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A Manual of Industrial Unionism
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- The life and work of William Z. Foster illustrates how mutually reinforcing is the interdependent struggles to develop both class consciousness and class organisation and political consciousness and political organisation. He brought to his Manual of Industrial Organisation an enormously wide experience of different industries and of organising approaches. His work is informed by a deep practicality and a clear sense of…
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Beyond the Blockade: Education in Cuba
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- Cuba’s education system as seen by dozens of British teachers in a series of study tours to the socialist island. AUTHOR BIO Edited by Gawain little, Malcolm Richards, Aretha Green and Phil Yeeles. Forewords by Kevin Courtney joint general secretary National Education Union and Niurka Maria González general secretary SNTECD Cuba.
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Bold Riot
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Book Bundle 1
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- Get both ‘The Commonwealth of Britain’ and ‘The Cost of Living Crisis’ for £12, saving £2.99 over our regular prices, when bought individually. To see more details and reviews, click on each book in the shop. Free Postage
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Book Bundle 2
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- Get both ‘Lessons in Organising’ and ‘The Cost of Living Crisis’ for £15, saving £3.50 over our regular prices, when bought individually. To see more details and reviews, click on each book in the shop. Free Postage
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But My Fist is Free
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Class Writer
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GFTU Badge
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- The GFTU's brand-new logo goes back to our founding roots. Get your GFTU 125th anniversary pin, which highlights our founding principles education, solidarity, unity.
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GFTU Badge – The Will to Win
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GFTU BGCM Badge
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- Marking the 106th Biennial General Council Meeting of the GFTU. Class - Culture - Community
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GFTU President’s Badge – John Fray 2013-2015
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GFTU President’s Badge – John Smith 2017-2019
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GFTU President’s Badge – Oshor Williams 2019-2021
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- This badge was designed by AUE Co-Chair Zita Holbourne. Free Postage
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GFTU T-Shirt
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- 2024 marks our 125th anniversary. Get your anniversary T-shirt which highlights are founding principles education, solidarity, unity. Please note: Our small size option is currently out of stock. S M L XL 2XL Chest size (inches) 36-38 38-40 40-42 42-44 44-46 Width cm 102 108 114 120 126 Length cm 70.5 73 75.5 78 80.5
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GFTU Tote Bag
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- For all your shopping needs, get yourself down your local supermarket with our anniversary tote bag. Show off our founding principles education, solidarity and unity.
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GFTUET Educational Trust Pin
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Glass Bottle Makers
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- The National Glass Bottle Makers’ Society was a trade union representing workers involved in the manufacture of glass bottles in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in Leeds in 1903 as a split from the National Flint Glass Makers’ Society of Great Britain and Ireland. It affiliated to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), at which time it was led…
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Heroes in the Evening Mist
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His Hands Were Gentle
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- Víctor Jara (1932-73) was a legendary Chilean singer, songwriter, guitarist and theatre director. A leader of the New Song Movement, in the aftermath of the military coup of 1973, Jara was arrested, imprisoned and executed. His Hands Were Gentle brings together, for the first time in both Spanish and English, the best of Víctor Jara’s lyrics, from early songs like ‘El arado’…
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Iron Moulders
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- The Associated Iron Moulders of Scotland (AIMS) was a trade union representing foundry workers in Scotland. The union was created in 1831 as the Scottish Iron Moulders’ Union. Its founder was James Dunn, a former cotton worker who had been blacklisted for trade union activities in his own trade. He spotted a gap produced by the failure of the Scottish…
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James Connolly & The Re-Conquest of Ireland
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- James Connolly was an Irish republican, socialist, and trade union leader. Born to Irish parents in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, Connolly left school for working life at the age of 11, and became involved in socialist politics in the 1880s. Although mainly known for his position in Irish socialist and republican politics, he also took a role in Scottish…
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Lessons in Organising
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- The heart of any trade union is its reps and activists organising in the workplace. After years of membership decline across sectors, a renewed recognition of this essential fact is behind the ‘turn to organising’ in the union movement today. This turn to collective organising builds strength at a local as well as a national level, and also aids in…
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Life and Times of Pete Curran
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London Recruits
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- The history of the antiapartheid movement brings up images of boycotts and public campaigns in the UK, but another story went on behind the scenes, in secret. This is the story of the foreign volunteers and their activities in South Africa, how they acted in defiance of the apartheid government and its police on the instructions of the African National…
