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Zero magazine

An archive of the London-based magazine anarchist / anarcha-feminist magazine Zero from the late 1970s.

IWW Couriers Network: Our Network, Our Struggle

Submitted by Ed on Jul 28 2018 17:15

Only 7 months on from a meeting between a couple of disgruntled couriers in a dingy pub in Cardiff the IWW Couriers Network is growing across the UK and Ireland.

Bakkavor Factory Newsletter Issue no.4

Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Jul 24 2018 15:26

The Bakkavor food factories in west London are a prime example of the tension between structural oppression of each individual worker - most of them migrant women workers - and a collective potential of working class power. It ain't always easy, but we continue to work within that tension.

The Poverty of Student Unions

Submitted by BenS6 on Jul 22 2018 15:06

Institutions exist to do the exact opposite of their stated aims. The police force don’t exist to protect you and stop crime, but instead to keep you in line and to facilitate a unilaterial class war.

Schools don’t exist to educate people and teach them how to think independently, but rather to indoctrinate and create obedient workers.

Governments don’t exist to enact the political will of the people but to frustrate it.

Cleaners organised in UVW launch three simultaneous migrant workers strikes across London

Submitted by R Totale on Jul 17 2018 20:43

Cleaners organised in the United Voices of the World (UVW) trade union are walking out over pay and unfair working conditions at three of the wealthiest employers in the UK. This story was previously published by Freedom News and the UVW.

Rebel Roo (issue 9, July 2018)

This special issue of the Rebel Roo has been published in response to a new wave of strikes across the UK at Deliveroo and UberEats.

IWOC newsletter: The Imprisoned Worker #1

The first issue of The Imprisoned Worker. This zine has been put together by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Incarcerated Workers’ Organising Committee (IWOC) in Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England. It aims to provide a platform for prisoners, ex-prisoners and fellow workers to educate and organise one another in order to agitate against the prison-industrial-complex.

Underemployment, casualisation and the future of work

There has been, for a number of years, in the UK, a growth in the use of zero-hours contracts, mostly in the so called "gig" economy but also in other sectors such as cleaning, hospitality. This article describes some of the tactics being used by bosses to increase their control and power of the workers and to weaken the ability of workers to organise and act to improve their position.