unemployment

Redundancy: How It Feels - Beatrix Campbell

A chapter from Beatrix Campbell's 1984 book Wigan Pier Revisited on redundancy and masculinity.

Appendix: Workfare - the USA case

Supplement to 'Dole autonomy versus the re-imposition of work'.

Liverpool anarchist’s day of action against workfare 5th May 2012

Submitted by working class s... on May 5 2012 19:44

A brief report on a day of action against workfare in Liverpool.

Clashes during International Workers’ Day in Turin

Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on May 4 2012 09:08

The annual celebration of International Workers’ Day in Turin has become an occasion for activists to organise protests against local Mayor Fassino (PD, Centre-Left):

Why can’t anybody say ‘depression’?

Submitted by Joseph Kay on Apr 25 2012 17:42
Image from The Guardian, interactive version here: http://bit.ly/Jzajpn

This is a short blog inspired by the news that the UK is officially in ‘double-dip’ recession (as predicted by pretty much everyone on the left).

'The struggle for the streets': Unemployed hawkers, protest culture and repression in the Barcelona area, c1918-1936

Submitted by wojtek on Apr 12 2012 11:21

An article by Chris Ealham on the CNT's mobilisation of street traders, whom the Spanish Republic considered 'undesirables' and repressed, and the militancy of the vendors themselves.

Beyond work - Nina Power

'Work sucks' - Sisyphus

Nina Power on the need to not just resist workfare, but work as we know it.

Report: Combating workfare in Liverpool (31/3/2012)

Submitted by working class s... on Mar 31 2012 19:00

A brief report on an anti-workfare event in Liverpool

Abolish workfare - a guide to the government's unpaid work schemes

Abolish workfare

A 16-page guide to the government's unpaid labour schemes, the logic behind them, and resources for organising against them.

The Missing Piece of the Jigsaw

Submitted by Ernestine on Mar 18 2012 23:28

Greenwich council's latest plans for the riverside from West Greenwich (by the Millenium dome) to Woolwich were published in February. It is no big surprise that developers have their eye on Charlton and Woolwich - squeezed between the Millenium Village and the Woolwich Arsenal Crossrail site this is one of the last remaining areas on London's Thames where manufacturing industry survives.