"Any retail workers out there?"

Maybe not so local, try the www.iww.org website for a link to the retail workers dot org site (if it's still going).

The UK ROC IWW did have for a while, as it had organised a co-op shop in the west. Post something up on the internal/external (IWW) forum for more info.

few retail workers in SolFed as well, but not enough so far to get anything in terms of network etc off the ground.

SolFeds industrial news sheet Catalyst carries some retail related articles from time to time, and so does Freedom.

Here's a picture of them & their chums in Tesco's a couple of years back:-

but I don't know if any of them work, in retail or otherwise.

It was stupid, but from what I've heard, the staff were quite glad of an opportunity to sit off for a minute or two while security tried to escort them out.

Before all the pricks respond.

There wasn't any "mess made" all the commotion was from the dirty filth. The action was followed a week later by 6 of us leafletting all the workers and shoppers at Tescos (which was in Hackney). People were very interested to say the least in what we had to say and we won around a few pissed off people as well. Following that in August after two workers in dublin tesco depot was sacked we organised a solidarity picket, again in Tescos at Hackney, attended by around 25-30 people. The banner read "solidarity with sacked Tesco worker". Again we leafletted shoppers and workers, with two workers sneaking out from work to tell us that most of the staff support what we're doing.

what a mess

Also WOMBLES has pretty much disolved itself and people are involved in a variety of new political projects. If I get this job as a sales assistant then I'll join your initiative.

Bob you could check, and contribute to, this networking thread:

http://libcom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8465

Who exactly do you mean by that? I mean, do you really wanna attack people's bathing habits?

So you're no longer questioning the credentials of anarchists who work then?

Alan, the small occasions I've met you you have made the impression to me of being a snobby lifestylist politico who assumes more than he has experienced, that doesn't have any passion what so ever for changing anything and are more concerned with being with the "cool in crowd" of Libcom.

Now go and ask Jack what all the big words mean and come back when your seriously gonna engage with whats what.

Raw

p.s. didn't you grass up a shoplifter when you were working in retail? A little birdie told me.

What is with all of these attacks on raw? I meet him when I was in London at some do to celebrate the publication of a biography of Sylvia Pankhurst in Turkish. He wasn't the complete 'hippy' that I had been led to believe that the Wombles were from Libcom. There was a class base to his politics. That is not to say that I don't fundamentally disagree with them, but we sat, had a beer, and discussed them. I am sure that he disagrees with me too. My point is that his politics aren't usually addressed. People just throw insults at him. I think that he is wrong, and that his politics represent a theroreticisation of two decades of low levels of working class struggle. I am prepared to argue that with him, but comments about his 'bathing habits' are just crass.

Devrim

Yeah, I'm the lifestylist. That's it.

Of course you wouldn't be assuming anything in that statement would you? You're right though, I simply couldn't give a fuck.

You think Libcomistas are cool? Jeez, what fucking planet are you on? John wears skinny ties for fuck's sake.

If I do will you answer my question about your stance on anarchists getting employment? If your memory needs refreshing I can dig out the thread in which you declared anarchists shouldn't work cos they should be too busy organising empty, spectacular subcultural events.

By "a little birdie", do you mean me? Cos I'm not a girl, and I don't think you should refer to your female comrades in such a way.

And yeah, my supervisor did once call the cops when two squaddies started banging on my shop's door and making physical threats at 3am. Is that "wrong" according to your ill-conceived, self-gratifying dogma Raw? Please tell me, I'm absolutely intrigued. Honest.

People need to sell their labour time in exchange for a wage so they can pay for things that they need. I've worked, I prefer (shock horror!) not to, I will do my utmost to avoid disciplined work and I prefer to occupy my life time with the things I want to do and hang out with people I want to hang out with and experience and learn about the world.

My point (and don't fucking repost that old thread again!) was that our aim is to destroy disciplined work, we are anti-work, we should find ways out work individually and collectively or if we can't to make our time at work as political useful to communicating and propagating ideas (like in any other social environment).

And passion sometimes means shouting and saying the right things in the wrong way.

I do work, and have done since I was 16. That makes 22 years of shit, more than half of my life. Of course I would prefer not to, but most people don't have a choice.

Devrim

Thats obvious, many people don't have a choice....gradually I have less of a choice but my point still stands I, you and hundreds of million of workers prefer not to work in the way they do. If you had a way to stop working and do what you want to do with your time wouldn't you?

Though in my situation it means living off £55 a week it means a lifestyle change to someone on £25,000 a year.

raw

I assume that one of the workers wasn't an anarchist then? Wouldn't it have been better to have supported both rather than just the one who was polltically on side?

Which shop is it that you have gone for a job?

What?! What are you on mate. It was a typo, I said two workers were sacked and then stated the banner slogan, though mistakenly left out the plural on "worker"(s). But surely no one would have jumped to that conclusion that OBVIOUSLY we are such pure anarchists to be supporting just anarchist workers. We were supporting them because a call was made for solidarity and a day of action was announced (in which 6 Tesco's were picketed up and down the country).

Good grief!

Lies! Anyone who was there know's that 3 people dressed in pink with a drum were soundly thrashed by the shoppers, workers then people of Hackney at large. Shouts of, 'how dare you interrupt me when i'm selling my labour!' and 'lifestylist scum!' rang from Finsbury to Clapton. The only leaflet there, written on bog roll with a piece of charcoal read, ''Anarky 4 ever! fuck working, drop out! Sell ketamine!''.

PS bob ebay is trolling 8)