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      • Stuff your boss (doesn't want you to know)
      • Stuff your sexist boss (doesn't want you to know) (2018)
      • Stuff your landlord (doesn't want you to know) (2016)
      • Is your cleaning job killing you? A guide to cleaners health and safety (2017)
      • Office worker’s health and safety - your rights and how to use them (2015)
      • A migrant's guide to Manchester (2016) [en es]
      • A migrant's guide to London (2014) [en es pl]
      • Strike - a guide to walking out (2014)
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      • Anarcho-syndicalism in Britain – a little history (2015)
        • 1. 19th century to 1914 - The First International, growth of industrial unionism and the Great Unrest
        • 2. 1914–1945 - State suppression and the Bolshevik turn – how Lenin’s seeming success drew militants to the Comintern
        • 3. 1945–1994 - The Anarchist Federation of Britain, Syndicalist Workers’ Federation and Direct Action Movement
        • 4. Today’s movement - A short look at the strategy and thinking of the modern Solidarity Federation
      • Office worker’s health and safety - your rights and how to use them (2015)
      • Anarchism and Anarcho-syndicalism (Rudolf Rocker, 2014)
        • Introduction
        • 1. Ideology of Anarchism
        • 2. History of anarchist philosphy, from Lao-Tse to Kropotkin
        • 3. The origins of anarcho-syndicalism
        • 4. Socialism and anarcho-syndicalism in France
        • 5. The role of the trade unions: anarcho-syndicalist view
        • 6. The struggle in Germany and Spain
        • 7. The political struggle: anarcho-syndicalist view
        • 8. Anarcho-syndicalism since the First World War
      • Fighting for ourselves - anarcho-syndicalism and the class struggle (2012)
        • Introduction
        • 1. The mainstream workers' movement
        • 2. Radical currents in the workers' movement
        • 3. Anarcho-syndicalism in the 20th century
        • 4. Capitalism and the class struggle since World War II
        • 5. Anarcho-syndicalism in the 21st century
        • Endnotes
      • Workmates - direct action workplace organising on the London underground (2011)
      • The Economics of freedom (2003)
      • A history of anarcho-syndicalism (2001)
      • Out of the frying pan, a critical look at works councils (1998)
      • Health and safety at work - an anarcho-syndicalist approach (1997)
      • Anarcho-syndicalism in Puerto Real (1994)
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      • Solidarity Federation Education Union (SFEU)
      • Solidarity Federation Hospitality Workers Union (SFHWU)
      • Why do we organise?
      • This is our flag - it tells you what we stand for
      • What is anarcho-syndicalism anyway?
      • Anarchism and Syndicalism (short version)
      • Anarchism and Syndicalism
      • Towards a better union
      • Protest is not enough
      • Building beyond elections
      • We should run our workplaces
      • We should run our communities
      • We should run our movements
    • Newsletters
      • Brighton Solidarity
        • Brighton Solidarity #3
      • Education Worker
        • Education Worker #10 Victimisation (2013)
        • Education Worker #9 (2012)
        • Education Worker #8 Academy Special (2012)
      • Wildcat!
        • Wildcat! #13 (Jan 2013)
        • Wildcat! (Winter 2012)
        • Wildcat! #6 (Summer 2011)
        • Wildcat! #5 (Spring 2011)
        • Wildcat! #4 (Dec 2010)
        • Wildcat! #3 (Oct-Nov 2010)
        • Wildcat! #2 (Jul-Aug 2010)
        • Wildcat! Football for the fans NOT for fat cats! (Jul 2010)
        • Wildcat! #1 (May-June 2010)
      • May Day Bulletin (Newcastle SolFed, 2014)
    • Direct Action
      • Direct Action #2 (2024)
      • Direct Action #1 (2023)
      • Direct action #47 (Summer 2009)
    • Catalyst
      • Catalyst #29 (Feb 2012)
      • Catalyst #28 (Oct 2011)
      • Catalyst #27 (Jun 2011)
      • Catalyst #26 (Mar 2011)
      • Catalyst #25 (Dec 2010)
      • Catalyst #24 (Summer 2010)
    • SelfEd
      • A history of anarcho-syndicalism
        • Block 1
          • Unit 1: The Origins of Capitalism
          • Unit 2: Britain: The Radical Period 1750-1840
          • Unit 3: The First International
          • Unit 4: France 1870-1918 Early revolutionary unions
          • Unit 5: Revolutionary Syndicalism in Britain, 1870-1910
          • Unit 6: Revolutionary Syndicalism in Britain and Ireland, 1910-17
        • Block 2
          • Unit 7: Mexico 1870-1920: Colonialism and Revolution
          • Unit 8: USA 1886-1930 - The Wobblies
          • Unit 9: Anarcho-syndicalism in Argentina 1870-1939
          • Unit 10: Sweden 1889-1939
          • Unit 11: Russia I: 1850-1917
          • Unit 12 Russia II: 1917-30
        • Block 3
          • Unit 13: Going Global - International Organisation, 1872-1922
          • Unit 14: Anarcho-syndicalism in Britain, 1914-30
          • Unit 15 Spain, 1868-1936: Build-up to Revolution
          • Unit 16 Spain: Culture, education, women and sexuality
          • Unit 17: Spain 1936-39: Revolution and Civil War
          • Unit 18: Spain - The Collectives
        • Block 4
          • Unit 19: Britain, 1930-1950 - The Era of Reform
          • Unit 20: Britain, 1950-1990 - Decline of Social Democracy
          • Unit 21: anarcho-syndicalism 1939-99
          • Unit 22: Roots of modern anarcho-syndicalism: freedom, oppression & rebellion
          • Unit 23: Roots of modern anarcho-syndicalism: morality, culture & tactics
          • Unit 24: The spirit of anarcho-syndicalism
    • Library
      • Direct Action Movement (DAM-IWA)
        • Winning the class war - an anarcho-syndicalist strategy (DAM, 1991)
        • No Poll Tax here (DAM, 1988)
        • Revolutionary unionism in Latin America - the FORA in Argentina (1987)
        • DAM and the Trade Unions (1980s)
      • Syndicalist Workers Federation (SWF-IWA)
        • Smash the wage freeze! (SWF, 1966)
        • A cheap holiday in Spain (SWF, 1963)
        • Lenin and Workers' Control (SWF, 1960s)
        • How Labour governed 1945-1951 (SWF, 1951)
      • Anarchist Federation of Britain (AFB)
        • Nationalisation and the new boss class (Tom Brown, 1946)
      • Other and earlier publications
        • Student Radicals - an incomplete history of protest at the University of Sussex 1971-1975 (Ed Goddard, 2011)
        • Anarcho-syndicalism in the 20th Century (Vadim Damier, 2009)
          • Translator's introduction
          • Preface
          • Part 1: Revolutionary Syndicalism
            • Chapter 1: From the First International to Revolutionary Syndicalism
            • Chapter 2: the Rise of the Revolutionary Syndicalist Movement
            • Chapter 3: Revolutionary Syndicalism and Anarchism
            • Chapter 4: Revolutionary Syndicalism during the First World War
          • Part 2: Anarcho-syndicalism
            • Chapter 5: The Revolutionary Years
            • Chapter 6: From Revolutionary Syndicalism to Anarcho-syndicalism
            • Chapter 7: The World Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement in the 1920’s and 1930’s
            • Chapter 8: Ideological-Theoretical Discussions in Anarcho-syndicalism in the 1920’s -1930’s
          • Part 3: The Spanish Revolution
            • Chapter 9: The Uprising of July 19 1936
            • Chapter 10: Libertarian Communism or Antifascist Unity?
            • Chapter 11: Under the Pressure of Circumstances
            • Chapter 12: The CNT Enters the Government
            • Chapter 13: The CNT in Government - Results and Lessons
            • Chapter 14: Notwithstanding “Circumstances”
            • Chapter 15: The Spanish Revolution and World Anarcho-syndicalism
          • Part 4: Decline and Possible Regeneration
            • Chapter 16: Anarcho-Syndicalism during the Second World War
            • Chapter 17: Anarcho-syndicalism After World War II
            • Chapter 18: Anarcho-syndicalism in contemporary Russia
          • Bibliographic Essay
          • Acronyms
        • Trade unionism or syndicalism? (Tom Brown, 1943)
        • The General Strike - vol 1 no 1 (Sam Mainwaring, 15 Feb 1904)
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new website

