Tag Archives: Direct Action
Sparks occupy Gratte Brothers Head Office
News is emerging that around 60 electricians at Kings Cross have occupied the head office of Gratte Brothers, one of the big six construction companies attempting to push through new contracts, set to be implemented on December 7th, that would reduce wages and deskill the industry and throw out long standing agreed working conditions on [...]
Community action against school closure
Parents from Wishaw, North Lanarkshire vowed to fight on against the impending closure of their local primary school despite being forced to end their occupation after threats by the authorities to send the pupils elsewhere until they left. The five protestors, including four parents and one grandmother, took direct action as part of the Glasgow [...]
Visteon Workers Fight On
Workers at the car part manufacturers who won a momentous battle for redundancy payment from Ford motor giants last year are still locked in a bitter dispute with their ex-employers over money owed through the pension fund after the collapse of Visteon UK. Visteon UK, formerly the main car parts supplier to Ford, went into [...]
COP15: Notes From Below
This December (ten years since the alter-globalisation movements took to the streets of Seattle to oppose the world trade organization) activists from across the globe will be descending on Copenhagen to protest the COP15 round of discussion. Has the UK Direct Action movement changed in the interceding years between these cycles of struggle? And what [...]
Direct Action for Houses
The original article appeared in War Commentary 28th July 1945, written by Colin Ward. A little while ago War Commentary reported the arrest of seven families who had settled in an empty 20-room mansion and a cottage at Blantyre. However the case ended it was, as this paper pointed out, “an indication of the kind [...]