Liverpool Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

15-09-2009 12:07 | 3 comments

Keyboard Warriors Needed as Liverpool Activists Picket Rubbish Scabs

A group of activists from the Workers' Fightback group amongst others are currently picketing strike-breakers Assist Streetcare at their depot in Aintree, Liverpool, and they need your help! Read more >>

13-09-2009 23:36

Workers' Fightback: Refuse workers against rubbish pay, Vestas, subway sabotage

We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system!

We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders!

We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives! Read more >>

09-09-2009 20:24

Support Striking Enterprise Liverpool Workers

Six hundred refuse collectors, street cleaners, recycling and highways staff employed by Liverpool City Council are on strike to protect wages and conditions. A series of rolling strikes, overtime bans and a work to rule have not been enough to stop the council using strike-breaking scabs. Read more >>

23-08-2009 23:51

Workers' Fightback: Update 15: Royal Mail and China

23-07-2009 22:51 | 2 comments

Solidarity protest at Vestas UK HQ in Warrington - Sat 25th July

Create Green Jobs - Don't destroy them
Support the Vestas Occupation
Solidarity protest at Vestas UK HQ in Warrington Read more >>

17-07-2009 22:59

French workers paid 30,000 Euros not to blow up factory

The company JLG in Tonneins, in the Lot-et-Garonne fell into the hands of 53 workers who have been given the sack. They demanded 30,000 euros each to leave otherwise they would blow up the factory. Within 48 hours they got what they wanted Read more >>

15-07-2009 16:54 | 1 comment

What Happened To Mayday On Merseyside?

Mayday has its roots in a radical workers' day of action. If you feel like you blinked and missed it in 2009, you're not alone. Read more >>

03-07-2009 15:15

Workers’ Fightback: Update 9

This past week has been relatively quiet on the industrial front. However, this is only in comparison to the past several, have seen workers gain real if unstable victories at the Lindsey oil refinery in North Lincolnshire, the Linamar car parts factory in Swansea, and a link-up between students and cleaners at the London School Of African and Oriental Studies. Read more >>

26-06-2009 21:29

Workers' Fightback: Update 8

Co-ordinating solidarity and exchanging information on independent, rank and file working class resistance to the profit system. The revolution will be social networked...

We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system!

We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders!

We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives!

12-06-2009 16:36

Workers' Fightback: Update 6

Co-ordinating solidarity and exchanging information on independent, rank and file working class resistance to the profit system. The revolution will be social networked... We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system! We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders! We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives! Read more >>

05-06-2009 22:31 | 14 comments

Tesco and the Surveillance State

The Role of Tesco in ID Card Function Creep. Read more >>

14-05-2009 01:40 | 6 comments

Targeting Benefit Fraud

The Government has set up a means to deal with Benefit Fraud. A Free Benefit Fraud Hotline. Read more >>

08-05-2009 01:15

Workers' Fightback Update - 8th May 2009

This is the first update for the Workers’ Fightback group. I intend to make them once a week or thereabouts, bringing you the latest from the class struggle frontline, in the UK and elsewhere. Read more >>

03-05-2009 12:11 | 1 comment

Mayday resources

Links to great social movement research books, theory, and magazine. Read more >>

27-04-2009 19:38

May Day Weekend at Next To Nowhere

To mark International Workers' Day - a radical tradition which dates back to the 1886 Haymarket affair (

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair) - the Liverpool Social Centre will be hosting a number of interesting events at 96A Bold Street. Read more >>

27-04-2009 13:42 | 2 comments

Mayday issue 3 launched for Mayday 2009

Mayday magazine is focused upon providing high-quality contributions and practical and theoretical satisfaction - we will do everything we can to meet your expectations.

We really do aim to produce some of the best working class practical theory and theoretical practice - Praxis for short. Read more >>

24-04-2009 17:04 | 1 comment

Manchester Mayday demo - 4th May

The G20 protests in the City of London were, in many ways, a massively mediatized spectacle. The real challenge is to show our opposition to the status quo at the local level of our everyday lives. This is why we are inviting you to join us on the Manchester Mayday demonstration, on Bank Holiday Monday 4th May.

Assemble 12noon @ All Saints Park to march to Castlefields.
Read more >>

24-04-2009 12:51

Visteon workers solidarity fundraiser Friday 1st May

Visteon workers solidarity fundraiser Friday 1st May Read more >>

25-03-2009 23:22

John Moores Students Protest Against Cuts

John Moores Vice Chancellor Michael Brown fled a group of 150 angry students and their supporters in his BMW (complete with JMU 1 numberplate) this afternoon. In doing so, he postponed a showdown over his plans to cut thirty-four courses from September. Read more >>

23-03-2009 11:42 | 4 comments

Beyond the G20 London summit

Bourgeois attempts
to channel proletarian struggles on an international scale
and
Invariant struggle
for the proletarian rupture
AGAINST SUMMITS AND COUNTER-SUMMITS Read more >>