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Greetings! Use labels below to filter so you can read about union disputes, where i'm on holiday, revolutionary politics, or just what i have said in the last 7 days. Ta

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Support the Postal Workers Strike this week

As part of the Tyneside Postal Workers Solidarity group i've set up the blog on behalf of the group. You can visit that blog here.

It includes, links to all strike dates, stalls details for this saturday (2pm, newcastle monument) and next weekly planning meeting (wed 11th Nov 6pm, gateshead civic centre)

For Workers Liberty bulletins (see here) and other reports from workers liberty here

To join the facebook group go here

Monday, May 25, 2009

Blog's i like

Hi comrades not been on here for ages and just realised i hadnt added David's excellent blog http://republic-of-teesside.blogspot.com/

Its here now for you to link to and its also in the listing on the side.

David is involved in the Teesside Solidarity Network which organises meetings for for our revolutionary mates in the South of the region and very good thing too, though i havent been to one for a few months.

Ed

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Yes, fight for jobs - and for all workers!

a response to the recent strike waves on workers liberty.org  


Wildcat strike action has spread across the UK in support of a strike by construction workers at the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire over an Italian firm getting a contract for part of the refitting work on the refinery. The Italian firm will use its permanent workforce of Italian workers.
Part of the background to the strike is increased use of sub-contracting on construction jobs, using EU rulings which allow contractors to undercut union-negotiated agreements by employing sub-contractors from other EU countries.
On Monday 2 February the Lindsey strikers adopted a series of positive trade-union demands. But socialists have faced the paradox that the most inspiring working-class movement for many years takes place under a central slogan, "British Jobs For British Workers", which cannot conceivably answer the needs which spur the action. What should our attitude be?

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Yes, fight for jobs - and for all workers!

a response to the recent strike waves on workers liberty.org



Thursday, January 29, 2009

Teesside Solidarity Network: inaugural meeting

Teesside Solidarity Network: inaugural meeting

Ecology, feminism, solidarity
Time and Place
Date:
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Time:
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Sassaris (upstairs)
Street:
Linthorpe Road
Contact Info
Email:

Description

With the recent war in Gaza, the economic crisis across the globe, and attacks on abortion rights, asylum seekers, and civil liberties many activists are looking for new ideas about how to confront injustice and oppression. 

We are a group of activists inspired by workers and womens solidarity movements and are a from a variety of different traditions - what we are all concerned with is thinking about which way forward for the left and for working class and feminist politics. 

This is the first of a new series of meetings where we can get together and talk openly and critically about politics with each other and revitalize the threads of radical history and politics that have been part of Teesside's hidden history.