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the labour movement (UK)top
 

The Labour Party

This is the official "New Labour" web site... however it's far more interesting checking out the web sites set up by various LP Constituencies, DLP's, Student Labour Clubs and campaigns. And of course "New Labour" wouldn't stoop so low as to link to ward or CLP web sites... So as a service to the movement LLB brings you one of the most comprehensive set of Labour Party links. If you know of any LP web sites that are missing please get in touch. If you want to be amused why not check out the hacked version of the LP web site that was put up a while ago; the hacked LP site. Or if you are interested in a growing list of broken promises then check out the LabourWatch site. If the crap from "New Labour" is just too depressing for you then try the The Totally Unofficial Michael Portillo Fan Page.

Ward Labour Parties

  • Chapel Allerton, the home of "NOT the Chapel Allerton Labour Party Newsletter", Chapel Allerton is a ward in Leeds N.E. a CLP that really knows what "New Labour" means for democracy for the grassroots of the LP. Visit this site for news of the continuing suspension of Leeds N.E. CLP.
  • Deane-Cum-Heaton  I don't know what the politics of this ward are like but it's a great site — every ward should have one like this!
  • Worth Valley  NEW!

Constituency Labour Parties

District Labour Parties

Labour Groups

MP's and MEP's

  • EPLP  NEW!  European Parliamentary Labour Party. Very boring, but it's kept upto date — Ken Coates and Hugh Kerr were removed on the on the day they were expelled...
  • Alex Falconer MEP  a great site, home of the Citizen.

Young Labour

University Labour Clubs

International

Labour Party

Labour Party campaigns and pressure groups

The Campaign for Socialism
Labour Reform
  • LCC  Labour Co-ordinating Committee, very much "New Labour", but perhaps they are not all Blairite zombies — they do have a link to LLB!
  • Scottish Labour Action
  • Labour Campaign for a Scottish Parliament
  • Labour Friends of Israel
  • Oxford University Fabian Society
  • Tonbridge & Tunbridge Wells Fabian Society, nowhere near as right wing as you might expect, this site has a red flag and link to LLB!
  • Sheffield Socialist Campaign Group
  • LabourWatch  Since May 1st the new Labour government has tried its hardest to be completely indistinguishable from the previous Conservative one. This is what LabourWatch is about. It is an attempt by one 'old' Labour supporter to keep a tally on the ways that the 'new' Labour goverment is being a disappointment.
  • Tribune  NEW!  Tribune is the only nationally available weekly newspaper that supports the Labour Party. Packed with all the political news and views from Labour and the trade unions, Tribune covers the issues that matter to the Left in Britain and abroad. Labour MPs and other leading Labour movement figures have regular columns in Tribune, including Tony Benn, Robin Cook, Diane Abbott, Bill Morris, Ken Livingstone, John Edmonds and Dennis Skinner. This site only has subscription information on it, no articles :-(
LCC

 

trade unions congresses, federations and councils

  • TUC  The British Trades Union Congress
  • GFTU  The General Federation of Trade Unions
  • STUC  The Scottish Trade Union Congress, well worth a visit, this site includes international labour news taken from labour on-line discussion lists such as Labour-L and Labour-D and STUC press statements 9thought the frames are a bit of a pain!).
  • Cambridge Trade Union Council
  • ETUC  Edinburgh Trade Union Council has one of the better trade union sites - it has their newsletter, Scottish and Edinburgh Trade Union News on-line, and it's very good!
  • Brimingham Trades Union Council  NEW!  new to the web and a promising start
  • Cambridge Trade Union Council
TUC

trade unions

  • AEEU  Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union
AEEU
  • ASLEF  Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Fireman
    • Branches:
      • Kings Cross  ASLEF Branch has some great pictures of their banners going back 40 years.
  • ATL  Association of Teachers and Lecturers
ATL
AUT
  • BECTU  Brodcasting Entertainment Cinematography and theatre Union
BECTU
CWU
  • FDA  The Association of First Division Civil Servants
  • GMB  The General and Muncipal and Boilermakers Union
GMB
GPMU
TUC
  • NASUWT  The National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers
TUC
  • NUJ  The National Union of Journalists
NUJ
  • OILC  NEW!  Offshore Industry Liaison Committee, the only independant offshore union in Britain.
OILC
  • PTC  The Public Services, Tax and Commerce Union
PTC
  • STE  Society of Telecom Executives
TGWU
UNISON

