"In 2018, more than 4,000 Google employees signed a letter opposing the company’s contract to build artificial intelligence for the Pentagon’s targeting systems. Workers organised a walk out. Engineers quit. And Google ultimately abandoned the contract."
Worker organisation has power […]
#Disaffiliation is the way for all #TradesUnions to go until @uklabourparty.bsky.social is taken back from the thieves and vagabonds who now run it.
If they don’t revert to a Labour principles then it’s time for a requiem mass.
#RIPLabourParty
Massively happy to be doing a talk at #SIGNAL in #Malmö next month entitled Coal, Conflict and Class Struggle - Thatcherism and the Destruction of Collectivism in the UK.
More info to come!
#solidarity #tradesunions #coalmining #coalnotdole
#Tradesunions take #SaudiArabia to #UN labour body over exploitation and deaths of migrant workers buff.ly/Lke0wLb #modernslavery
If you happen to be in Dorset on a Thursday, do drop by Tolpuddle and visit the restored old chapel and explore its connection to the #TolpuddleMartyrs #TradesUnions and #socialjustice
John Prescott self-made and Right Honourable, Rest in Peace 🤍 and thank you for your service and leadership, fire in belly inspiring conference speeches, and vital role in 1997-2010 administration, before and beyond. #legend #RIP #condolences #Prescott #tradesunions #education #Labourmovement
Page from the Railway Service Journal, October 1931 entitled Equality of Sacrifice. The cartoon image shows a chasm bridged by workers (identified as such by writing on one of the figures' trousers; they are each holding onto one anothers' ankles. At each end a man holds a scroll with the label "taxes". Walking over them, crossing the chasm and trampling them underfoot are three men wearing top hats and tail coats, smoking cigars and carrying briefcases labelled "Banker". From the first bankers' cigar a smoke cloud issues containing the wording: "You see all we need to bridge the gap is Patriotism - a little Personal Sacrifice"
A hearty welcome to all our new followers! Expect content from our fantastic archives covering nineteenth to the twenty first century on politics, labour, activism and more. Explore more on our website: warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #Activism #LabourHistory #TradesUnions
