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workers.org.uk is the website of the Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist. You can read extracts from our monthly magazine, WORKERS, download the current issue, subscribe, and find out about the Party by selecting from the menu items to the left. We hope you find it interesting!
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As part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of the CPBM-L, this pamphlet publishes – for the first time – an analysis of the British trade unions by founding Party Chairman Reg Birch. Available now, price £3 including p&p, from Bellman Books, 78 Seymour Avenue, London N17 9EB. Please make cheques payable to "WORKERS". Alternatively pay online
In Britain, the trade unions were created, uniquely, as "weapons of a working class". They were an "organic coming together of a class out of the conflict of class relationship" – a necessary tool for survival, built for defence not attack, against the employer in an economic system based on class exploitation.
This is the starting point for this speech , given by Reg Birch in 1982, which goes on to outline the history of our trade unions – tracing them back to at least the 14th century – and to analyse their development, peculiar to Britain.
The CPBM-L is re-issuing the text of this important speech by its founding Chairman, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Party, not as an academic exercise or a historic curiosity, but because Reg Birch's analysis raised important questions for us today.
Read it, consider it, and discuss it with your fellow workers.
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The will of the British people has been clearly expressed in opinion poll after opinion poll. Now it is time for a poll of a different kind, a referendum. The TUC is already trying to renege on its September vote for a referendum. Don't let power slide over to Brussels.
FIGHT BACK with a Referendum Now badge (actual size, 25mm), available from Bellman Books, 78 Seymour Avenue, London N17 8EB, price 50p each, or £4 for 10. Please make cheques payable to "WORKERS".
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