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WHO WE ARE

We are SolFed, your local Anarcho-Syndicalist Solidarity Federation. We have locals across the UK, and worldwide as part of the International Workers’ Association. We’ve been around since 1950, so you can be sure we know what we’re doing.

WHAT WE DO

• We fight for workplace rights
• We fight for your rights when the landlord tries to screw you
• We help organise actions for the rights of LGBTQ+, racial minorities, migrants, workers, & more!

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It’s June, and rainbow flags are everywhere. 

For one month only, every jailer [1], death dealer [2] and sweatshop owner [3] wants to be an ally. This pride month, us queer workers are looking at our bosses. We see their rainbow flags, and we do not buy the act. Our bosses kill us [4], force us into poverty [5], and sexually harass us [6]. They steal our time, the best parts of our minds, our bodies and lives. 

They waste our very selves on shit that doesn’t matter, just to make us earn the right to live [7]. As queer workers, we feel a special kind of fury when the boot on our throats has a rainbow sticker on it. And if we’re queer, they pay us less. ...

Today (Friday 29 June), Iain Duncan Smith went to Bootle in what was planned as a low-key visit to Department for Work and Pensions offices. Instead it was the scene of a lively picket where local anarchists joined trade unionists from the area to oppose the capinet minister's arrival.

Obviously none of the ministers from the current government are popular with most working class people. Duncan Smith deserves particular attention because of his role in workfare - including lying in parliament about the "success" of the schemes.

    The portentous development of our present economic system, leading to a mighty accumulation of social wealth in the hands of privileged minorities and to a constant repression of the great masses of people, prepared the way for the present political and social reaction and befriended it in every way. It sacrificed the general interests of human society to the private interests of individuals, and thus systematically undermined the true relationship between men. People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to him/her the blessings of higher intellectual culture. Where industry is everything, where labour loses its ethical importance and man is nothing, there begins the realm of ruthless economic despotism, whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism.

Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958)