UNISON

  • USDAW   The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
  • URTU  The United Road Transport Union
URTU
 

labour movement organisations and campaigns

  • LRD   Labour Research Department
LRD
GCHQ trade unions
 

the international labour movementtop
 
  • LaborNet is the sister organisation of the UK's LabourNet and it has been going far longer and is a very useful resource for activists, especially it's Unions and Organizations on the Information Superhighway page.
  • The US Labor Party  was established at a very well attended convention in Cleaveland last year, the trade union based, Labor Party represents one of the most important political developments for the global working class for decades. Although it's early days and the Labor Party has a huge task - to do to the Democarats what the British Labour Party did to the Liberals at the beginning of the century - there is every reason to be optimistic about it's future. The Labor Party site is therefore a must visit site - check it out now!
LaborNet
AFL-CIO
  • KCTU  Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the only democratic labour union in Korea, representing over 1,200 unions and about 500,000 workers
  • KPNews  NEW!  Korea Progress News, including news from the Korea trade unions movement.
  • Solidarity with Korea's Labour Movement  NEW!  The first website outside of Korea devoted exclusively to the struggle of Korea's independent democratic trade union movement. Includes links to many Korean sites, up to date information, and suggestions for action. Part of Eric Lee's The Labour Movement & Internet website.
  • ETUC  the European Trade Union Confederation
  • COSATU  the South African trade union federation
  • Labour and Trade Union Page this Australian page has great links
  • NUM  the South African National Union of Mineworkers
  • NEHAWU  South Africian National Education Health and Allied Workers Union
  • Kommunal  Swedish Municipal Workers Union, information in english.
  • Sugar Worker / Trabajador Azucarero - ICCSASW  "is an international sugar workers' network devoted to the research and analysis of the most important developments in the sugar industry as they affect the workers, and their working and living conditions around the world"
KCTU
  • The Strike Page carries information on strikes.
  • USWA Locals 12775 & 13796  the "Unofficial" Homepage for USWA Locals 12775 & 13796 who represent the 2,100 physical and 600 clerical employees of Northern Indiana Public Service Company.
  • The Nevada Labor Pages  news from the Nevada labour movement
  • TDU  the Teamsters for a Democratic Union Home Page is one of the best sites that a rank and file campaign within a union put together.
  • Detroit Council of Newspaper Unions  visit this site for the latest news of the long running Detroit newspaper strike.
  • CRC  Labor Organizations Directory
  • CGIL  Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro - The General Confederation of Italian Workers
  • Jobs With Justice (US)  "...a national labor, community and religious coalition dedicated to fight for the rights of working people"
  • IFWEA  International Federation Workers Education Association
  • ILO  International Labour Organisation, the UN's labour organisation
  • IWW  Industrial Workers of the World
  • The Labour Movement and the Internet: The Web Site  an excellent site which expands on Eric Lee's book. His book has been reviewed by LLB and LLB has been made a "labour movement web site of the week" on this site.
  • Campaign for Labor Rights Home Page
  • IFJ  International Federation of Journalists is the world's largest organisation of journalists. The Federation represents more than 400,000 members in over 90 countries.
  • KTV  Finland's trade union for the municipal sector, the biggest trade union in the country, with information in english
  • OPSEU  NEW!  Ontario Public Service Employees Union
  • IG Medien Web  NEW!  homepage of Industriegewerkschaft Medien, Druck und Papier, Publizistik und Kunst.
  • The Samuel Gompers Papers  NEW!  This site offers documents, illustrations and information about the history of trade unionism in the United States.
  • CEPU , Electrical Division, Queensland  NEW!  covering cover employees involved in Electrical, Electronic and Communications work and associated Industries. And representing skilled and unskilled workers in Manufacturing, Mining and Transportation industries.
  • USWA Locals 12775 & 13796  NEW!  "Unofficial" Homepage, for the education of our local union members. It was however, very instrumental in encouraging our employer to sign a contract recently after five months of negotiating against the employers "last, best, final offer".
  • Independent Education Union of Australia  NEW!  The Independent Education Union of Australia (IEU) is the federally registered union representing all education employees working in non-government schools and institutions.
  • Michigan State Utility Workers Council  NEW!  The latest news on utility deregulation, organizing, safety, and much more.
  • CompoNet  NEW!  Interactive Web Site For Injured Workers and Employers Specific to Workers' Compensation Issues.
  • Community Labor News Forum  NEW!
  • Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Local 839 IATSE Web Page  NEW!  The labor union for screen cartoonists and CGI artists and technicians in Southern California.
  • LAMP  NEW!  The Labor Art & Mural Project (LAMP,) maintains an email list for cultural workers, artists and activists. The list also functions on behalf of the Cultural Workers and Artists Caucus (CWAC,) of the US Labor Party.
  • Healthcare Workers Union Local 250, SEIU, based in Oakland, CA  NEW!  Local 250 is the largest local union in California. SEIU Local 250 represents over 40,000 healthcare workers in the state and is one of the fastest growing local unions in one of the fastest growing International unions, SEIU, AFL-CIO-CLC.
  • National Association of Letter Carriers - Region 14 - Paul Daniels, NBA  NEW!
  • COURAGE  NEW! Confederation for Unity, Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees in the Philippines.
  • ICFTU-APRO  NEW!  International Confederation of Free Trade Unions - Asian and Pacific Regional Organisation — representing over 32 million workers through 41 affiliated trade union national centers in 29 countries in the Asia and Pacific Region. This site includes ICFTU-APRO Labour Flash  — a newsletter, that provides the gist of the up-to-date news related to the developments of trade union movement including, among other things, trade union rights issues, labour legislation, economic trend and gender and child labour issues in the Asian and Pacific Region.
Strike Page

