Archive for January 12th, 2016
Can unions smash the straitjacket on strikes?
Posted by John, January 12th, 2016 - under Penal powers, Strikes.
Tags: Clarrie O'Shea
Comments: 2
If left union leaders are serious about defending their members, themselves, and their position then the general strike in 1969 to free Clarrie O’Shea and smash the penal powers shows a real way to win the right to strike. Union members could begin to organise in their unions now to run any campaign to smash the modern day equivalent of the penal powers.
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A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London, by Dylan Thomas
Posted by John, January 12th, 2016 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Death, Dylan Thomas
Comments: none
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London Dylan Thomas, 1914 – 1953 Never until the mankind making Bird beast and flower Fathering and all humbling darkness Tells with silence the last light breaking And the still hour Is come of the sea tumbling in harness And I must enter […]