Wapping dispute

Content about the lengthy and militant dispute between printworkers and Rupert Murdoch's News International in 1986-1987, centred around the News International plant in Wapping, East London.

Despite the Sun (video)

In January 1986, Rupert Murdoch moved his printing operation, News International, publishers of the Sun and the Sunday Times, from Fleet St to…

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…

Wapping' 86: a photo essay - Nic Oatridge

A short booklet about the 1986 Wapping dispute at News International, containing a good set of photographs.

Police protect the Wapping plant

Paper Boys - one man's accounts of picketing at Wapping

One man's very personal account of the often violent picketing during the News International 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.

Picket: bulletin of the Wapping printers' dispute, 1986-1987

PDFs of all 43 issues of Picket, the unofficial newsletter of the News International printers'…

Headline "Murdoch Fucks Donkeys"

The Sun - spoof newspaper from the Wapping strike, 1986

Short spoof issue of The Sun newspaper produced by anarchists to support the News International…

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.

Wapping printers' strike, 1986-87.

The Wapping printers' dispute, 1986-7 - Sam Lowry

A short history of a strike and subsequent lockout by printers in the Wapping area of London, which began in the winter of 1986 and ended just…