London Workers Group Bulletin #11 August 1981
An issue of London Workers Group bulletin from 1981.
Featuring articles on riots, report from a nurse, report from a postal worker, Press Association dispute with clerical workers, BBC Publications strike, British Rail workers, automation/information technology, report on claimants and unwaged conferences in South East England and Leicester, union bureaucrats, Poland, letter from Albert Meltzer, Workers Autonomy leaflet from France.
Solidarity With Strikes In France!
Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Feb 16 2020 08:52
Donation request from a French railway worker, February 2020
Video, 4mins: https://en.labournet.tv/solidarity-strikes-france
Fighting Macron’s pension reform means relaunching the wider fight for higher wages everywhere - Mouvement Communiste
A leaflet distributed during the recent strikes and demonstartions against new pension reforms in France.
Dockers on strike in Bayonne
Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Jan 14 2020 06:59
In France, the movement against the new pension reform has been taking place since December 5th, 2019, and is getting stronger and stronger.
Interview with docker and CGT general secretary Dylan:
https://en.labournet.tv/dockers-strike-bayonne
Jump the turnstile of non-life!
A 2018 article from the ultra-left Chilean project Comunidad de Lucha, looking at the mass fare evasion which would go on to inspire the 2019 Chilean revolt. Translated by Ediciones Inéditas and taken from an archived copy of the defunct EI site.
The railway hamlet - Chaiwat
Chatcharin Chaiwat's short fiction about the gruesome workplace death of a Thai railway worker and the identifical fate of his son years later.
Brazil: popular revolt and its limits
June 2018 marks five years since the wave of protests against the price of collective transportation, which shook the streets of hundreds of brazilian cities in 2013. At the heart of those riots was the Movimento Passe Livre (something like Free Pass Movement), an autonomous and horizontal social movement founded in 2005, which defended the gratuity of transport. Written in 2014 by two militants who later left the organization, this article reflects on the limits of that cycle of protests.
A serious public transport strike in the Netherlands
Submitted by rooieravotr on Jul 1 2018 17:33
There is some serious strike action going on in the Netherlands in regional public transport. This is like a breath of fresh air in a country where the Right is on the rampage and workers' struggles have been quite subdued for much too long.
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