wapping
Articles about the strike of news International printers in Wapping in 1986-1987. The strike was a key defeat for the working class in the UK, after the miners strike.
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' strike, 1986-1987
PDFs of all 43 issues of Picket, the unofficial newsletter of the News International printers strike of 1986.
digitised by libcom.org
The Sun - spoof newspaper from the Wapping strike, 1986
Short spoof issue of The Sun newspaper produced by anarchists to support the News International printers strike at Wapping in 1986.
digitised by libcom.org
The Scum - comic about the Wapping strike, 1986
A contemporary spoof of The Sun newspaper containing a "Tintin" cartoon about the Wapping printers strike of 1986.
digitised by libcom.org
1986-1987: Wapping printers strike
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.
