Tag Archives: Strikes
N30 police station support – can you help?
We need people to volunteer to do police station support for November 30th! Having someone to meet you and help you out after you’ve been arrested can make a massive difference to how traumatic the whole experience is, and all you need is a friendly face, a pad of paper and your phone. Other potentially [...]
N30 must just be the beginning
Statement of Anarchist Federation (London) on N30 Perhaps as many as three million workers will be striking on November 30th in the biggest round of industrial action since 1926, with members of 24 unions represented. Alongside this will be various actions including occupations and demonstrations.
Freedom stall on N30 demo, London
Freedom Press will be having a stall at the beginning of the main public sector march in London (Lincoln’s Inn Fields) on Nov 30. We will be distributing all manner of political material to the striking workers. If you have propaganda you want distributed or put on display either bring it down to Freedom bookshop [...]
Everybody out!
Public sector strike for November 30th The announcement last month that public sector workers will be balloted for strike action on November 30th could see more than three million people, ranging from teachers, firefighters and refuse collectors to local government workers, hospital staff and environmental workers, walk out on what some are predicting will be [...]
All out on November 30th! ALARM statement & new freesheet
Solidarity to the strikers The All London Anarchist Revolutionary Movement (ALARM) would like to express solidarity with the 3 million workers taking strike action on November 30th. We are workers, students, the unemployed, trade unionists, parents, carers, activists. Many of us will be striking on that day and many more of us will join you [...]
June 30th: An anarchist teacher’s perspective
As an anarchist, I was not initially impressed by the idea of a one day strike. It didn’t sound very militant- going out on strike at the end of term after the exams were over when the students were about to finish in any case; there wasn’t going to be much impact. However, having now [...]
You only love us when we strike
In the defence of trade unionism The anarchist (broadly speaking) critique of mainstream trade unions is well known, and valid. Big unions are arbiters and enforcers of social peace, supporters of the Labour Party, which is part of the system of electoral liberal democracy, and as such a reinforcement of business as usual. They are [...]
J30 Strike Map
» J30 Strike Map There is now an map of all the publicised pickets, rallies and demonstrations so far happening around the country in response to the massive public sector union walk out. Anarchists groups will be visible amongst the striking workers. Check » Anarchist Federation » Solidarity Federation for the stuff they have organised [...]
Council workers take on bosses
Southampton gets militant in the fight against the cuts Council workers in Southampton have instigated a strategy of indefinite strike action in opposition to the introduction of a policy of sacking staff and re employing them on lower rates with poorer terms and conditions. If the council succeeds in its objective it could be replicated [...]
J30 Posters & stickers
These posters are now available at Freedom Bookshop to pick up and distribute for the June 30th public sector strike. Or if you send postage to the shop we can send them out to you. Contact details: Freedom Bookshop 84b Whitechapel High Street London E1 7QX Phone: 020 7247 9249 Email: shop@freedompress.org.uk