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Lugalbanda – Lover of the Seed
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- Beautifully designed, printed and written with some stimulating discussion notes, this book is a fund-raiser for the Free Ocalan campaign. It brings to the attention of a modern readers a poem written 5,000 years ago but still with incredible relevance to us today. The imprisoned political leader Abdullah Ocalan draws attention to the first Sumerian civilization built between the Tigris…
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Maduro: A decade of continuing Chávez’s socialist anti-imperialist struggle
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- Venezuela Solidarity Campaign Secretary and Latin American expert Francisco Dominguez looks at the progress Venezuela has made under a decade of Maduro’s leadership. Free Postage
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Megabundle
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- Make sure you have it all with our 'Megabundle'. This includes both our pins, drinks mats, mug, t-shirt, and tote bag. Please note: Our small size option is currently out of stock. T-shirt Size S M L XL 2XL Chest size (inches) 36-38 38-40 40-42 42-44 44-46 Width cm 102 108 114 120 126 Length cm 70.5 73 75.5 78…
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My Life’s Battles
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National Association of Operative Plasterers
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- The National Association of Operative Plasterers (NAOP) was a trade union representing plasterers in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1860 and regarded itself as an amalgamation of three local societies. It immediately attracted a high membership for a union of the time, having 4,802 members in 1866, and although this fell to 2,400 by the end of…
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Our Trade Unions, What Comes Next After The Summer Of 2022?
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- Nigel Flanagan brings to the question of organising a sharp and critical analysis of the problems thrown up in the new world of work. The hot summer of 2022 anticipated an even hotter autumn. Railway workers, post and telecom staff, train drivers, teachers, health workers, higher education staff all took their place in a wave of strike ballots and –…
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Rise Like Lions
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- About the Author William Ash was born in Texas but fought as a Spitfire pilot in the Second World War before spending three years in a German prisoner-of-war camp. His repeated attempts to escape made him one of the models for the character played by Steve McQueen in the film ‘The Great Escape’, and were chronicled in his bestselling memoir…
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Singing the Changes
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- This book chronicles the songs of Dave Rogers, longstanding member of the Birmingham Banner Theatre. It chronicles 30 years of struggle and marks the Banner Theatre’s 30th Anniversary celebrations. The book is presented as 85 songs of resistance and celebration, spanning over three decades of events. Interspersed between the songs are concise, informative historical accounts of the events themselves recalled…
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Somerset School Cleaners and their trade union, NUPE, 1937 to 1984
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- A former school cleaner who has been a lifelong trade unionist has published a book reflecting on his working-class experiences. Dave Chapple, of Bridgwater Trade Union Congress, has published his book ‘Somerset School Cleaners and their trade union, NUPE, 1937 to 1984’ with “substantial” support from UNISON and the General Federation of Trades Unions. The book charts the author’s time…
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Speaking Tools – Poems 1975 to 2005
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- Poetry: fierce, passionate, tender, political, lyrical and well-crafted. Poetry restored to its place in the struggle for social change. Poetry for poetry addicts and the general reader. Writing within the great tradition of progressive literature from Langland to MacDiarmid,Doug Nicholls restores poetry to its public place and hertage in political and philosophical debate. These poems reflect thirty years of recent…
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Spindle and Flyer Makers
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- The United Operative Spindle and Flyer Makers’ Trade and Friendly Society was founded in 1856 and was one of the longest surviving Unions making textile machines and fittings. In 1860 the Union applied to join the Amalgamated Society of Engineers but was refused on the grounds that its members were not skilled tradesmen. The Union developed independently and reached a…
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Striving For Equality, Freedom and Justice: Embracing Roots, Culture and Identity
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- A collection of poetry, quotes and art by award winning and inspiring London based poet, artist and activist Zita Holbourne. The book is a journey through struggle and resistance, a story of strength, determination and love used to challenge discrimination and injustice, documenting important historical and current struggles from the Haitian Revolution to the Black Lives Matter Movement. This is…
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The Amalgamated Society of Core Makers
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- The Amalgamated Society of Core Makers of Great Britain and Ireland (ASC) was a trade union representing foundry workers in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1902 by a large number of local unions, with a total membership of less than 1,000. About half the members came from the Manchester and District Coremakers’ Society, the largest of the…
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The Commonwealth of Britain
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- Doug Nicholls was first elected as a trade union General Secretary in 1987 and retired as General Secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions in 2023 as the longest serving union secretary of his generation. This collection celebrates Britain’s red thread of progressive thinking from the early concepts of an egalitarian commonwealth, to the actual first republic, and the…
