Leading labour movement activists warned yesterday that Prime Minister David Cameron's latest anti-union stunt is a highly dangerous plot to impose even more repressive laws.
The PM has unleashed a six-month "review" into trade union practices amid scurrilous media hype around the Unite union's campaign to save the Grangemouth petrochemical plant.
Bruce Carr QC will consider whether the law needs tightening to prevent trade union "intimidation," declared Tory Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude.
PAUL BUHLE recommends an eminently useful book that examines the political opportunities for popular anti-fascist intervention
PAUL BUHLE agrees that a grassroots movements for change in needed in the US, independent of electoral politics
As bus builder Alexander Dennis threatens Falkirk closure and Grangemouth faces ruthless shutdown by tax exile Jim Ratcliffe, RICHARD LEONARD MSP warns that global corporations must be resisted by a bold industrial strategy based on public ownership


