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  1. Marketing Trade Unions - a Manual by Allen Pascoe
  2. Grupo Intersindical Iberoamericano de Telefónica new Spanish and Latin American telecom trade union alliance (en español, and English)
  3. Ameritech Unions call International Day of Action for 24 June 1998
  4. CWU General Secretary Election Results

  5. What are Interest-Based Negotiations? New Zealand trade unionist Allen Pascoe explains what they are and why we should be interested in them.
  6. Monopoly and Competition in British Telecommunications by John Harper. The former Director of BT's Inland Division defends the record of publicly owned telecommunications. Reproduced with permission from his recent book.
  7. Communications International calls for week of Solidarity Protest Flood Critchley with protests week commencing 2 February 1998. Model protest letter and Critchley addresses, e-mail and fax details are included.
  8. The Critchley Solidarity Page
  9. Photographs from the Critchley Labels Dispute
    - now with THUMBNAILS for speedy download
  10. El Salvador - Urgent Action - protest at sackings of telephone company union activists (a Communications International link)
  11. Teleworkers - time to get organised! (with useful links)
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  12. Photographs from the Critchley Labels Dispute
  13. La privatisation partielle de France Telecom par Cristophe Aguiton, Solidaires Unitaires Democratiques (SUD)
  14. The Partial Privatisation of France Telecom by Cristophe Aguiton, Solidaires Unitaires Democratiques (SUD)
  15. Puerto Ricans Stop Work to March Against Telephone Company Privatisation by Jose B Davilas (a LabourNet link)
  16. Annan Proposes Dec. 7, 1998 for Western Sahara Vote
  17. Critchley Strikers - March and Rally, Cardiff, 1st November 1997
  18. PARTICIPACION DE TELEFONICA EN LATINOAMERICA por Abel Perea Ballesteros, UGT de España
  19. Telefonica's Involvement in Latin America by Abel Perea Ballesteros, UGT (Spanish General Workers Union) 6 September 1997
  20. ALIANZAS EN LATINOAMERICA por Abel Perea Ballesteros, UGT de España
  21. Telecommunications Alliances in Latin America by Abel Perea Ballesteros, UGT (Spanish General Workers Union) 6 September 1997
  22. Critchley Strikers - Register Your Support - Electronic Pickets Required
  23. Mauritius Telecom Workers Oppose Privatisation - background briefing (uploaded 4 June 1997)
  24. Trekking in Suffolk's future world - interview with BT Labs' Peter Cochrane by Eddie Barrett and first published in Voice, monthly journal of the CWU, May 1997
  25. President's Address to CWU Conference - 18 May 1997
  26. Communications Workers of America Urge International Disney Protest
  27. Critchley Group on the Slide by Alan Harley. Uploaded 15 May 1997
  28. Support the Critchley 31 - background briefing by the CWU. Uploaded 15 May 1997
  29. Critchley Workers Need Your Support (March and Rally in Nottingham) Uploaded 12 May 1997
  30. Cheers and Tears for Critchley Strikers by Eddie Barrett, first published in published in Voice, monthly journal of the CWU, April 1997
  31. Internet Support for Critchley Strikers - April 1997
  32. "Striking Critchley Workers Sacked" March and Rally in Newport, Saturday 8 March
  33. "BT's Long Awaited Grading Proposals.......".... are still long awaited.... (published in Voice, monthly journal of the CWU, February, 1997 )
  34. "Strike at Critchley as Union Is Banned" by Chris Proctor, CWU Communications (published in Trade Union Review February 1997)
  35. "Return of the Job Killers" - and we thought we knew the meaning of 'convergence'.... (published in May/June, 1996, Scottish Trade Union Review )
  36. "Communications, Computing and Broadcasting" - Digits and Jobs: a severe case of compression (published March/April, 1996, Trade Union News)
  37. "Organising on The Internet!" - threats and challenges facing telecommunications workers, and some new(?) organising ideas (published in February/March, 1996, Focus - magazine of the Communications Workers Union )
  38. "Wired, Weird and Wonderful - Thomas Paine and the Internet" - some thoughts following an article in WIRED magazine (published in Focus, (CWU) and Scottish Trade Union Review, 1995)
  39. "The War in the Sahara" - background briefing to the war in Western Sahara between the occupying Moroccan forces and Polisario, the liberation movement of the indigenous Saharawi people (first published by TUCND in Peace and Society, November, 1993)
  40. "Torture in Morocco's Secret Prisons" - based on an interview with a survivor

    Hotlinks to articles on Donald MacDonald's Personal Home Page

  41. Mountaineering articles, with climbing hotlinks
  42. Abdullah Ibrahim in Glasgow - comments based on a performance by the great South African musician (with hotlinks to other Abdullah Ibrahim and jazz sites)


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