Weeks before the disputed Presidential election, long before the explosion of dissent into the streets of Tehran, there were already signs that not all was well in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Mass arrests at…
Take a look at this screenshot. Click on the image to enlarge it. Do you see what I see? In the center of your screen is Apple iTunes software. But look carefully at the top…
Look carefully at the image to the left. This is not an iPhone. It is an iPod touch with something that looks just like a thumbtack stuck into the bottom of it. This thing is…
It seems like every day, there’s another way to publish information on the net. There are traditional websites, RSS feeds, Twitter, blogs, social networks, SMS text messages and of course email. Union members are using…
That was the title of a debate held on Thursday evening at Durham University and hosted by the Durham Union Society. I was invited to be one of the three proponents. Other speakers included Jonathan…
Steve Early’s article “Reading, Writing and Union Building” is an excellent overview of the state of union book sales and publishing. As he quotes from something I wrote four years ago, I thought it might…
Unionprofessionals.org.uk is a new website built by the TUC for people who work for trade unions. Unlike the much-better known Unionreps.org.uk which is used by thousands of union reps across the UK, this site is…
One of the ironies of the twentieth century was that as capitalism globalised, the labour movement retreated from its internationalist tradition. But the emergence of the Internet in the early 1990s seemed set to offer…
Ungeachtet der drohenden Repression hat die Lehrergewerkschaft im Iran einen landesweiten Streik angekündigt. Auch im Irak ist die Regierung nicht erfreut über unabhängige Gewerkschaften.
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