Printers Playtime
Workers Playtime is a defunct workerist journal that last came out in May 1985, just after the end of the miners' strike. This pamphlet is a collection of Playtime articles. Together, they trace the changing character of the class struggle in the UK printing industry. It ends with a short piece about Wapping, and extracts from the unofficial strike bulletin Picket.
Wapping' 86: a photo essay - Nic Oatridge
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 8 2011 17:47
A short booklet about the 1986 Wapping dispute at News International, containing a good set of photographs.
Paper Boys - one man's accounts of picketing at Wapping
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 24 2009 11:29
One man's very personal account of the often violent picketing during the News International strike at Wapping in 1985-6.
PREFACE
They said we were greedy printers but we showed them all.
Since the Winter of Discontent, when the Soft Cops were no longer able to control the workers their role for Capital has been on the decline and that of Hard Cop on the increase.
Our activity in the late 1980s and 1990s: activity and balance sheet - Antagonism
The Antagonism group reflect on their activities and theoretical development, through involvement in various groups and struggles from the mid-1980s to the end of the 1990s.
The leaflets and texts in this archive were produced by informal and ad hoc groupings or individuals, based in Southeast England from about 1986 onwards, and are to some extent part of the prehistory of the Antagonism project. They were produced under many different names (partly as a sort of personal joke), and by different overlapping collections of individuals.
Picket: bulletin of the Wapping printers' dispute, 1986-1987
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 5 2008 19:22
PDFs of all 43 issues of Picket, the unofficial newsletter of the News International printers' dispute of 1986.
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The Sun - spoof newspaper from the Wapping strike, 1986
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 5 2008 19:14
Short spoof issue of The Sun newspaper produced by anarchists to support the News International printers strike at Wapping in 1986.
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The Scum - comic about the Wapping dispute, 1986
A contemporary spoof of The Sun newspaper containing a "Tintin" cartoon about the Wapping printers dispute of 1986.
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1986-1987: Wapping printers strike
Submitted by Alex... on Feb 19 2007 21:18
A short history of a strike by printers in the London borough of Wapping which began in the winter of 1986 and ended just over a year later. The strike marked one of the last major confrontations of the 1980s between workers and employers.
The strike of newspaper workers that began on January 24, 1986, marked the beginning of a bitter year long dispute between the print workers of Wapping, a borough of East London, and their employers, the publishing company News International.
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