Communication Workers Group

Content by or about the Communication Workers Group, a radical group of postal workers active in the late 1980s and initiated by anarcho-syndicalists in the UK.

Direct Action #54 (January 1989)

Issue #54 of Direct Action, with articles on anti-terror legislation, a work-to-rule in the NHS, local strikes in the Post Office, a claimants'…

'Christmas is cancelled' headline

Some editions of Communication Worker - 1987-88

Here are seven editions of the bulletin produced by the rank-and-file postal workers' group Communication Workers Group.

Communication Worker masthead

Communication Worker bulletin

Partial archive of Communication Worker, bulletin of the Communication Workers Group in the UK in the 1980s.

Death to rank and filism!

The text below appeared in a short-lived project and one-off journal, entitled ‘Anti-Exchange and Mart’, produced in London in 1990. The article…

A seasonal message from the other Dupont - Le Garcon Dupont

This article is a short personal account by one of the members of Monsieur Dupont.

Communication Worker #05

A special bulletin of the rank and file Communication Workers Group's newsletter covering a strike ballot for a shorter working week, from 17…

1980s Royal Mail van

Brief history of the Communication Workers Group, 1987-1989

A brief account of the Communication Workers Group (CWG), a radical group of postal workers…

What we stand for - programme and aims of the CWG

Documents of the Communication Workers Group - the original programme of the group followed by the later, more radical document entitled "What we…

DAM rank and filists! The Communication Workers Group

Article written by one of Subversion, a former member of the rank and file Communication Workers Group, in 1994 looking at his/her experiences with the group and making suggestions on future efforts of workplace organising - importantly rejecting the CWG's rank and filism.