current state of the far left around the world:
www.historicalmaterialism.org/world-trotsk...

Level of strikes in Britain in December 2025 continued uptick from previous month so 118,000 days not worked 252 strikes by 35,000 workers. Takes us back to early 2024 levels but not levels of 2023.

Manchester University Press - Mick Lynch Mick Lynch - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Mick Lynch by Gregor Gall

@manchesterup.bsky.social Until the end of this month, i.e., Saturday this week (28/2/26), my 2024 biography of RMT union leader has a 70% discount on it for sales in the UK - normally £20, now just £6 plus postage
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Manchester University Press - Mick Lynch Mick Lynch - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Mick Lynch by Gregor Gall

Until the end of this month, i.e., Saturday this week (28/2/26), my 2024 biography of RMT union leader has a 70% discount on it for sales in the UK - normally £20, now just £6 plus postage
Just use FLASH70 code at the checkout
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@buiraonline.bsky.social Our latest article is on the union default, published by the journal, Economic and Industrial Democracy, is now up online and called 'Self-representation and non-union employee representation: Implications for a union default' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Our latest article is on the union default, published by the journal, Economic and Industrial Democracy, is now up online and called 'Self-representation and non-union employee representation: Implications for a union default' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

@buiraonline.bsky.social Our latest article is on the union default is now up online, called 'Self-representation and non-union employee representation: Implications for a union default' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Our latest article is on the union default is now up online, called 'Self-representation and non-union employee representation: Implications for a union default' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Unity is the only route to electoral success for Scotland’s radical left DOES the arrival of Your Party Scotland (YPS) herald the beginning of a new dawn for the radical left in Scotland with the approach of the Scottish…

My piece in The National today on the prospects for the radical left in the Scottish Parliament elections on 7 May 2026 - called 'Unity is the only route to electoral success for Scotland’s left'

www.thenational.scot/politics/258...

Unity is the only route to electoral success for Scotland’s radical left DOES the arrival of Your Party Scotland (YPS) herald the beginning of a new dawn for the radical left in Scotland with the approach of the Scottish…

@scotnational.bsky.social My piece in The National today on the prospects for the radical left in the Scottish Parliament elections on 7 May 2026 - called 'Unity is the only route to electoral success for Scotland’s left'

www.thenational.scot/politics/258...

From 16/2/26 to 28/2/26, my biography of RMT union leader has a 70% discount on it for sales in the UK - normally £20, now just £6 plus postage
Just use FLASH70 code at the checkout
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173096

Manchester University Press - Mick Lynch Mick Lynch - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Mick Lynch by Gregor Gall

From 16/2/26 to 28/2/26, my biography of RMT union leader has a 70% discount on it for sales in the UK - normally £20, now just £6 plus postage
Just use FLASH70 code at the checkout
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173096

Manchester University Press - Mick Lynch Mick Lynch - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Mick Lynch by Gregor Gall

@manchesterup.bsky.social From 16/2/26 to 28/2/26, my biography of RMT union leader has a 70% discount on it for sales in the UK - normally £20, now just £6 plus postage
Just use FLASH70 code at the checkout
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173096

Manchester University Press - Mick Lynch Mick Lynch - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Mick Lynch by Gregor Gall

@manchesterup.bsky.social From 16/2/26 to 28/2/26, my biography of RMT union leader has a 70% discount on it for sales in the UK - normally £20, now just £6 plus postage
Just use FLASH70 code at the checkout
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173096

@manchesterup.bsky.social From 16/2/26 to 28/2/26, my biography of RMT union leader has a 70% discount on it for sales in the UK - normally £20, now just £6 plus postage
Just use FLASH70 code at the checkout
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173096

‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say? Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote

‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say?
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

The Open Shop, Closed Shop, Agency Shop, and Union Default in Comparative Perspective: Members, Resources, and Individual Autonomy Strategies designed to revive the declining union movement require new resources and new members for success. For this, many unions often used closed or agency shops. We compare these with the now do....

