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📸 OUT NOW ONLINE - our latest project, 'Photos from Below'. Here we publish several articles about and practicing "workers' photography". This project can be thought of as a visual wing of our worker’s inquiry method. Check it out below 👇
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An update from the #ubereats strike in East London. Workers are on strike against a 40% pay cut and have blocked the junction outside Uber HQ at Aldgate East
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Fresh out on our website - a report on how a wildcat strike unfolded at an Amazon warehouse, written by a worker on the ground ✊💪
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Workers are occupying Uber HQ! An update from inside with @United_PHD @IWGBunion @IWW_Couriers #FFS410
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Rank-and-file UCU members outside union HQ demanding strike action is restarted, after the union bureaucracy called a two week pause to strike action with no deal on the table. Build power in the workplace, win the reballot, strike until we win!
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We’ve just uploaded a new bulletin to our website, made up of reports from Amazon workers across Britain: Here we are out last night at Tilbury with it.
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THREAD: today we are VERY happy to launch our latest issue! 🚨 From the Workplace is a collection of workers inquiries written 'from below' They are written by workers supported through our Workers' Inquiry Fund Read it here: /1
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📢 Our latest Notes from Below issue it out now! 📰 As our prolonged ‘hot strike summer' continues, our latest issue brings together six inquiries by workers, from posties to nurses, critically reflecting on their struggles. 👇 Read and share now below!
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🚨 UCU closes office to avoid members 🚨 This is the text of an email set today closing the union offices early in order to avoid talking to members upset that our strike action has been called off when there is not yet a concrete deal on the table.
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📢 OUT NOW: Our latest issue, "Seeds of Struggle"! 🌱 With the rising threat climate change presents hanging over our heads, this issue brings together a range of workers inquiring into food production and distribution today. 👇 Read and share now below!
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👀 A sneak preview of our next issue: ‘In and Against the Union’ 🔥 Our next issue will be out soon, featuring six articles on the current strike wave written by workers on the ground of these struggles.
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Read the next University Worker bulletin ahead of tomorrows university strikes:
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Issue 3: The Worker and the Union Our third issue has launched today Featuring articles about Amazon, couriers, platform workers, renters unions, international struggles, hospitality, higher education, and more!
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Precarious workers at Goldsmiths university have begun a wildcat marking boycott.
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📢📢📢 Hourly paid teaching staff at Goldsmiths have officially announced a refusal to carry out any further unpaid labour including a refusal to submit grades to the department. Please read and circulate our press release. 📢📢📢
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Big demonstration in support of the Palestinian struggle at the Israeli embassy in London tonight #Palestine #PalestineResists
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NfB editor @jamie_woodcock on the BBC to discuss the importance of #FFS410 and why fast food and food platform workers are taking on their multi-millionaire bosses.
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📝Over the past 4 years, we've published 4 books, 12 bulletins, and 16 issues w/ 355 articles by 230 authors 🔥We've reached 200,000 people w/ half a million views 📣Now, we're launching a print subscription to get Notes from Below out to more readers:
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Trade union bloc getting underway at the #Palestine march in London
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Paulo Galo, leader of the Antifascist Couriers in Brazil, was arrested for setting fire to a statue known for representing colonialism, racism and slavery in Brazil. His wife, Gessica, was arrested, though she wasn't there Sending solidarity from the UK #LibertemGaloeGessica
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QUARENTA E OITO HORAS! São dois dias de uma prisão ARBITRÁRIA e ILEGAL. Não vão nos calar! Não descansaremos até termos Galo e Gessica aqui fora, conosco. Até que #LibertemGaloeGessica #Equipe
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🚨SHARE EVERYWHERE - DEMO 5PM TOMORROW @ UCU HQ We need to make sure that decisions in the union are taken by members. If decisions are made without us, we have to find ways to have our voices heard. Join us tomorrow @ 5pm, outside UCU HQ (NW1 7LH)!
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'I want Marxists to become Luddites, but I want tech workers to become Luddites as well. I think many of them already are' Nfb Editor @jamie_woodcock interviewed @gavinmuellerphd about his new @VersoBooks book
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🚨 A response to the "deal" and calling off of strike action 🚨 "Let us be crystal clear: this is shit" Demo outside of UCU head offices 5pm on Monday 🚩🪧
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😱 The Coming Indigestion 😱 The full editorial to our next issue is available to read now. Using workers' inquiries into food production, we speculating on what a revolutionary transformation could look like on a burning planet. Full issue out soon...
