Cuts, trade unions and the movement

Coalition of Resistance supporters: London, 30 November

This is the second of four brief selections of my writing published on Luna17 and Counterfire this year.

Austerity has been (and continues to be) the dominant domestic political issue. Most of these posts concern, in different ways, the opposition to cuts: from contradictions in the unions to the case for European co-ordination. A number of arguments about politics and tactics in the movement will undoubtedly become even more important in 2012.

Politics and tactics in UK Uncut (January)

Can trade unions stop the cuts?  (April)

Trade union membership and the working class today (May)

Ed Balls and public sector pensions  (June)

Europe Against Austerity - a call for co-ordinated global resistance (October)

Beyond #N30 - co ordinate resistance across Europe (December) 

Also see Part 1 of this round-up: An extraordinary year in the Arab world

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