demonstrations, pickets and protests

There will be an anarchist bloc at the upcoming October 4th march to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street. During this battle, people from all over London came together to drive the British Union of Fascists and the police that protected them out of the east end. This was made possible by decades of previous organising in workplaces and the community that built working class solidarity, including between migrant Jewish garment workers and migrant Irish dock workers.

Yesterday we delivered a letter to the company ALL3 in London on behalf of our comrades in the Serbian Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative (ASI). ALL3 in Serbia have taken advantage of a worker’s precarious immigration status, ultimately leading to their wrongful dismissal, and we stand in solidarity with our comrades against this unfair treatment. Full letter below:

There will be two linked actions happening on the 26th of October. First, there is a call-out to all workers in the London and surrounding areas to help extend solidarity with members of the UVW during upcoming strike. Over 70, mainly migrant, security guards who are UVW members and employed by Wilson James across the Natural History and Science Museums have returned an overwhelming vote (96%) in favour of strike action following a recent ballot. Support their picket at 10am on Saturday 26 October, London SW7.

Out of the 2.3 million Palestinians seeking refuge in Rafah, over 450,000 have fled the area since May 6th due to Israel's continued attacks on the final place of refuge for Palestinians.

Worse yet, Israel's fascist regime has now begun putting Palestinians in what can best be described as concentration camps, showing Israel taking yet another step towards a total genocide of Palestinians. The only healthcare Palestinians in these camps have recieved are arm and leg amputations, which come as a result of handcuffs being tied around innocent Palestinians so tight that their limbs die, requiring amputation.

SolFed stands in solidarity with the students of @universityofleeds who refuse to back down from their university encampment, and with students nationwide doing the same.

If you haven't yet, it's time to stop listening to Israel's propaganda, and start looking at their actions.

The struggle of antifascism against fascist states like Israel is a fight which SolFed refuses to give up. Stand up against this genocide while there is still time to stand against it. Together, the working people are unstoppable.

In solidarity, SolFed Leeds. Ⓐ🏴

Our members picketing IKEA this month in solidarity with our comrades in the CNT-AIT. An injury to one is an injury to all! #solfed #iwa #cntait #solidarity #anarchist

A tenant renting with a major local letting agent won back the entirety of their “0 deposit” charges after two pickets of the letting agency. A member of Brighton SolFed recently moved out of their rented property and was hit with a number of absurd end of tenancy charges. They had entered into a “0 deposit” tenancy, managed by a third party company who were chasing up our member for these costs. Disgracefully, the company were charging a significant fee just to challenge these costs, which forced our member into paying these charges, despite disagreeing with them all. 

We reject the Anti-Refugee Bill

CJ Barbers yet again resorted to violence against union members on Thursday as our campaign to get our member’s unpaid wages back continues.

In a remarkable demonstration of aggression, the owner Hamid Karam and the manager Cyrus Shabani smashed up their own wooden chairs in the middle of the road, wielded the remains at picketers, pushed and hit multiple people, and choked one member before throwing him across the street in front of traffic. They also snatched members’ phones out of their hands as they were filming the disgusting behaviour, smashing one phone in the process.

Fortunately, none of our members have been seriously hurt. Nobody other than the manager and owner of CJ Barbers participated in any acts of violence. The incident caused traffic in the street to be blocked for around fifteen minutes.