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The Cost of Living Crisis (and how to get out of it)
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- We are living through a cost of living crisis, with interest rate hikes and the prices of everyday consumables and energy bills sky-rocketing. Why is this happening? Sometimes we are told that wages are too high, or that the government has “printed” too much money, or that events far away, such as the war in Ukraine, are solely to blame.…
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The Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers Union
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- The Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers Union (DWRGLU), often known as the Dockers’ Union, was a British trade union representing dock workers in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1887 as the Tea Operatives and General Labourers’ Association, to organise opposition to a cut in wages for workers involved in unloading and processing tea at the East…
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The Many Not The Few
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- An illustrated history of Britain shaped by the people A union rep and his granddaughter discuss the history of the labour movement, from the 14th century right up to today. Sean Michael Wilson has done a brilliant job assembling his workers’ manifesto, with the stoic assistance of historical advisor Doug Nicholls. Robert Brown’s simple, straightforward no-nonsense black and white art…
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The Tale of Walter the Pencil Man
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- The Tale of Walter the Pencil Man is a collaboration between poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan and several times Cartoonist of the Year Tony Husband. The book tells the story, in six-line rhyming stanzas, of a young lad from a Yorkshire pit village who finds himself caught up in the terrible slaughter of the First World War and records the…
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The United Kingdom Society of Coach Makers
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- The United Kingdom Society of Coachmakers was formed in 1834 by the Liverpool and Manchester Coachmakers’ Societies after they had co-operated during a strike. In 1919 it amalgamated with the London and Provincial Coachmakers’ Society, the Operative Coachmakers and Wheelwrights’ Federal Labour Union, and the London Coachsmiths and Vicemen’s Trade Society to form the National Union of Vehicle Builders. In…
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The Workers’ Committee
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- The Workers’ Committee is classic and important text exploring the incredible organisation of the first Shop Stewards’ Movement in early 20th century Britain. Discussing the development of shopfloor power and how to organise industrially, sectorally and geographically, Murphy’s text holds many ideas important to today’s struggles, including what next for the strike wave and how do we continue to build…
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Three Book Bundle
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- Get a great deal by buying all three of the latest books to arrive in the GFTU online bookshop. Buy all three books and get a £7.49 discount on our regular sale prices. For more details of each book, click on an individual title in the shop. Free Postage
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Trade Union Education
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- Trade union education has been in the doldrums for years – it generally lacks modern teaching methods, has outdated content and avoids key areas of history, economics and politics. This book aims to change all that – to mark out new ground that will bring trade union education back to life. This book has inspired new courses to train people…
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Voice and Vision – Songs of Resistance, Democracy and Peace
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- There is an old and noble tradition in folk music of ordinary people writing and singing about political events and struggles. It’s a strand of folk music which still exists today, even though it sometimes may seem less overt and lost in the flood of mainstream blandness. Voice + Vision: Songs of Resistance, Democracy + Peace, is a co-operative project…
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What’s the Big Idea
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When We Were Almost Like Men
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- When We Were Almost Like Men explores the world of the modern courier industry, the working lives of the men and women caught inside the machinery of the modern city. From controllers to couriers, telephonists to mechanics, supervisors to sales reps, Martin Hayes is a guide to a kind of hell that is simultaneously fascinating, depressing, hopeless and hilarious, exploring…
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Workers’ Play Time
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- Seven Scripts from Seven Struggles Edited by Doug Nicholls There is a rich tradition of theatre dealing with workers’ and trade union struggles through the centuries that can go unacknowledged by the literary mainstream. Often, such plays are staged in alternative venues and too often their scripts are not gathered in any archive and are in danger of being lost.…
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Working River – Songs and Music of the Thames
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- Working River, is the latest album from Folktree Recordings in partnership with General Federation of Trade Unions. The partnership is designed to collect and popularise music and verse, recording the lives and deeds of those who live and work around the Thames – one of the most famous rivers in the world! We have produced 21 tracks to showcase just…
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Yours For The Revolution – The Evolution of Tom Mann’s Political Thought
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- Tom Mann remains Britain’s most accomplished trade unionist but each generation has to rediscover him. With the current union upsurge his time has come round again. Mann’s theory of socialism and class organisation was literally forged in the fiercest and most decisive union battles, extending over a fifty year period. Yet little is known of his activity in the last…
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