workplace activity
Articles, interviews and accounts about organising at work, problems people have come up against and lessons they have learned.
An account of unofficial action at Tower Hamlets College
A short account by a participant of a staff rebellion in 2009 against an enforced training session, which helped build workers' collective confidence prior to a big strike.
Some local supporters witnessed an open air meeting of our union branch on Friday 3rd July where we had to take the decision of what to do on the Monday of the last week of work. Monday was not a strike day because it was planned as something more important.
For workers' control! - Lessons of recent struggles in the UK
A leaflet compiled by members of the Solidarity Federation to share with workers in struggle - making the case for workers' self-organisation with practical examples from recent disputes. Download a print-ready pdf here.
Recent years have seen promising signs of a working class fightback, after decades of attacks on working class living standards.
Reflections on work, legal aid and the welfare state
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A legal aid worker's analysis of legal aid, and its role in preserving social peace in capitalist society.
Introduction
On workplace organisation - Red and Black Notes
A look at the exchange between Stan Weir and Sam Friedman on workplace organisation. The following article, which has been slightly edited for publication, was written in 1997 as a comment on an exchange in the US publication Against the Current dating to 1981/82. This article has been archived on libcom.org from the Red and Black Notes website.
The exchange between Stan Weir and Sam Friedman in the pages of Against the Current poses several important questions:
The organization of workplace groups and culture
The relationship of workplace activists to workplace groups
The role of organizations in class struggle
Education Worker - issue 4 - Bulletin of the Education Workers Network
Education Worker - issue 4 - Bulletin of the Education Workers Network
Catalyst #20 Spring 2009 - Newsletter of the Solidarity Federation
Catalyst #20 Spring 2009 - Newsletter of the Solidarity Federation
Action against Subway | Maternity leave | Mitie cleaners | Post office sell off
Catalyst #19 February 2009 - Newsletter of the Solidarity Federation
Catalyst #19 February 2009 - Newsletter of the Solidarity Federation
Victory at Metronet | Redundancy rights | Deaths at work | Trouble at Amey
On the frontline: anarchists at work
Workplace Strategy of the Anarchist Federation
The following text is the official workplace strategy of the Anarchist Federation, adopted nationally in April 2009. Drawing on the experiences of AF members at the workplace, it aims to lay out the possibilities for anarchists in the here and now and open debate in the movement on workplace organisation.
Preface
1970-1972: The Lordstown struggle and the real crisis in production - Ken Weller
Fascinating pamphlet by Solidarity on the informal workers struggle against the frenetic pace of work at a General Motors plant, and the later co-optation of the struggle by the auto workers union.
This pamphlet is an attempt to document some important tendencies developing in the motor car industry but which are relevant to modern production as a whole. We feel these trends have important political consequences for revolutionary socialists.
Lernia Correctional Facility: a story from a Swedish unemployment programme
A short 'militant investigation' about struggles at a Swedish unemployment programme. by Kim Müller, Kämpa tillsammans!
I have spent about two years in different unemployment programmes in a mid-size Swedish town and this is my story about that experience. For most of the time I was training to become a cook in the Lernia programme (nicknamed "Lernia Correctional Facility" by its inmates).
