Southall Waterside Stinks! – Local working class resistance against soil and air pollution
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Nov 6 2018 17:53
In the media workers are usually portrayed as people who don’t care about ‘the environment’ – we see mining workers defending mining jobs or car workers demonstrating to keep car plants open. We forget that working class people tend to have much less of a choice to ‘act environmentally friendly’ – we lack the financial means to buy electric cars, organic food or hemp-based underwear - and there often is not much of a choice when it comes to jobs and working class communities that have formed around them.
West-London Solidarity Network - Steps towards a local proletarian association - An update
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Oct 22 2018 10:53
Self-defence against bosses, migration police, racist scumbags and other enemies of the working-class doesn’t fall from the sky. Weekly drop-ins and individual support are first necessary steps - and they can be laborious. If you live in London and want to get involved in our west-London solidarity network or want to set up your own network, please get in touch.
Not Tesco Finest - Warehouse workers' report
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Oct 12 2018 07:02
An article for the upcoming issue of WorkersWildWest, a free working class paper from west London
Two jobs with one stone - Reports about working at London Linen and Skinny Bakery
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Oct 1 2018 11:46
A friend of ours summarised his experiences about working at two west London workplaces as a temporary worker…
System Series Part Three - Crisis
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Sep 22 2018 21:58
Draft version of the third part of our vulgar 'system series' - to be published in our local workers' paper WorkersWildWest no.8
The Limits of 'Intersectionality': AngryWorkers book review of 'Striking Women'
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Sep 13 2018 16:35
AngryWorkers book review of 'Striking Women' - Struggles and Strategies of South Asian Women Workers from Grunwick to Gate Gourmet', by Sundari Anitha and Ruth Pearson
Chillers, bullies and Fatsolve - Night-shift drift of a Bakkavor food factory cleaner
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Aug 18 2018 17:49
Over the last four years we spoke to many night-shift cleaners from local food processing plants. Young guys having a spliff after shift, telling us that using the chemicals for cleaning in confined spaces make you think of Syria or other gas attacks. Women workers have less time, as they hurry to get the kids ready for school. From workers at Adelie sandwich plant to LSG Sky Chef airline caterer to Bakkavor ready-meal factory – they all tell us that the time given for cleaning the shop-floor is not enough and that despite their knowledge and responsibility they are paid the lowest possible wage. Read a longer report below…
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.