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We've published an ebook with the new Workers Inquiry Network on "Struggle in a Pandemic" Featuring contributions: AnkerMag @PlatEnqMil @actazone , Into the Black Box and Officina Primo Maggio, Invisíveis Goiânia, & a new translation of Sergio Bologna!
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Belgian Deliveroo workers kicked their bosses out of their office and held a 48 hour occupation. What happened next, and where is the struggle going now?
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Big numbers in Shoreditch for the @IWGBunion @IWGB_CLB Deliveroo riders strike! Setting off for a ride around the city now! #Rights4Riders #TakenForARide
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Early morning rank and file electricians demo today in Canary Wharf #No2ESO part of campaign against deskilling #SparksWork Including flash occupation of the Balfour Beatty site 🚩✊
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🎆 An end of year gift from Notes from Below Our latest issue "The Political Leap: Communist Strategy Today" is out online today! Read now below 👇
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📢 The editorial for our forthcoming issue, “The Political Leap” is now available online! Read “The Organisational Question” below, our contribution to how workers’ inquiry and class composition can inform militant intervention and organisation today!
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How do we build indefinite action? 🤔 In The University Worker, we discuss how indefinite strikes happen and why it is key to winning the dispute #ucuRISING We have a time-limited strike mandate, so let's get moving, build effective action, and win 🔥
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Update from the Uber drivers strike here at the @Uber office in London, third time here in a week 🔥🔥 #Ustrike
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📓☭ Our new issue 'The Political Leap: Communist Strategy Today' will be going out to subscribers soon. Subscribe now for a copy to be sent to your door as soon as we get them from the printers, with a full online version (and launch party!) to follow in the new year!📓☭
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As Palestinians call a general strike against Israeli crimes, workers in Britain should take the solidarity movement into their workplaces. Here is what you can do: #GazaUnderAttack #SaveSheikhJarrah #PalestineOnStrike
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📢NEW online: A bulletin written by riders and supporters on the massive delivery strikes which took place on 2 Feb. We'll be circulating thousands of copies of this across London in the next few days. Please print and circulate to get the word out!
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🚨We've launched a petition to call on UCU to immediately call for indefinite action at the start of term in 2023 🔥If plans have not been made or agreed, we demand that members and branches get to decide the next steps 📝 Sign here:
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This Thursday will see an national alliance of workers from across the fast food and platform sectors all come out on strike at the same time. What's going on, and where has all this come from? Details of all public calls for solidarity included #FFS410
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NEW on our website: a translation of Panzieri’s unpublished text ‘Co-research and Workers’ Control’ Read below ⬇️⬇️
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Troublemakers at Work ( @Troublem8kers ) has started! First plenary tackling the question what does it mean to have a rank and file orientation? Sol Khan, a bus driver, is talking about the ongoing First Bus strike in Oldham - solidarity ✊
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🔔 Hot off the press 🔔 Seeds of Struggle: Food in a Time of Crisis Subscribe to get a copy sent to your door:
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📢 Calling all worker photographers! 📸 We are looking for photo correspondents for our new project, who are interested in carrying out a visual worker’s inquiry in their workplace. 🗓️ Join our workshop at @maydayrooms on 1st June @ 6pm. Sign up below!
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We've just published "No Union Is a Problem: Wildcat Strike Season of Gig Workers in Indonesia" by @arifnovianto_id It explores the dynamics of four strikes in June 2021 and how workers are organising
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We're hosting a talk with Andrew Anastasi on his translation of Tronti’s writings in Weapons of Organisation on Friday 5th March at 6pm UK 🚩💬
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We are appalled to hear what has happened at Goldsmiths to long-time campaigner against casualisation, and fellow editor of Notes from Below, Roberto Mozzachiodi. We call on Goldsmith to immediately rectify his unjust treatment by the university.
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We're out on the picket line at UCL, supporting workers on day three of strike action against fire-and-rehire Solidarity @IWGBUoL ✊✊
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New issue of Notes from Below has made it to international workers day in Paris!
