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Ralph Darlington
@ralphdarlington.bsky.social
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Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations, Uni Salford; ‘Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14’ @PlutoPress; researching for a new political biography of the legendary labour leader Tom Mann https://www.salford.ac.uk/our-staff/ralph-darlington
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"We've really lost a huge amount of pay in medicine. The fact we are still a fifth less well off than we were in 2008 I think is a damning indictment of the way many governments have treated public sector workers"

BMA deputy chair @redrunswick.bsky.social
speaks to the BBC ahead of strike action 👇
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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iassc.bsky.social
NEW 🚨| The latest issue of our workers of the world journal is now out.

This issue focuses on the struggle in Palestine 🇵🇸

Read and share here:
workersoftheworld.net

#IASSC #InternationalSolidarity #Palestine
November 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Ok, this is not an easy read given the complexity and unfamiliarity of the processes explored, but if you want some penetrating and deeply alarming insights into how the future is shaping up with AI - here it is!! isj.org.uk/ai-arms-race/
The AI arms race • International Socialism
There are few areas of the global economy where fever dreams of crisis, competition and war are so tightly interwoven as they are in the production of what is misleadingly called Artificial Intelligen...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Solidarity with the resident (formerly known as ‘junior’) doctors as they prepare for battle once again @bma.org.uk

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bma.org.uk The BMA @bma.org.uk · 25d
🚨 Strike action confirmed 🚨

Resident doctors in England will walk out 7am, 14–19 Nov.
We don’t take this step lightly but pay restoration and jobs can’t wait.

🔗 www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign... #PayRestoration #EndTrainingCrisis
CONFIRMED Resident Doctors' Strike 7am on 14 November to 6.59AM ON 19 November
October 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
ralphdarlington.bsky.social
RIP Cleo Lane - one of the great of the greats
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Dame Cleo Laine obituary
Celebrated singer with an agile contralto voice who, with her husband John Dankworth, helped bring new audiences to jazz
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July 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Such an important and vitally needed initiative - get down to this megapicket if you can and show your solidarity with the Birmingham bin strikers @iassc.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @nwlhs.bsky.social @wedemandchangebris.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social
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strikemap.org Strike Map @strikemap.org · Jun 27
🪧Megapicket II🪧

5 sites. One day! Friday 25 July from 6am

🔥Be a part of it: bit.ly/RSVPMegapicketII

📍 Atlas Depot, B11 2AS
📍 Lifford Lane Depot, B30 3JJ
📍 Perry Barr Depot, B42 2TU
📍 Veolia Incinerator, B11 2BA
📍 Ryton site, CV8 3EJ

#StrikeMap

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Promotional poster for a multi-union solidarity strike event titled '5 Sites - One Day' featuring speakers with megaphones and supportive crowd in the background. Event is scheduled for 25 July, starting at 6 AM, with endorsements from BFAWU, FBU, GFTU, PCS, Peace and Justice Project, Strike Map, and We Demand Change.
June 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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iassc.bsky.social
Call for articles 🗣️🔊

Get yourself in our latest workers of the world journal.

Theme of our upcoming issue is 'Education, how, what and for whom?'

🚨Deadline: 15 July 2025

Read more and find out how to submit here: workersoftheworld.net/call-for-articles/

#IASSC
1. Call for articles: submission deadline is July 15. 2. Deadline for article submissions is July 15. 3. Reminder: articles must be submitted by July 15.
May 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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📣Call for articles 📣

Submit your articles for our next issue: Palestine and global resistance to genocide 🇵🇸.

🚨Deadline: 15 May 2025

Read more and find out how to submit here: socialhistoryportal.org/news/article...

#IASSC
Promotional poster titled "Workers of the World, Call for Articles." Features a deadline of 15 May 2025, and topics of interest include worker themes, Palestine, and global resistance to genocide. Submission email is workersoftheworld1848@gmail.com. The poster has a stylized graphic of a person holding a loudspeaker with a globe in the background.
May 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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‘Vocabularies of motive and the 2022-23 strike wave in Britain’,
Professor Sian Moore, Anglia Ruskin University
Manchester Industrial Relations Society Annual Shirley Lerner Lecture Thursday 15 May 6-7.30pm – hybrid event mirs.org.uk
April 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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strikemap.org
NEW 🚨 | Badges for the bin strike.

We have teamed up with Football Lads & Lasses Against Fascism to produce a solidarity pin badge to support the Birmingham Bin Strikers: bit.ly/BirminghamSo...

Help raise £1k for the Brum Bin Strike.

