French lessons – What we can learn from the 1988 hospital workers’ strike coordinations in France
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Apr 4 2021 09:10
We translated the following two texts from 1988, because we think that there are still things we can learn from the strike movement back then. Today in the UK we are confronting similar questions: how can we organise the struggle for higher wages in the NHS and defeat the insulting 1% pay offer? How can we overcome divisions into different unions and professional groups and regions (e.g. with the government in Scotland offering a still puny 4% increase)
Pipelines, Pandemics and Capital’s Death Cult: A Green Syndicalist View
Covid outbreaks at extractives industry sites bring together shared interests and concerns of the diverse working class—blue collar and white collar workers in various industries, Indigenous people, including site workers. This provides a green syndicalist analysis of these issues and convergence points of resistance.
Militant inquiry into the ‘white factory’ (hospital) – Part one – Wildcat April 1988
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Mar 15 2021 07:28
1%? Up yours! We need health workers' and patients' power!
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Mar 5 2021 17:40
Things are heating up – the 1% pay increase insult dished out by the government led to a lot of angry discussions in tea rooms and on ward floors.
London Workers Group Bulletin #13 February 1983
An issue of the LWG bulletin from 1983. Contents include NHS Dispute, ASLEF strike, Work or Dole?, Correspondence, Unemployed Groups, Press Agency job report, The Economic Crisis.
Health Wealth & Inequality
The link between poverty and ill-health is well documented but a new study shows a direct correlation between inequality and health – the more equally income is distributed, the healthier society.
An article from Black Flag #219 (2000)
Hospital Workers Fight Covid
Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Oct 28 2020 08:07
This video shows a protest of health workers of the privatized Highland Hospital in Alameda County / California on October 7, 2020.
https://en.labournet.tv/hospital-workers-fight-covid-privatization-bullying-union-busting
Video by laborvideo
Leaflet to health workers in Brussels - Mouvement Communiste/Kolektivně proti kapitálu
On Sunday, 13 September 2020, there was a demo by a few thousand health workers in Brussels, organised by "Santé en Lutte" ("Health in Struggle"). This leaflet was distributed there by comrades of MC/KpK.
Caribbean women and the black community
Submitted by wojtek on Jul 8 2020 22:41
Race Today Women on the collective struggles by Caribbean women in Britain. Published in April, 1975.
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