Richard Allday

Richard Allday is a member of Unite the Union’s National Executive, a branch secretary and shop steward in road haulage. A member of Counterfire, his comrades know him better as 'the angry trucker'.

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Illustration of workers on strike.

Food for thought: the Bakkavor, Oscar Mayer and Princes Food strikes

Frédéric Legault, Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier and Alain Savard, Ecology for the 99%: Twenty Capitalist Myths Debunked, trans. Charles Simard (Between the Lines 2024), 276pp.

Ecology for the 99%: Twenty Capitalist Myths Debunked – book review

ESNEFT Picket Line. Photo: Lucy Nichols

Our NHS, our fight: March with ESNEFT strikers this Saturday

Striking NHS workers at Colchester Hospital. Photo: Richard Allday

Colchester Hospital strike catches management on the hop

LNER Azuma in Edinburgh Waverley. Photo: E235JREMU / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

Resist the Tories’ anti-union laws

Eileen Turnbull, A Very British Conspiracy: The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice (Verso 2022), 384pp.

A Very British Conspiracy: The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice – book review

1st Feb strike rally in Newcastle | Photo: Alex Snowdon

Fight for the right to strike

Liverpool strikes. Photo: Tayo Aluko

Felixstowe and Liverpool: Workers’ democracy vs. bosses’ autocracy

TUC plaque. Photo: KJP1 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0, license linked below article

The TUC shows its teeth – and they turn out to be dentures

Felixstowe picket line. Photo: Richard Allday

Felixstowe: Strikers shut down UK’s biggest container port

P&O Spirit of France at Dover. Photo: 2013Harry - WikiCommons / cropped from originals / shared under license CC BY-SA 2.5 / license link below

Solidarity with P&O workers: this is a fight for us all

The American Way: Stories of Invasion – book review

Bin lorry. Photo: Jaggery / Geograph / CC BY-SA 2.0, license linked below article

‘The dust’ settles: Plymouth refuse drivers win 12.5% pay rise

Lorries parked at the Stibbington Diner as dusk falls. Photo: Andy F / CC BY-SA 2.0, license linked at bottom of article

Are the wheels coming off the Tories’ wagon?

HGV. Photo: Alan Sansbury / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0, license linked at bottom of article

Driver shortage? What driver shortage?

The Caduca – book review

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