Tag Archives: Solfed
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 [...]
Class war on the streets of London
On March 26th, people assembled to protest and take direct action against the government. Most were marching quite simply because their jobs, their services, and their livelihoods are under attack. This included those of us in anarchist blocs, though we also argued for a much broader perspective and recognition that capitalism itself was the issue, [...]
Two sides of the same coin
Two reports that reflect the diversity of opinion about just who and what the black bloc was on March 26th, its purpose and what it represents. First is an open letter to UK Uncut from Solidarity Federation, the second a communique entitled ‘Why we took out Ann Summers’ from some of those involved in the [...]
Class war on the streets of London
Solidarity Federation’s report on events of March 26th On March 26th, London saw people assemble to protest and take direct action against the government. Most of the people there were marching quite simply because their jobs, their services, and their livelihoods are under attack. This included those of us in anarchist blocs, though we also [...]
To fight the cuts, make the country ungovernable
The thing about the cuts is they’re not simply a response to a ‘crisis’, the solution to which is a return to capitalism as ‘normal’. The normal looked much the same, with privatisations, pay freezes, workfare, casualisation… Thus we need to reject the idea these cuts are simply ‘ideological Tory cuts’, which is something put [...]
Radical Workers’ Bloc: Anarchists organising for March 26th
On Saturday 26th March the Trades Union Congress has called for a march against the cuts, and there is going to be a South London feeder march starting at Kennington Park which we will be joining. South London is one of the areas to be hardest hit by the cuts and has seen some of [...]
Solidarity Federation statement
“Hardcore troublemaker” anarchist group laughs off Millbank blame game Solidarity Federation, which helped organise the Radical Workers’ and Students Bloc at the NUS/UCU education march derides “absurd and patronising” attempts to blame it for damage at Tory HQ – and calls for increasing direct action against cuts. News reporters have been indulging in some imaginative [...]
