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.
1968 in India
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on May 27 2018 17:40
We wrote down some thoughts for a discussion meeting with comrades of wildcat (Germany) about the global uprising of 1968, looking at the wider historical background of 1968 in India.
Angry Workers of the World: a short introduction
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on May 18 2018 10:17
A short introduction to Angry Workers of the World, an unruly and irregular workers' paper from London.
A preliminary summary of an IWW organising effort, winter 2017/18
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on May 18 2018 07:23
In late September 2017 the IWW London branch invited friends and comrades to take part in an organising drive in West London factories and warehouses. We chose half a dozen companies, employing between 100 and 800 mainly migrant workers where there was no trade union present.
What's the mess we live in - System series - Part 2
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Apr 24 2018 13:49
We write a 'system series' for our local working class paper WorkersWildWest. Part 1 dealt with the historical roots of the system, part 2 looks at the basic features of wage labour and exploitation. Trigger-warning: we shamelessly ignore the value-form, vulgar-Marxists that we are...
