UK forum discusses prospects to build the Communist League

Vol. 87/No. 37 - October 9, 2023
Over the past year 1,000 workers at Amazon sites in U.K., above, have taken 26 days of strike action fighting long hours, low pay. Inset, Communist League leader Jonathan Silberman speaks at Sept. 2 London Militant Labour Forum. CL had met week before, discussed new openings to build revolutionary working-class party.

LONDON — The end of a decadeslong retreat of the labor movement presents new opportunities for the Communist League, Jonathan Silberman told 40 people at a special Militant Labour Forum here Sept. 2. Silberman was speaking on behalf of the…


UK rail unions picket against cuts in ticket offices, jobs

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023

MANCHESTER, England — Striking members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union were joined on picket lines by disability rights campaigners and other trade unionists in many parts of the country during one-day strikes by 20,000 rail workers on…


Amazon workers picket warehouses in UK over long hours, low wages

Vol. 87/No. 31 - August 21, 2023

COVENTRY, England — Hundreds of workers picketed outside Amazon’s large BHX4 warehouse here Aug. 4. Dozens more picketed at a smaller facility in nearby Rugeley. Altogether over 1,000 workers took two days of strike action, marking the first anniversary of…


Bipartisan attack on Boris Johnson imperils rights in UK

Vol. 87/No. 28 - July 31, 2023

LONDON — In a bipartisan assault on political rights, a parliamentary committee moved to suspend former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson from Parliament before he resigned June 9. The move threatens freedoms that are needed and used by working people.…


UK abortion jailing poses fight to meet social needs of families

Vol. 87/No. 25 - July 10, 2023

LONDON — The jailing of Carla Foster for having an abortion during the eighth month of pregnancy has stirred discussion here about the broader impact of the deepening capitalist crisis on working people and the fight for women’s rights. Foster,…


Refuse workers in London win pay raise after strike

Vol. 87/No. 25 - July 10, 2023

WELWYN GARDEN CITY, England — Refuse workers here and in Hatfield, towns north of London, returned to work June 23 after striking for better pay four days earlier. Employed by the waste-collection outfit Urbaser, more than 90 members of the…


Paper workers in the UK strike over pay, respect

Vol. 87/No. 21 - May 29, 2023

MANCHESTER, England — Forty production workers at Saica Paper UK here have been carrying out a series of one-day strikes for higher pay and better job conditions. The Unite union members voted 97% in favor of strike action after rejecting…


Nurses in UK fight over pay and conditions in gov’t health system

Vol. 87/No. 21 - May 29, 2023

BY ANDRÉS MENDOZA, DAG TIRSÉN AND PAMELA HOLMES LONDON — Thousands of nurses and other health workers took part in a one-day work stoppage at half the hospitals across England May 1, in a long-running dispute with the government over…


Nurses and teachers in U.K. set strike action over pay

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023

MANCHESTER, England — Nurses, members of the Royal College of Nursing union, who before last December had never gone on strike in their 106-year history, voted April 14 to reject the government’s most recent pay offer, against their national officers’…


Communist League: ‘Amnesty for immigrant workers in UK’

Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023
Tens of thousands of teachers and civil service workers demonstrate in one-day strike in London March 15 for higher pay, better working conditions. Labor battles today require unity of all workers, including countering government anti-immigrant measures and demanding amnesty.

MANCHESTER, England — “The unions should fight for amnesty for all workers who the government says don’t have ‘proper’ papers,” Peter Clifford, Communist League candidate for Manchester City Council, told retired sewing machine operator Pam Grocock when he knocked on…