Defend our unions!
The bleating from the bourgeois press about disruption on 10 July strike day has given Cameron an excuse to restate the Tories’ intention to almost ban strikes in the public sector through changes to balloting laws. It does not take much for UK employers and their political representatives in the Tory Party to demand further curbs on employees freedom to organise and take action in their own interests at work. It would be easy to forget that we already have the most anti-worker union laws in the richer capitalist countries. Laws put in during the Thatcher union-bashing years of the 1980s and...