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ASSISTANCE NEEDED? A worker faces down the massed ranks of t
Features / 9 July 2023
9 July 2023
DAVE SMITH looks at the latest instalment of Mary Davis’s authoritative history of what remains today one of Britain’s most powerful unions during a period of intense struggle and panful retreat
Features / 24 May 2021
24 May 2021
Far from being confined to corporations and the police, blacklisting of trade unionists in the construction industry was colluded in by the trade union movement itself. DAVE SMITH hopes that the full truth will finally come out
Construction workers on the site of the new St James' Shoppi
Features / 24 March 2020
24 March 2020
If managers continue to ignore reasonable requests and health advice, then it’s time to organise coronavirus walkouts to force greedy employers to close down building sites, says DAVE SMITH
Features / 24 September 2017
24 September 2017
DAVE SMITH asks if anyone believes the anti-democratic political policing units will be impartial when Labour wins the next election