Marxist Left Review #20 : Rebel Unions Past and Present

Issue 20 of the Marxist Left Review focuses on the place of unions in the class struggle: with pieces on the high-points of radical unionism, relations between syndicalists and the communist left, and the struggle against conservative officials going on as we speak.

The full list of articles is:

• The NSW BLF: The battle to tame the concrete jungle by Mick Armstrong
• NTEU Fightback: Rank and file rebellion in a most unlikely union by Diane Fieldes and Jordan Humphries
• The real iron ladies: Women in the 1984/85 British Miners Strike by Janey Stone
• The Comintern's encounter with syndicalism by Ian Birchall
• The freedom to be: Marxism, gender oppression and the struggle for trans liberation by April Holcombe
• Choosing between life and capital in Latin America by Jeffery R. Webber
• Review: Resistance to the Accord by Jack Crawford
• Review: The robbery of nature by Kate Doherty
• Review: Occupation and resistance in West Papua by Sam Pietsch