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An open invitation to participate in a new collaborative inquiry 🚨 We believe this is an urgent task If we are to make sense of our current moment and move beyond it, we need to start here Share within your unions, with your colleagues and friends 🛑
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🔊 Next up in The University Worker we have a piece from the co-chairs of Queen Mary UCU 🔥 How to stop a university: the case for indefinite action!
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What is the role of housing in the class struggle? The next issue of NFB is here ✊ 🏙️
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Open Source is Not Enough by @substack has just been added to issue 2! "The open source movement has fundamentally changed how software gets written. But in the process, corporations have been given a vast gift of free labor."
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The trade union bloc is getting ready to march at the London demo #Palestine
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New on Notes from Below 🚩 "The Rise of Gig Worker Protests in Indonesia" by @arifnovianto_id Notes on Transport Platform Drivers' Resistance Against Precarity during the COVID-19 Pandemic 🛵✊
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📢Some of us will be involved in this event bringing together workers, union organizers, students, and activists to address workplace casualisation. Sign up here:
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🚨A call for solidarity from ex-GKN Factory Workers in Italy! Workers, in permanent assembly in their factory since 2021, are now facing the destruction of their efforts to repurpose the factory under collective control! Read, share and support!
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We've just published the initial findings of the Class Composition Project It covers the first analysis of our survey, identifying key issues that have come up & some surprises! We're also launching a new worker writing fund (more details in the link)
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We are distributing free copies of our latest issue From the Workplace If you can't cover the costs of postage, don't worry! Fill in the form below 👇
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We've taken on the *huge* task of mapping the economy Through this we will devise strategy, organise and, ultimately, win 👊 We need your help 🚨 Please do the survey and share it with your union branch / friends / family
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🚩Our latest issue, "Karl Marx's Workers' Inquiry", is out now! In this issue, Clark McAllister makes the case for a radical reappraisal of workers’ inquiry, and assesses archival research to demonstrate its central role within Marx’s political project.
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From the Workplace ↗️ and now back to the workplace ↙️ Design by the amazing Robbie Blundell @_____rb__
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A press conference about to begin to announce the formation of the Transnational Courier Federation, made up of 34 unions and collectives from 12 states. Power to the workers! ✊🛵🔥
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Following the call last week with @CoronaContract and other activists, an open letter has been written to @DrJoGrady & newly elected @ucu NEC members It calls for immediate actions to defend casualised workers: if you don't do it, we will. Sign here:
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We've got more copies of From the Workplace, a collection of worker writing we published last year 📝✊ You can get a paper copy here for donation plus postage 📮 and the individual articles are online and the collection as a pdf too:
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"In sum, we must think about how IT and tech workers can strike." An interview with Infoprolet��rios, a radical Brazilian group organising tech and IT workers, by @AutomatedFully
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Do you want to start organising at work? Notes from Below have launched a "workers' inquiry fund" to support workers writing about their work and start organising. We explain here why we think worker writing matters and how we can support new projects:
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This is not what a democratic union looks like. The demo will still be going ahead at 5pm at Carlow St. Even if our own union intends to shut us out, we'll take the chance to discuss how the rank-and-file can take back control of the dispute.
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The transcript from "Towards an Organized Tech Industry—Part One" is now available! This panel discussion, on organising tech workers, was co-hosted by @techworkersco at @LeftForum in June. It's quite long, so we've included screenshots in this thread:
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🔥We're relaunching our university bulletin ahead of the UCU strikes next week! We're plan to use it to get reports from branches, as well as discuss ideas for escalation. Read our kick-off article below, and submit a report via the form within it⬇️⬇️⬇️
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We're at The World Transformed #TWT21 this year. Had a great session on workers inquiry and class composition this morning, now doing a stall. Come by and get some leaflets and a copy of From the Workplace!
