Ralph Darlington

Labour will listen to bosses’ concerns on workers’ rights, says business secretary Peter Kyle tells CBI conference he will ensure firms do not lose as a result of overhaul

What a spineless Labour government we have, fawning at the feet of business @strikemap.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff dies, aged 81 The musician was known for hits like You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now.

RIP Jimmy www.bbc.com/news/article...

Unoffical action leads to big win in Bristol schools strike Unofficial action gets results. That’s the lesson of the Cathedral School Trust (CST) strike in south west England. Support workers at the multi-academy trust, which controls 12 schools in Bristol and...

Unoffical action leads to big win in Bristol schools strike socialistworker.co.uk/news/unoffic...

"We've really lost a huge amount of pay in medicine. The fact we are still a fifth less well off than we were in 2008 I think is a damning indictment of the way many governments have treated public sector workers"

BMA deputy chair @redrunswick.bsky.social
speaks to the BBC ahead of strike action 👇

NEW 🚨| The latest issue of our workers of the world journal is now out.

This issue focuses on the struggle in Palestine 🇵🇸

Read and share here:
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#IASSC #InternationalSolidarity #Palestine

The AI arms race • International Socialism There are few areas of the global economy where fever dreams of crisis, competition and war are so tightly interwoven as they are in the production of what is misleadingly called Artificial Intelligen...

Ok, this is not an easy read given the complexity and unfamiliarity of the processes explored, but if you want some penetrating and deeply alarming insights into how the future is shaping up with AI - here it is!! isj.org.uk/ai-arms-race/

Solidarity with the resident (formerly known as ‘junior’) doctors as they prepare for battle once again @bma.org.uk

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Dame Cleo Laine obituary Celebrated singer with an agile contralto voice who, with her husband John Dankworth, helped bring new audiences to jazz

RIP Cleo Lane - one of the great of the greats
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Such an important and vitally needed initiative - get down to this megapicket if you can and show your solidarity with the Birmingham bin strikers @iassc.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @nwlhs.bsky.social @wedemandchangebris.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social
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1. Call for articles: submission deadline is July 15. 2. Deadline for article submissions is July 15. 3. Reminder: articles must be submitted by July 15.

Call for articles 🗣️🔊

Get yourself in our latest workers of the world journal.

Theme of our upcoming issue is 'Education, how, what and for whom?'

🚨Deadline: 15 July 2025

Read more and find out how to submit here: workersoftheworld.net/call-for-articles/

#IASSC

Promotional poster titled "Workers of the World, Call for Articles." Features a deadline of 15 May 2025, and topics of interest include worker themes, Palestine, and global resistance to genocide. Submission email is workersoftheworld1848@gmail.com. The poster has a stylized graphic of a person holding a loudspeaker with a globe in the background.

📣Call for articles 📣

Submit your articles for our next issue: Palestine and global resistance to genocide 🇵🇸.

🚨Deadline: 15 May 2025

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‘Vocabularies of motive and the 2022-23 strike wave in Britain’,
Professor Sian Moore, Anglia Ruskin University
Manchester Industrial Relations Society Annual Shirley Lerner Lecture Thursday 15 May 6-7.30pm – hybrid event mirs.org.uk

NEW 🚨 | Badges for the bin strike.

We have teamed up with Football Lads & Lasses Against Fascism to produce a solidarity pin badge to support the Birmingham Bin Strikers: bit.ly/BirminghamSo...

Help raise £1k for the Brum Bin Strike.

#StrikeMap

Happy Birthday indeed to Tom Mann. A Cov Kid instrumental to the rise of #19thC New Unionism, whose career as a labour organiser saw him agitate across five continents. His statue watches over our exhibition room & his archives give insights into the early labour movement, his life & work.

Happy birthday to the legendary labour agitator and organiser Tom Mann - 1856-1941 @sslh.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social @mrcwarwick.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @jirjournal.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social @redhen90.bsky.social

Strikers in Greece rage at a system that puts profit before human lives Boats have been docked, flights have been cancelled, and schools remain closed as tens of thousands of people take to the streets in Greece in a general strike.

Boats have been docked, flights have been cancelled, and schools remain closed as tens of thousands of people take to the streets in Greece in a general strike socialistworker.co.uk/uncategorise...

Superb meeting at the Working Class Movement Library last night with indomitable fighters Eileen Turnbull and Terry Renshaw on ‘A Very British Conspiracy: The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice’ - would highly really recommend Eileen’s book @sslh.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social

A poster advertising the talk by Eileen Turnbull at the Working Class Movement Library at 6.30pm, Thursday 3rd April. The poster shows five people holding a red banner that reads, 'Shrewsbury 24 Campaign. We Won!'

This Thursday evening at the Working Class Movement Library we are hosting an event with the North West Labour History Society, The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice, a talk by Eileen Turnbull. The event is free and open to all from 6.30pm.

Museums seek backing to celebrate the centenary of 1926 general strike

Museums seek backing to celebrate the centenary of 1926 general strike.

Read more about the #GeneralStrike100 partnership here: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/muse...

#GeneralStrike

This wonderful classic text - which includes Hal Draper’s famous pamphlet ‘The Two Souls of Socialism’ - makes the case that genuine liberation can only come from below, from the self-activity of workers and ordinary people @haymarketbooks.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social

My favourite art gallery in Manchester, the Whitworth, positively buzzing with people to see this great new exhibition on Women in Revolt - to be recommended

Graphic multidimensional analysis of the highs and lows of Australian trade unionism over the last 60 years in one crucial illustrative industry, with broader implications for all those committed to rebuilding strong and militant trade unionism today @sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social

Pleased to see my books in good company on the shelves at Warwick University’s library @iassc.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social

Superb new book that charts a century of activist and mass resistance. Wealth of photos interwoven with firsthand witness accounts alongside analysis by people like Dianne Atkinson. Paul Gilroy, Kate Hudson, Mary Kalder, Gary Younge, Leila Hassan Howe and edited by Steve McQueen

Now is the time of monsters* The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. Gramsci

Gramsci meets Tintin
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Back to the Modern Records Centre @MRCWarwick at Uni of Warwick this week to further peruse the wonderful Tom Mann collection of correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, publications and photographs @mrcwarwick.bsky.social
@sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social

Just received my copy of Richard Hyman’s new book - ‘The author who revolutionised the study of industrial relations in the 1970s returns with this….masterful introduction to the past, present + future of employment relations’
@bjireditor.bsky.social
@buiraonline.bsky.social
@keithbeard.bsky.social

Call for Articles | Workers of the World Call for Articles Palestine and global resistance to genocide The Workers of the World journal invites submissions for the upcoming themed issue, Palestine, and global resistance to genocide. The dead...

Call for papers on ‘Palestine and global resistance to genocide’ for a forthcoming issue of ‘Workers of the World, journal of the International Association of Strikes and Social Conflicts @iass.bsky.social
See details here:
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‘Strikes and Social Conflicts in Hostile Environments’ Conference being held in Washington, DC promises to be superb - deadline for abstracts now extended to 15 March bsky.app/profile/iass...

Animal Farm: When some are more equal than others Animal farm was co-opted by the right, but it's an allegory for the woes of Stalinism and how the counter-revolution defeated workers.

Coincidentally I’ve just rewatched Ken Loach’s wonderful movie ‘Land and Freedom’ on the Spanish Civil War, similar events portrayed in Orwell’s other great book ‘Homage to Catalonia’ which is often forgotten by those who stress the authoritarian side of AF socialistworker.co.uk/reviews-and-...