new websitewelcome to our temp website v2.solfed.org.uk - we are updating and working on our website, so the link will change back to solfed.org.uk when it is relaunched

About us

The Solidarity Federation is an anarcho-syndicalist union, a means for people seeking to improve our lives to organise in our workplaces and communities. SolFed brings together people in all occupations regardless of industry or sector, craft or trade – whether we’re employed or not.

SolFed seeks the abolition of capitalism and the institutions of power that are associated with it, such as the state. Our goal is to create a society centred on needs rather than profit, based upon the principle ‘from each according to ability, to each according to need’.

We believe in the principle of direct action – that means doing something for ourselves and not expecting leaders or representatives to act on our behalf.

SolFed members organise ourselves in a federation of local unions; in education we are in the Solidarity Federation Education Union (SFEU) and our members in hospitality are in the Solidarity Federation Hospitality Workers Union (SFHWU)

Join us!

By solfed-iwa, 22 September, 2026

London Anarchist Bookfair 2026

London Anarchist Bookfair 2026It’s bookfair time again! This Friday the 25th of September we will have a stall (our stall at this year's London Anarchist Bookfair it number 13 in The Studio on Floor 4 at Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA), so come find us to pick up some flyers and chat about organising in the workplace. We will be on floor 4 at Rich Mix from 10pm. For more detail about the bookfair see here. Also remember that the Red and Black club will be running as usual the night before, more info here.

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Why do we organise?

why-do-we-organise-1Capitalism is shit, oppression is shit - but what can we at SolFed do about it?

We need to change the world we live in - a world where exploitation at work and home, state violence, oppression and inequality run rampant.

We can’t do this as individuals - only mass collective action from across the breadth of the working class can achieve this. This doesn’t need to be controlled by a small handful of self-appointed leaders - but if we want to build a movement that challenges capital, the state and all forms of oppression, we need to get organised.

