in this issue 4-5 editorial: Savage Cuts in Spending - Realities and Possibilities 6-7 Hugging Bankers - the rehabilitation of thieves and their narrow self-interest 8-9 Tilting at Windmils - the Vestas workers’ occupation, climate change and class struggle 10 Scabs Are Rubbish - Leeds bin workers on strike against pay cuts
A Contradiction at the Heart of Chaos - regulation of global financial markets to solve boom and bust is a non-starter
Occupy and Defy - the Visteon workers’ struggle and their union
Lewisham Occupation - a community fighting to save its primary school
Fujitsu Attack on Pensions
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - immigrant cleaners’: the “hard-to-organise” are self-organising
Breaking Isolation - domestic abuse and workplace support
The Big Green Con - seeing through the sham of “green” capitalism
our history: The Great Dock Strike of 1889 - for the anarchist movement, a significant event that turned abstract talk into what ultimately became anarcho-syndicalism
No Platform for Fascism - the BNP, despite “ordinary people” voting for it, is a fascist party and must continue to be confronted as such
have your say: Anarchism & Crime/ Crime / the Miami Five / Left Luggage/ English National Resistance
A Rebellious Tradition - is there cause for optimism amid greed, corruption & inequality?
international: the CNT vs. Ryanair/ General Strike for the Amazon/ Killing for Profit
reviews: Paul Mason - Live Working or Die Fighting and Meltdown/ Kate Sharpley Library - A Grand Cause; The Federación Anarquista Uruguaya and Salvador Puig Antich & the MIL
closer look: Seeing Sense in the Age of Stupid - alienation, power and the case for social transformation
DA resources: Solidarity Federation booklets, contacts, information and friends & neighbours
This dispute arose after the Ardbride strike, and once again was initially publicised by Edinburgh DAM. It also reached a successful conclusion, unlike the one we’d put so much effort into supporting over the previous year.
In September 1987, Tricia Jennings, a worker at Burton’s in Edinburgh, became pregnant and a few days later was rushed to hospital with a threatened miscarriage. She informed her employer about her situation and at first they seemed sympathetic. Tricia spent the next 6 weeks fighting to save her baby, but when she returned to work on 9th November she found she’d been sacked. Everyone else in the ship knew 2 weeks before Tricia did. No reason was given, though subsequently Burton’s tried to claim she was sacked for “absenteeism” or because her work was “below standard”. However, Tricia had had a certificate for the absence and had passed her six month probation.
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