Tag Archives: Solfed
Ryanair rip off
Building on the success of their Office Angels campaign Solidarity Federation have began working with the ‘Ryanair Don’t Care’ campaign to highlight the ruthless employment practices of the profitable budget airline.
Anti-cuts forum: Freedom bookshop tonight!
Image: courtesy Urban75 Anti-Cuts Forum Thursday 21st July • 7pm Freedom Bookshop Angel Alley 84b Whitechapel High St London E1 7QX MAP » Anarchist Federation (London) » Solidarity Federation (North London) All welcome!
Round up of anarchist activity
The London group of the Anarchist Federation have now held two successful meetings on the cuts. The first meeting was held at Freedom Bookshop on the Thursday after March 26th and there was a lively discussion with 30 people participating (two of whom turned out to be Times journalists and wrote a shock-horror story in [...]
National Days of Action
Radical groups get upfront and active The week of 9-15th May saw not one but two national weeks of action organised by radical groups against companies involved in direct attacks on ordinary working class people. Solidarity Federation (Solfed) led a week long campaign against Office Angels, the agency that provides office temping work, after they [...]
Solfed’s national gathering
Mayday weekend saw the Solidarity Federation’s National Conference come to Brighton. The annual conference is the most important decision-making event in the SolFed calendar, serving to make federation-wide decisions, mandate and hear reports from national officers and commissions and to share ideas and tactics. Delegates from Brighton, Liverpool, Manchester, Northampton, North London, South London, Thames [...]
National Week of Action against Office Angels (9-15 May)
Since March the Solidarity Federation (SF) has been involved in supporting a victimised former Office Angels temporary worker. Dan worked for Office Angels for three days in December of last year. He was assured by the company that the lack of a time-sheet would ‘not be a problem’. However, Office Angels are refusing to pay [...]
Solfed’s Office Angels campaign
Since March Solidarity Federation having been involved in a campaign of action against Office Angels, a recruitment agency specialising in short term temporary office placements, after an ex-employee asked for their assistance over a pay dispute. The person in question was assured by the company that the lack of a time-sheet would ‘not be a [...]
Not the royal wedding party
The squatted Social Centre Plus in Deptford South London celebrated its successful resistance to an attempted eviction by having an anti-monarchy street party the day of the royal wedding. Some 500 people turned up to the roof party which was held throughout the day with music, food and dancing followed by an evening of riotous [...]
Social Centre resist eviction
Anti-cuts activists defy bailiffs and keep open Anarchists, Anti-cuts activists, and community campaigners who occupied a disused job centre in south London successfully resisted an attempt to evict them early on Tuesday morning 12th April. Over 60 people gathered outside the squatted building renamed Social Centre Plus (SCP) on Deptford High Street, linking arms and [...]
North London Solfed’s response to the London riots
With media sources blaming “anarchy” for the unfolding violence in London and across England, the North London Solidarity Federation felt a response from an anarchist organisation active in the capital would be appropriate.