Mike Treen? Jesus fuck, you poor bastards. What a smarmy cock.
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A brief overview of the numerous struggles which occurred in the British Caribbean during the 1930s, which led to the introduction of many trade union rights across the region, written by Jamaican trade unionist Richard Hart.
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Gilles Dauve's analysis of both the Situationists' theoretical strengths and weaknesses.
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First issue of an irregular workers' bulletin put together by users of the website, libcom.org. This issue focuses on the 2008 pay dispute over sub-inflation pay offers.
Supersize My Pay: Young Workers Get Organised
Reception hosted by No Sweat and Battersea and Wandsworth TUC
Between 11 and 19 February, as part of the No Sweat week of action,
two activists with a great experience of young workers organising will
be touring the UK: Mike Treen from New Zealand and Axel Perrson from
France. (See below for details.)
On 15 February, London No Sweat and Battersea and Wandsworth Trades
Council will host a reception to welcome Mike and Axel to the UK.
6pm, Friday 15 February: the Bread & Roses pub, 68a Clapham Manor
Street, London
(Clapham Common tube or Clapham High Street rail)
All welcome! Please come to eat, drink and hear our comrades tell us
how young workers in Britain can start get organised.
For more information ring email paul@hampton1968.freeserve.co.uk or
ring 07984 356 110
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Mike Treen, an activist with the Unite union whose Supersize My Pay
campaign has organised thousands of young fast food workers in New
Zealand, and French fast food worker and CGT union activist Axel
Perrson will be speaking in towns including Oxford, Brighton, Norwich,
Cambridge, Hull, Nottingham, Sheffield, London, Durham, Leeds and
Glasgow.
Details:
http://www.nosweat.org.uk/node/690
More info: admin@nosweat.org.uk