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Employer attacks on workers' pay is the main issue at stake.

Teachers in the NUT are walking out over their pay deal which was supposed to be revised when inflation rose, but the government refused: effectively cutting their wages.

12/10/07 - Reports suggest that the Manpower agency is recruiting casuals during this strike, you may want to print out this pdf and distribute it at your local Manpower branch, or any other agency hiring for Royal Mail.

So where did you work? What was it like?
Since some of my friends are still working there, and I hope there is still some organising going on, I won't identify the college directly, but some background information would be useful.

Available here in TIF and here in PDF format. The text follows:

Dispatch

Public sector pay dispute — information for action

Issue 1 - August 2007

Royal Mail workers: Fighting to win

Doing the job as it’s meant to be done

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1pt
A hippie
A nutter
A punk, British
A group of punks drinking, British
An SWP member coming to check out genuine socialism
An anarchist who used to be in the SWP
An old man with a beard. Possibly old enough to lead you to ponder whether or not he fought in Spain…

2pts

An interview with a former member of revolutionary UPS workers group Uprise! by libcom, based on a libcom questionnaire. Uprise! was active in 2002 and 2003.

Lasting only from 2002 to 2004, it suffered many of the weaknesses common in the contemporary anarchist movement of the English speaking world.

So, who are you?
The proletarian formerly known as Funnywump.

Briefly, what was McDonald’s Workers Resistance?

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin unveiled his labour law liberalisation package the CPE (’first employment contract’) on 16th January. He said that “urgent” action was needed to “bring the French labour market into the modern era”.

We at libcom.org news spoke to one of the students taking part, and interviewed him about the students' last occupation of their library (pictured left) in March in protest against cuts.

What happened on the night of the occupation?

When analysing the state of the working class, it is up to those looking at it to observe and evaluate the tendencies working within it. By this we don’t mean, “how many people have joined the Marxist-Leninist Workers’ League?” or “how many people self-identify as anarchists?” but something a little more subtle than that.

The recent movement in France against the CPE have been a massive inspiration to militant workers the world over.

[i]Translations available here: Dutch/Nederlands, Italian/Italiano, Polish/Polski, [url=/other-languages/el-anarquismo-ingles-ante-los-atentados-de-londre

Noi anarchici di classe e comunisti libertari deploriamo gli attacchi raccapriccianti sulle persone innocenti stamattina a Londra. Esprimiamo le nostre più sentite condoglianze a tutt* coloro che sono stat* toccati dall'accaduto. Condanniamo l'uso della violenza contro la gente comune e condaniamo i responsabili per tutti gli attentati bombaroli, siano islamisti o non.

Expresamos nuestra profunda simpatía a todos los afectados por las explosiones.

Condenamos el uso de violencia contra gente corriente y los atentados con bombas, sean islamistas o de cualquier otro signo.

We drukken onze diepste sympathie uit voor iedereen die door de ontploffingen
is getroffen. We veroordelen het gebruik van geweld tegen gewone mensen en de uitvoerders van de bomaanslagen, of ze nu Islamisten of wat dan ook zijn.

We spreken onze diepste deelneming uit naar iedereen die geraakt is door de ontploffingen. We veroordelen het gebruik van geweld tegen gewone mensen en de daders van de bomaanslagen of het nu islamieten zijn of wie dan ook.