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By solfed-iwa, 18 September, 2026

North London Solidarity Federation - New website

nlsfIf you are reading this, you have probably noticed that we have a new website with Network23. Our old Noblogs site has not been updated since the end of August and will likely go down in the near future. We have ported over a lot of our old site, but for the time being many links and files on ported pages and posts will refer to the old Noblogs site and it will take us a while to work through them all and correct them. The reason for this change-over is that the provider of Noblogs, the Italian Autistici/Inventati (A/I) collective, has been forced to shut down by US sanctions. From there own announcement at the time here:

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  • North London
  • repression
By solfed-iwa, 18 September, 2026

Liverpool - Reading group - The Chain Factory by Ōsugi Sakae

osugi sakaeLiverpool SolFed's famous reading group is back again, on Sunday 27th September at 18:00. This time we'll be discussing The Chain Factory by Ōsugi Sakae, who was murdered by the state this month in 1923. Read it here audio is below - email LiverpoolSolFed@gmail.com for the location

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By solfed-iwa, 14 September, 2026

Fire survivors and bereaved urge Barnet Group to ‘reconsider’ appointment of Laura Johnson, who pushed for cheaper contractor at Grenfell Tower

Well, well, well, just when you think society cannot become more debased, news comes along that Laura Johnson has been appointed permanent Director of Development and Property at the Barnet Group, which manages the borough's 13,000 council homes. This is the same Laura Johnson who, as Director of Housing at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, played a principal role in the cost-cutting that led to the Grenfell fire.

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  • housing
  • health and safety
  • corruption
  • exploitation
  • London
  • Manchester
By solfed-iwa, 14 September, 2026

London - Reading Group 25 – In the Crossfire (part one)

Reading Group 25 – In the Crossfire (part one)For our twenty-fifth reading group we will be reading the first half of In The Crossfire by Ngô Văn. From the blurb:

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By solfed-iwa, 13 September, 2026

London (September) Red and Black Club

September Red and Black ClubCome to the London Action Resource Centre (LARC), 61 Fieldgate Street E1 1ES, for the a monthly social and fundraiser. From 8pm until midnight you can meet up with other anarchists for a chill time to chat, gripe, and possibly even plot.

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By solfed-iwa, 25 August, 2026
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September drop-in session at LARC

Need advice about an issue with your boss or landlord? Want support organising in your workplace or community? Want to talk about anarchism or syndicalism? Want to meet members of the group and find out how SolFed works? Just want to say hi? Then come see us at one of these drop in sessions.

The next session will be on Thursday, September 17th, 19:00 – 20:00, at the London Action Resource Centre (LARC), 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 1ES. We will be in the upstairs rooms. If you can, please bring a donation for the space.

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Guides

Your rights at work

Why do we organise? Capitalism is shit, oppression is shit - but what can we at SolFed do about it?

Why do we organise?

This is our flag - it tells you what we stand for

this-is-our-flag

Stuff your boss (doesn't want you to know)

Stuff your boss (doesn't want you to know)

Direct Action #2 (2024)

Direct Action #2 (2024)

Stuff your sexist boss (doesn't want you to know) (2018)

Stuff your sexist boss (doesn't want you to know) (2018)

Is your cleaning job killing you? A guide to cleaners health and safety (2017)

Stuff your landlord (doesn't want you to know) (2016)

Stuff your landlord (doesn't want you to know) (2016)

A migrant's guide to Manchester (2016)

A migrant's guide to Manchester (2016)

Anarcho-syndicalism in Britain – a little history (2015)

Anarcho-syndicalism in Britain – a little history (2015)

Office worker’s health and safety - your rights and how to use them (2015)

Office worker’s health and safety - your rights and how to use them (2015)

A migrant's guide to London (2014)

A migrant's guide to London (2014)

Anarchism and Anarcho-syndicalism (Rudolf Rocker, 2014)

Anarchism and Anarcho-syndicalism (Rudolf Rocker, 2014)

Strike - a guide to walking out (2014)

Strike - a guide to walking out (2014)

Fighting for ourselves - anarcho-syndicalism and the class struggle (2012)

Fighting for ourselves - anarcho-syndicalism and the class struggle (2012)

Theory & Practice 1 - Workmates - direct action workplace organising on the London underground (2011)

Theory & Practice 1 - Workmates - direct action workplace organising on the London underground (2011)

The Economics of freedom (2003)

The Economics of freedom (2003)

A history of anarcho-syndicalism (SelfEd Collective, 24 unit series, 2001)

A history of anarcho-syndicalism (SelfEd Collective, 24 unit series, 2001)

Out of the frying pan, a critical look at works councils (1998)

Out of the frying pan, a critical look at works councils (1998)

Health and safety at work - an anarcho-syndicalist approach (1997)

Health and safety at work - an anarcho-syndicalist approach (1997)

Theory & Practice 2 - Anarcho-syndicalism in Puerto Real (1994)

Theory & Practice 2 - Anarcho-syndicalism in Puerto Real (1994)
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