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News and articles about work, policy and workers' struggles in the energy sector around the world.
Mining communities, unemployment and incapacity benefits
As the government prepares to slash incapacity benefits, Rob Ray looks at a report brought out last year which is amongst the starkest examples of how incapacity has been used in recent years to hide much of the country's unemployment problems.
'20 Years on: Has the economy of the coalfields recovered?' examined communities where over 10% of the population had been employed in the mines before the mass closures.
The report, brought out by the Centre for regional and social economic research at Sheffield Hallam university, said:
Goodbye to the Unions! - A Controversy About Autonomous Class Struggle in Great Britiain
A debate between Dutch Council communist Cajo Brendel and NUM official Dave Douglass about the nature of trade unions.
CONTENTS
- Introduction (Henri Simon)
- Summary of the book "Autonomous Class Struggle in Great Britain" by Cajo Brendel (Cajo Brendel)
- Some thoughts as I read the pamphlet "Autonomous Class Struggle in Britain" (Dave Douglas)
- Answer to Dave Douglas (Cajo Brendel)
- Rise and Decline of the Shop Stewards Movements as a Mediating Force (Theo Sander)
1912: The Miners' Next Step
A document produced in 1912 by the South Wales Miners Federation, which was one of the high points of syndicalist organising in the UK.
Being a suggested scheme for the Reorganisation of the Federation.
Issued by the Unofficial Reform Committee, Tonypandy, 1912
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