@buiraonline.bsky.social Our new (open access) Industrial Relations Journal article comparing the benefits of the union default proposal with open, closed and agency shops in terms of members, resources, and individual autonomy
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Open Shop, Closed Shop, Agency Shop, and Union Default in Comparative Perspective: Members, Resources, and Individual Autonomy Strategies designed to revive the declining union movement require new resources and new members for success. For this, many unions often used closed or agency shops. We compare these with the now do....

Our new (open access) Industrial Relations Journal article comparing the benefits of the union default proposal with open, closed and agency shops in terms of members, resources, and individual autonomy
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Do Your Party have what it takes to turn words into deeds in May's election? Professor Gregor Gall reports from inside Your Party's founding Scottish conference, where both Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana spoke

@scotnational.bsky.social My National report on second day of the founding conference of Your Party Scotland in Dundee called 'Do Your Party have what it takes to turn words into deeds in May's election?' It’s a mountain to climb with just 12 weeks to do it in
www.thenational.scot/news/2583645...

Do Your Party have what it takes to turn words into deeds in May's election? Professor Gregor Gall reports from inside Your Party's founding Scottish conference, where both Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana spoke

My report for The National newspaper on the second day of the founding conference of Your Party Scotland in Dundee called 'Do Your Party have what it takes to turn words into deeds in May's election?' It’s a mountain to climb with just 12 weeks to do it in.
www.thenational.scot/news/2583645...

Do Your Party have what it takes to turn words into deeds in May's election? Professor Gregor Gall reports from inside Your Party's founding Scottish conference, where both Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana spoke

@yourparty.scot My report for The National newspaper on the second day of the founding conference of Your Party Scotland in Dundee called 'Do Your Party have what it takes to turn words into deeds in May's election?'
www.thenational.scot/news/2583645...

Do Your Party have what it takes to turn words into deeds in May's election? Professor Gregor Gall reports from inside Your Party's founding Scottish conference, where both Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana spoke

@scotnational.bsky.social My report for The National newspaper on the second day of the founding conference of Your Party Scotland in Dundee called 'Do Your Party have what it takes to turn words into deeds in May's election?'
www.thenational.scot/news/2583645...

Do Your Party have what it takes to turn words into deeds in May's election? Professor Gregor Gall reports from inside Your Party's founding Scottish conference, where both Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana spoke

My report for The National newspaper on the second day of the founding conference of Your Party Scotland in Dundee called 'Do Your Party have what it takes to turn words into deeds in May's election?'
www.thenational.scot/news/2583645...

Inside Your Party's first conference in Scotland – everything we learned on day 1 Addressing the opening of the founding conference of Your Party Scotland, Glasgow councillor Dan Hutchison said attendees were 'starting…

@yourparty.scot My report for The National newspaper on the first day of Your Party Scotland's founding conference in Dundee this weekend
www.thenational.scot/news/2583584...

Inside Your Party's first conference in Scotland – everything we learned on day 1 Addressing the opening of the founding conference of Your Party Scotland, Glasgow councillor Dan Hutchison said attendees were 'starting…

@scotnational.bsky.social My report for The National newspaper on the first day of Your Party Scotland's founding conference in Dundee this weekend
www.thenational.scot/news/2583584...

Inside Your Party's first conference in Scotland – everything we learned on day 1 Addressing the opening of the founding conference of Your Party Scotland, Glasgow councillor Dan Hutchison said attendees were 'starting…

My report for The National newspaper on the first day of Your Party Scotland's founding conference in Dundee this weekend
www.thenational.scot/news/2583584...

There are other elements to be factored in like job security/career progression. But on the other side, there has also been the sacrifice of 59 days wages through striking. While the BMA has a hardship fund, as far as I know, it does not pay strike pay so the loss of wages will be almost total.

Wes Streeting to offer resident doctors bigger pay rise to end dispute Health secretary to increase pay offer and guarantee working conditions for resident doctors only

Evidence that striking does eventually work?
'Wes Streeting to offer resident doctors bigger pay rise to end dispute: Health secretary to increase pay offer and guarantee working conditions for resident doctors only'
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...