socialists, communists and revolutionariestop
 
  • The Morning Star has a new and impressive web site with many of the feature articles promptly posted up
Morning Star
Red Pepper

campaigns and pressure groupstop
 
  • Free Róisín McAliskey!  visit this site for the latest news about Róisín. LLB coverage of Róisín's case includes Release Roisin McAliskey!.
  • An Phoblacht/Republican News
  • Scottish CND
  • Scotland Against Nuclear Dumping
  • London Health Emergency
  • Sans Papiers  The Undocumented Africans "of St. Ambroise"
  • The Cuba Solidarity Campaign  is the British campaign for the defence of Cuba and its peoples' right to self-determination and national sovereignty.
  • Let Cuba be Cuba!  report of a a 2 week labour tour of Cuba by members of CUPE.
  • Anti-Fascist Action - Rotterdam  NEW!  check out this site for the latest news on the Dutch anti-fascist's front.
  • UNHAV  NEW!  Campaign to asssist all those cheated of demutualisation shares upon conversion of The Halifax Building Society into a bank, Halifax plc: elderly and disabled in care, 2nd named in joint accounts, under-18's, heirs, ex-pats including Armed Forces overseas.
  • NCADC  NEW!  the National Coalition of Anti-deportation Campaigns provides an unrivaled round up of all those fighting for asylum and residency rights in Britain.
  • Cage Progressive  NEW!  aiming to provide you a with a onestop interactive resource for progressive Political and Educational resources and community.
  • CARF  NEW!  Campaign Against Racism and Fascism, CARF is an British independent anti-racist magazine, documenting resistance against racism — from black and refugee organisations, monitoring groups, anti-deportation campaigns, football fans, and much more.
  • AFA  NEW!  Anti Fascist Action (UK) is an organisation that was set up to "physically and ideologically" confront the fascists. They believe that fascists should be prevented from organising and peddling their lies and hatred by any means necessary.
  • Searchlight  NEW!  Searchlight's aim is to combat racism, neo-nazism, fascism and all forms of prejudice. Searchlight (UK) is a non-sectarian organisation in political, ethnic and religious terms. It believes in achieving the broadest possible unity in the fight against racism, neo-nazism, fascism and prejudice.
  • lesbian.org  NEW!  lesbian.org is dedicated to promoting lesbian visibility on the internet, and to providing resources and information for cyberdykes everywhere.

