May Day 2024: Stop the drive to war! Build a new Britain! Bristol
Wednesday 1 May, 6pm - 9pm
The Golden Guinea Function Room, 19 Guinea Street, Bristol BS1 6SX
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May Day 2024: Stop the drive to war! Build a new Britain! Glasgow
May Day 2024: Stop the drive to war! Build a new Britain! Manchester
Saturday 4 May, 2pm
Upstairs at The Britons Protection, 50 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester M1 5LE
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May Day 2024: Stop the drive to war! Build a new Britain!
Wednesday 1 May 7.30 pm
Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Celebrate May Day and join the discussion about how the working class of Britain can build a new Britain as the drive to war intensifies.
All welcome. Free entry.
A short twelve months ago NHS workers and their unions were deep in preparation for what everyone knew was going to be a major battle on that most central of issues, pay and conditions.
8 September 2023
We received this letter from a Workers reader in east London about a recent shopping trip. Although it was a novel experience, this may be happening around Britain more often than we realise. The challenge is how not let this go to waste – to act and not just grumble.
The resurgence in working class struggle – after years of relative quiet – is proof that progress is possible.
Control is the power of directing what happens in a country, or an industry. We say workers must take control, but that has quite a different meaning for workers than for capitalists…
18 March 2023
Control over borders is the best way for a country to develop its economy and benefit its people. Such self-determination and independence serve the cause of workers everywhere.
May Day 2023. Workers! Take Charge of Britain! Manchester
Celebrate May Day with a social gathering and informal discussion.
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May Day 2023. Workers! Take Charge of Britain! Bristol
Saturday 6 May, 2pm
Room G01, Tony Benn House, Victoria Street, Bristol BS1 6AY
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May Day 2023. Workers! Take Charge of Britain!
Monday 1 May 7.30 pm
Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Celebrate May Day and join the discussion about how the working class of Britain can move forward.
All welcome. Free entry.
Since the 2008 crash governments have increased the money supply, with no improvement in productivity. This imbalance is the main cause of the current inflation.
Don’t divide Britain: unity not devolution
Discuss why attempts to break up the unity of Britain – through both separatism and regionalism – are an attack on the working class.
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How in practice can the working class assert control?
Tuesday 21 February 2023, 7.30pm
Bertrand Russell Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
The ruling class is clearly incapable of governing Britain. Where does that leave the working class? Come and discuss.
All welcome. Free Entry.
In many ways the situation facing workers in Britain is as dire as it has been at any time since the Second World War. But there is a shining light: the army of the working class is on the move.
When a strike takes place, when workers withdraw their labour, they and their employers are confronted with the truth: workers are essential to capitalism.
Another month, another prime minister. And yet underneath nothing has changed at all. British capitalism, the oldest in the world and arguably the most cunning, is out of ideas and out of time.
Democracy literally means “rule by the people”. That’s not what our current parliamentary democracy does. It’s not fit for purpose and it does not represent the people of Britain…
Real Control for Real Independence
Sunday 1 May 7.30 pm
Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Celebrate May Day and join the discussion about how the working class must lead in the fight for a future for Britain.
Back in the nineteenth century Karl Marx wrote that society was dividing into two great hostile classes: the workers, and those who live from exploiting the labour of others. It’s a perfect description of Britain today…
What is the working class?
This meeeting is in-person! Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL.
Tuesday 22 March. 7.30pm.
The working class is changing. But does that mean the fundamentals of class have changed?
Come and discuss. All welcome. Free entry.
Discussion meeting (via Zoom): What is the working class?
The working class is changing. But does that mean the fundamentals of class have changed?
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16 January 2021
This useful book analyses and criticises the anti-working class attitudes of all too many in the labour movement.
As the 19th century dawned, trade unions were made illegal, prices rose, wages fell. Skilled workers led the fightback…
The ruling class, the establishment – call it what you will – has always underestimated the people of Britain.
Suddenly, politicians seem to be wanting to talk about work. Low wage work, minimum wage work, gig work, any kind of work. Just as long as there’s no contradiction between employers and workers…
We look at two struggles from the late 19th century that helped define our class, and what Britain means…
25 February 2017
Since the birth of industrial capitalism, a web of industrial sinews has held the constituent regions of Britain together. The recent dismembering of much of that web has brought not only economic collapse to regions but also threatened our national integrity. We recount struggles in Scotland, London and North Wales that pursued essential class goals of improving wages and conditions of work.
