Britain: Crucial Election Gears up in AMICUS! The forthcoming elections in AMICUS to elect the 48 lay member executive for the newly formed union of 730,000 members will be the beginning of a new era for workers in a whole range of industries. For many on the left over the years, the prospect of electing a leftwing executive committee to the former AEEU could only be a wild dream from which they would have expected to wake up at any minute. Yet the prospect is now very real.
2003 Congress: TUC must support workers in struggle The British TUC (Trades Union Congress) Congress opens up today. NUJ General Secretary and TUC General Council member Jeremy Dear spoke to Socialist Appeal about the tasks and perspectives for the trade union movement
The New Situation in Britain A general perspectives document on the economic, social, political and trade union position in Britain, produced at the beginning of 2003 by the Socialist Appeal Editorial Board.