#StrikeMap
April 17, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
Happy Birthday indeed to Tom Mann. A Cov Kid instrumental to the rise of #19thC New Unionism, whose career as a labour organiser saw him agitate across five continents. His statue watches over our exhibition room & his archives give insights into the early labour movement, his life & work.
Black and white photograph of a large, cheering crowd outside Waterloo Station, London. Tom Mann is in there, surrounded. Some members of the crowd are holding up posters about 'Tom Mann's message to Herald readers'. Five photographs from an album compiled by Tom Mann. They show him in later life, visiting sites from his childhood or that were relevant to his family in Coventry. The sites include Foleshill Old Church and the house that he was born in on Grange Road, Foleshill. Front page of May Day 1948 edition of 'The Clarion', magazine published by Coventry Trades Council, in agreement with Humber Joint Shop Stewards' Committee. It includes a portrait of Tom Mann superimposed over a crowd, with the caption ""Tell the Comrades to be of good courage. Go on with the work." Reputed last words of Tom Mann." Photo of the MRC exhibition room, with four glass display cases containing archives and posters on the back wall. A bronze bust of Tom Mann is on a wooden pedestal in the corner.
April 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Happy birthday to the legendary labour agitator and organiser Tom Mann - 1856-1941 @sslh.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social @mrcwarwick.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @jirjournal.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social @redhen90.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Boats have been docked, flights have been cancelled, and schools remain closed as tens of thousands of people take to the streets in Greece in a general strike socialistworker.co.uk/uncategorise...
Strikers in Greece rage at a system that puts profit before human lives
Boats have been docked, flights have been cancelled, and schools remain closed as tens of thousands of people take to the streets in Greece in a general strike.
socialistworker.co.uk
April 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Superb meeting at the Working Class Movement Library last night with indomitable fighters Eileen Turnbull and Terry Renshaw on ‘A Very British Conspiracy: The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice’ - would highly really recommend Eileen’s book @sslh.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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This Thursday evening at the Working Class Movement Library we are hosting an event with the North West Labour History Society, The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice, a talk by Eileen Turnbull. The event is free and open to all from 6.30pm.
A poster advertising the talk by Eileen Turnbull at the Working Class Movement Library at 6.30pm, Thursday 3rd April. The poster shows five people holding a red banner that reads, 'Shrewsbury 24 Campaign. We Won!'
April 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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gftu.org.uk
Museums seek backing to celebrate the centenary of 1926 general strike.

Read more about the #GeneralStrike100 partnership here: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/muse...

#GeneralStrike
Museums seek backing to celebrate the centenary of 1926 general strike
morningstaronline.co.uk
April 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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This wonderful classic text - which includes Hal Draper’s famous pamphlet ‘The Two Souls of Socialism’ - makes the case that genuine liberation can only come from below, from the self-activity of workers and ordinary people @haymarketbooks.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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My favourite art gallery in Manchester, the Whitworth, positively buzzing with people to see this great new exhibition on Women in Revolt - to be recommended
March 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Graphic multidimensional analysis of the highs and lows of Australian trade unionism over the last 60 years in one crucial illustrative industry, with broader implications for all those committed to rebuilding strong and militant trade unionism today @sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Pleased to see my books in good company on the shelves at Warwick University’s library @iassc.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Superb new book that charts a century of activist and mass resistance. Wealth of photos interwoven with firsthand witness accounts alongside analysis by people like Dianne Atkinson. Paul Gilroy, Kate Hudson, Mary Kalder, Gary Younge, Leila Hassan Howe and edited by Steve McQueen
March 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Gramsci meets Tintin
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Now is the time of monsters*
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. Gramsci
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March 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Back to the Modern Records Centre @MRCWarwick at Uni of Warwick this week to further peruse the wonderful Tom Mann collection of correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, publications and photographs @mrcwarwick.bsky.social
@sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Just received my copy of Richard Hyman’s new book - ‘The author who revolutionised the study of industrial relations in the 1970s returns with this….masterful introduction to the past, present + future of employment relations’
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@buiraonline.bsky.social
@keithbeard.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Call for papers on ‘Palestine and global resistance to genocide’ for a forthcoming issue of ‘Workers of the World, journal of the International Association of Strikes and Social Conflicts @iass.bsky.social
See details here:
workersoftheworld.net/call-for-art...
Call for Articles | Workers of the World
Call for Articles Palestine and global resistance to genocide The Workers of the World journal invites submissions for the upcoming themed issue, Palestine, and global resistance to genocide. The dead...
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February 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM