All unions and their members are warmly invited and welcome to join us for the march and following Festival with music, community and TU stalls, speeches and commemorative chaplet laying to the historic Silk Mill workers who were locked out by their employers in 1833/4 for failing to accept a pay cut and renounce their rights to be a Trade […]
Free training and networking event for outsourced workers. Outsourced workers are the forgotten heroes who keep the country going. At Our Work Matters: Outsourced Workers Connect, workplace union reps and members who are outsourced and work in facilities management roles* in the public sector will come together to discuss the issues facing their colleagues and workplaces, and how to run […]
Taking place annually, the Women Chainmakers' Festival is a family friendly event bringing alive memories of the past whilst inspiring visions for the future through street theatre, re-enactments, live metalworking, political stalls and speeches, music, children’s activities and entertainment. Featuring national entertainers and speakers, including a ‘Mary Macarthur’ in period costume delivering one of Mary’s rousing speeches and a procession […]
Across the globe, 2024 is a time of change. With the backdrop of declining membership and lower bargaining density, unions are grappling with the introduction of AI, continuing development of digital technologies as well as the challenges of political transition and engagement. Now, as ever, unions and union centres are looking at how we develop ourselves as organisations to address […]
Join the Mayor of Greater Manchester in an online conversation with the #Labour4PR campaign. Two years ago, Andy Burnham spoke to the #Labour4PR campaign about his support for Proportional Representation and radical democratic reform. Since then Constituency Labour Parties, affiliated trade unions, and the Labour Party Conference have all overwhelmingly backed electoral reform - and Labour's official policy has recognised […]
Strategic Planning Residential - Bringing it back to our unions - Deepening engagement - Building an action plan (at work and in the wider movement) - Patrols and campaigning
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Grace Blakeley, acclaimed author of 'Vulture Capitalism,' will join Matt Willgress of Arise - A Festival of Left Ideas to discuss "How can theories of imperialism & state-monopoly capitalism help us understand the crisis today?" In today's world - riven by crisis, inequality & war - is it worth returning to the classic theories of Lenin, Bukharin, Luxemburg, Hilferding & others about […]
Come along to the monthly MVMBristol street stall. Location – different each month! To get involved / for more details please get in touch via: bristolmakevotesmatter@gmail.com
A festival organised by the People's History Association of North Staffordshire and supported by North Staffs TUC honouring the Chartist radicals of 1842 and the 'Potteries Peterloo' which saw Josiah Heapy shot by soldiers many more injured and 142 people arrested with 54 transported to Australia. A family friendly day, the event will have stalls, music, poetry, speeches and food.
