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 bsky.app/profile/stri...

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

📣Call for articles 📣 Submit your articles for our next issue: Palestine and global resistance to genocide 🇵🇸. 🚨Deadline: 15 May 2025 Read more and find out how to submit here: socialhistoryportal.org/news/article... #IASSC

‘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

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

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. 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

Gramsci meets Tintin wp.me/p15p2Q-dHG

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 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: workersoftheworld.net/call-for-art...

‘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...

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-...

great turnout in support of AFGE and federal workers on general right in front of the Capitol Building

‘Strikes and Social Conflicts in Hostile Environments’ Conference being held in Washington, DC, promises to be superb

“Palestine and global resistance to genocide”. Workers of the World online journal call for articles: @iassc.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2025. workersoftheworld.net/call-for-art...

“Strikes and Social Conflicts in Hostile Environments” Conference - International Association of Strikes and Social Conflicts @iassc.bsky.social call for papers: iassc-net.org

🗣️ Call for papers 🗣️ We’re hosting our 7th conference on 5-6 September 2025 at Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC (USA). Our conference theme: Strikes and Social Conflicts in Hostile Environments Submit your abstracts: bit.ly/IASSC7CallFo... 🚨Deadline: 1 March 2025 🚨 #IASSC7 #IASSC

Interesting, challenging and provocative series of (now) free-to-download contributions on the past and present of the working class, trade union and socialist movements internationally: International Labor and Working-Class History: Volume 106 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What book would you choose? sslh.org.uk/2022/12/17/w...

Wonderful (newly reissued, larger format and much expanded) photographic record of one of the most defining events of British history - the great miners’ strike of 1984-5 - available from Bookmarks bookshop in London

We're outside Harrods, where hundreds of the luxury department store workers are on strike! Join the picket line! ✊🏽 #UVWstrikes

Yet another TUC head ends up being elevated to the House of Lords, that well known bastion of class struggle www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Amazon workers in the US could go on strike ahead of Christmas, after members of the Teamsters union voted to support industrial action Amazon faces US strike threat ahead of Christmas www.bbc.com/news/article...

New issue of ‘Workers of the World’ out - journal of rhe International Association of Strikes and Social Conflicts @strikemap.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social workersoftheworld.net/volume-1-num...

Public sector workers will only get above inflation pay increases if they improve productivity, Downing Street has said www.bbc.com/news/article...

The government is set for a clash with trade unions after ministers recommended a 2.8% pay rise for teachers, NHS staff and other public sector workers next year www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

#OtD 5 Dec 1944 workers at the Dodge truck plant in Detroit, Michigan, went on wildcat strike, just one of the many illegal wartime strikes which took place that year. Learn more about the strike wave in this great book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/...

The incredible @redhen90.bsky.social co-founder of @strikemap.bsky.social. explains the importance of rank-and-file activist strike solidarity and fanning the flames of struggle that lies behind tonight’s launch of the annual report @GFTU1

Putting struggle on the map - launch of Strike Map’s annual report on strikes in 2023 in ⁦‪@MechanicsManch‬⁩ @redhen90.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social

🚀 Launched today 🚀 Our first ever report into the data we have collected. Strike Map data shows 170,000 workplaces took strike action in 2023. Download our full report here: bit.ly/SMReport2024 #StrikeMap

First ever academic annual report into the data StrikeMap have been collecting - which provided an in-depth examination of the strike wave of 2022-23. Join the launch meeting this Thursday 5 December 6pm Mechanics Institute, Manchester Register here: bit.ly/SMreportlaunch

working link! actionnetwork.org/events/gftu-...

Not long to go now until we host the Trade Union and Working Class History event with @gftuet.bsky.social ! Register to join online: gftuet.org.uk/courses/trad... Register to join in person: actionnetwork.org/events/gftu-... Wednesday 4th December at 7PM at the Working Class Movement Library

Thousands of workers took part in a general strike in Italy on Friday. It forced the Italian national airline company to cancel dozens of domestic and international flights and closed schools, hospitals and local transport systems socialistworker.co.uk/internationa...

I've made 7 free online courses to help you read Karl Marx: Reading Marx's Capital v1 (2019 & 2007 eds) Reading Marx's Capital v2 Reading Marx's Grundrisse (2023 & 2020 eds) Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason The ABC of Contemporary Capital davidharvey.org/reading-capi...

Science and Natural History Museum strikers roar at their Neanderthal security firm bosses socialistworker.co.uk/news/natural...

A unique photo book showing the best work of the photographers who stood with the miners’ strike in 1984-85 and lived in the mining communities. For details of how to buy the book and for praise for it see minersstrike.com?fbclid=IwZXh...

We are just over 1 week away from our very first hybrid Trade Union and Working Class History event, @wcmlibrary.bsky.social Register to join online: gftuet.org.uk/courses/trad... Register to join in person: actionnetwork.org/events/gftu-... 7pm | 4 December #GFTUET #GFTU #GFTU125

PCS wins historic battle against government departments in the Supreme Court www.ier.org.uk/news/pcs-win...