radical mediatop
 
  • Free Speech TV  if you have a fast internet connection then this site is great (in fact it's the best reason to get yourself an ISDN connection I've come accross!), there are hundreds of RealVideo and VDOlive programes that you can watch that have been produced by activists from around the world.
  • UnderCurrents  are a UK based environemental activists group who's video's are carried by FStv, including a RealVideo report from the 1995 Labour Party conference, look chum!.
  • Labor Video Project  is based in San Fransisco and produces excellent labour movement videos.
  • Report digital  Report Digital brings together a collection of social and political issue-based photographs taken by a small group of photographers who have been covering the British political scene for the past 20 years. Whilst not an agency, digital technology allows us to collaborate in distributing our current and archive photographs to a wider range of publications.
  • Green Left Weekly  Australia's leading alternative newspaper, providing local, national and international news, analysis and discussion on a wide range of issues.
  • LBO  Left Business Observer
  • ZNet  NEW!  ZNet is a community of people concerned about social change and eager to learn from, enjoy, and work with one another. It is an interactive home base for progressives, a launch pad for research and study, and an interactive center for exchanging information, developing ideas, and jointly pursuing shared agendas. ZNet includes robust educational offerings, socially responsible internet guides, audio and publishing functionality and archives, socializing facilities, Z Magazine article archives and search engines, activism updates and campaigns, research tools, and especially interactive forums including, among their regular participants, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael Albert, Katha Pollitt, and Howard Zinn.
  • WorkingTV  NEW!  working TV is a labour television program broadcast weekly on community access television in the province of British Columbia, Canada.
  • Left Curve  NEW!  is an artist-produced critical magazine that addresses the problem(s) of cultural forms emerging from the crises of modernity that strive to be independent from the control of dominant institutions and free from the shackles of instrumental rationality. Our orientation is premised on the recognition of the destructiveness of commodity systems to all life, and the need to build a culture that could potentially create a more harmonious relationship among people, and between the human and natural world.
  • New World Media  NEW!  seeks to build a digital infrastructure for global social transformation and information sharing. Home of the Noam Chomsky archive.

protest songs and socialist musictop
 
  • Hard Miles Music  NEW!  is devoted to restoring folk music and art to their rightful status within the labor movement. Featuring some really great music (in RealAudio format) and an art gallery from the front lines of today's labor movement.
  • Sheffield Socialist Choir  NEW!  we learn and sing songs which reflect the fight for freedom, human rights and justice around the world.

academic sites and librariestop
 
  • IISH  The International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, was founded in 1935. It is one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history in general and the history of the labour movement in particular. On its site http://www.iisg.nl you can find the online-catalogue, the virtual library of labour and business history, an international newsletter and a massive set of socialist and labour movement links.
  • UK Political Studies Association Labour Movements Group  NEW!  Website of the UK Political Studies Association's specialist Labour Movements Group. Gives details of the group, activities, email discussion list, and links.
  • RRojas Databank  NEW!  Notes on the political economy of developing societies.
  • TUC Library  NEW!  the Trades Union Congress' Library Collections.
  • Centre for Trade Union Studies at the University of North London  NEW!  the Centre offers, higher education courses especially designed for trade unionists, short courses for individual unions, research and consultancy for trade unions.

newsgroups and e-mail liststop
 
Directories of newsgroups, e-mail lists and web forums USENET newsgroups e-mail lists
  • Union-d is a european based trade union discussion mailing list aimed principally but not exclusively at the European Trade Union movement. The list aims to promote online dialogue, information sharing and organisation between active trade unionists who have access to an internet email box. To join the Union-d you simply send a message to listserv@wolfnet.com with the words SUBSCRIBE UNION-D followed by your email address as the only text in the message.
  • labor-l is a well established international labour movement list with more than 400 subscribers run by a Professor at York University in Toronto. To join send a e-mail to listserv@yorku.ca with the words "subscribe labor-l firstname lastname" as the only text in the message.
  • There is a (unofficial) discussion list for supporters of the US Labor Party which you can join by sending a message to majordomo@igc.apc.org with the subject line blank and "subscribe labor-party" in the body of the message.
  • The Spoon Marxism Space collective has several new lists operating in the marxism space. They include:, marxism-and-sciences, marxism-feminism, marxism-general, marxism-international, marxism-intro, marxism-news, marxism-psych and marxism-thaxis. To subscribe to any one of these lists, please send a message to majordomo@lists.village.virginia.edu with the text "subscribe" in the body of the message.
  • International Viewpoint has a list which is used to send out articles prior to publication, to join the list e-mail Majordomo@mail.comlink.apc.org with "subscribe fi-press-l" and then your own e-mail address in the body of your message.
Trotsky

socialist and progressive links sitestop
 
 
 

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updated on 22 January 1998

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