The first of the sessions at this year’s Summer School about The Class Divide (19th – 21st August, in Birmingham) has been announced.
Howard Moss will be speaking on:
The
Class Divide and the Role of Trade Unions
Historically trade unions were voluntary organisations
set up by the working class to enable them to get as good a deal as possible in
selling their skills and energies to employers, while at the same time not having
the aim or ability to transcend the class divide they were (and are) a player
in. But what about circumstances in which workers decide it is not in their
interest to be part of trade unions, as many do these days? Do they lose by
this? And what about ‘political’ trade unionism where unions manage to get
themselves involved not just in trying to protect or improve the pay and
working conditions of their members but instead are used as vehicles for
campaigning for various reforms of capitalism or even for Trotskyist-style
revolution? What should the Socialist attitude be towards such activities by
trade unions?
More sessions will be announced shortly. For more details
about the event, please go here: https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/summer-school-2022/
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