Jose Julian Pununari, a worker from the occupied Argentinean Zanon factory is visiting the UK on a speaker tour, 12–17 February, as part of the student anti-sweatshop week of action organised by No Sweat and Students Against Sweatshops.

The Zanon tile factory in Neuquen is one of many ‘recovered’ factories in Argentina – factories taken over and run by the workers.

Faced with pay cuts and redundancies – and then no pay at all – the Zanon workers occupied and began to run the factory. They are coming to Britain to discuss their experience with activists here.

The visit is also being hosted by the Argentina Solidarity Campaign.

Jose will be speaking at the following meetings:

Sunday 12 February: Reception at 6pm at the Bread and Roses, 68a Clapham Manor Street, Clapham, south London. All welcome.

Monday 13: Oxford University (12,30pm, contact Kate 07950 216 692) and Brighton in the evening (7.30pm, at the Brighthelm Centre, North Road, contact Mick 07904 431 959)

Tuesday 14: Manchester University (5pm, Stopford Building, Lecture Theatre 4, Humanities, ring 07946 460 778)

Wednesday 15: Cambridge (12.30pm in the Bramwell Lounge, University Sports and Social Club, Mill Lane, contact Josh 07764 498 410) and in London in the evening.
This London meeting will be at the Rex cinema, Soho, and will include film showings of the Naomi Klein/Avi Lewis film on the recovered factory movement in Argentian, The Take. Tickets available online.

Thursday 16: Sheffield University (1pm at the Students' Union, contact 07886 399 683) and York University (5.15pm contact Mike 07814 896 517)

Friday 17: Leeds University (1pm in the conference room in the ARC, in the students' union, ring 07740 009199)

In addition the film, The Take, is being shown at 6pm on Monday 13 February at Sheffield University SU.

To find out more centrally or get involved in the student week of action, email No Sweat. For more information including briefings on Zanon and a leaflet for the tour, see No Sweat website.