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How are union members using the Internet?

This article appears in Stronger Unions, , a news and comment blog about the UK trade union movement, managed by the TUC. Unions that want to communicate with their members using the new technologies face a problem….


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Should we boycott Amazon?

This article appears today in Solidarity. Recently, I co-authored a book on online campaigning for trade unions and self-published it using a print-on-demand service called CreateSpace. CreateSpace is a subsidiary of Amazon, the giant online…


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Clicktivism and the Unions

This article appears in Equal Times, the global news, opinion and campaign website about work, politics, the economy, development and the environment. Equal Times is supported by the 175 million-member International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)….



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Django, Lincoln and the Most Revolutionary Idea

This article appears today in Solidarity. “The emancipation of the working class must be the act of the workers themselves” – that’s a phrase which will be familiar to most Marxists and originates in the…