This article appears on Stronger Unions, the blog of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in the UK. In the labour movement we’re often fond of our history. We preserve certain traditions, we celebrate some holidays,…
This article appears in Solidarity. Feel free to add your comments below. It was a beautiful May morning, one of the first warm and sunny days we’ve had all year. In Clerkenwell Green, hundreds of…
The collapse of the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh has horrified people all over the world. Everyone wants to see something done about us, to ensure that it never happens again. But not everyone agrees on…
I like to keep a record of the books I’ve read, and like millions of others, have found online communities to be a good way of doing this. In recent years, I’ve used two of…
This article appeared in Solidarity. Please feel free to add your comments there. Socialist Worker last week reported on the escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula – but in topsy-turvy world of the fast-decaying…
I have been trying to do something fairly simple: I wanted to write a web page that could render well on a small screen (like a mobile phone) and which would display content from the…
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. Please post any comments there. Four years ago, the stars of the successful BBC comedy series “Gavin and Stacey” made the mistake of starring in an…
This article appeared today in Solidarity. When George W. Bush proclaimed his “War on Terror” more than a decade ago, there was some concern in the USA and its allies that the war might not…
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….