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"Deliveroo workers launch new strike wave" by @CallumCant1 The food platform has been plunged into chaos by a rapidly-spreading series of wildcat strikes
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🚩New on our blog, a commentary on the current struggle in France by FX Hutteau! 'The French Unions Strike Back: On the front lines of the struggle against Macron's pension reform'
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Merry Christmarx from us to all our readers🎄❄️
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🔴 Join us on 7th November for "Workers’ Inquiry and Co-Research: History, theory, and practice". This workshop, co-hosted with @clasp_qmul , will focus on the history, theory, and political implications of militant workers’ inquiry. Register now below:
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Join us 5pm on Sat 9th July at @maydayrooms for a launch event of Clark McAllister’s "Karl Marx’s Workers’ Inquiry: International History, Reception, and Responses", published by Notes from Below. The event will be followed by a social, with copies of the book available to buy📚
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📢NEW online: Delivery Strike Bulletin #2 on the national courier strikes on 14th Feb Reports from: London Blackpool Bristol Stourbridge, West Midlands We'll be distributing these in the lead up to the next strike: Friday 23 Feb 17:00 - 22:00.
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📣 The latest University Worker is online now! 🚩 Keep the strikes going! 📖 Read about the non-deal and what next, as well as a piece from Early Career Academics at Royal Holloway on democracy in the union 🗳️
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📰🗞️✊ During July we'll be publishing reports from labour struggles in North American universities in our mini-issue 'Correspondences from Upsurge'. The issue includes contributions from organisers at @geo3550 , @GOLDartmouth , @TUGSA_6290 , @ucsb4cola
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We've just published a piece by @Ari_Tassinari and Lorenzo Cini. Insorgiamo: The GKN Struggle and the Resurgence of Working Class Militancy in Italy
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How to write a workplace bulletin 📕 Practical session happening now at @Troublem8kers Featuring The University Worker, Marked Abstent!, Arts & labour as well as bulletins from the @maydayrooms archive
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We've published the second part of a workers inquiry at #Amazon during the pandemic: "Social-Distancing and Alienation" The final part covers the pressures of the working during Covid-19 and workplace resistance
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📢📢📢 Introducing our latest bulletin 'Arts and Labour' - a cultural workers bulletin 🎨📰 Reports from casuals at the Barbican, @PCSCultureGroup , workers at Whitechapel, event update from @ual_j4w and statement from Art Workers for Palestine Scotland.
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🚜 ‘A History of Farmworkers’ Struggles’, in our latest issue. In this article, Dante Philp and Matthew trace an outline of the neglected history of farmworkers’ struggles, from the early 1800s up to the present day. 🔗 Read the full article now below:
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We interviewed Riya Al'Sanah about the recent general strike in Palestine ✊🇵🇸 It covers the origins of the strike, the experience of organising across Palestine, the next steps, and how international solidarity can support the struggle
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Milei, the new president of Argentina, intends to rip up the social contract and start again. His attempts at aggressive reform have already provoked a general strike, and popular resistance is only getting stronger.
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📖 Read now: Engineers, Materialism, and the Communist Method In this essay, Nick Chavez ( @DFManufracture ) explores the relationship between engineering - both as an abstract process and as a profession made up of real people - and the communist project:
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RCN picket line at Guy's Hospital 🔥🔥🔥
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Now online: "Burnt out: organising in the charity sector" A detailed account of the campaign at ASIRT
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'The unity of this social diversity, beyond the rejection of Macron and his centrist politics lies in a generalized feeling of having had enough'. Co-published with @viewpointmag , a text by @PlatEnqMil on the class composition of the yellow vest movement.
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In ‘London’s Food Scene: Flexibility, Diversity, Precarity’, London chef Eric Jeffers surveys shifts in the organisation and experience of restaurant work since Covid.
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Boots knows what's good
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‘Sorry To Bother You’ and tech worker organising
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The Notes from Below website is now live! You can find Issue 1 "No Politics Without Inquiry" here: #workersinquiry #classcomposition #workerism cc @jamie_woodcock @CallumCant1 @sethnotes @sica_trne @lydiakathleenh
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📢 A reminder: we are looking for people interested in carrying out a visual worker’s inquiry in their workplace, for our new project, Photos from Below. 📷 Join our workshop at @maydayrooms on 1st June @ 6pm. 👇 Sign up via the eventbrite link below!
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“It is important to recognise the constraints which regulate trade union activity today as products of history: a history of class struggle.“ Read “Syndicalism and the New Limits of Trade Unionism” from our latest issue now below 👇
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📄 The next University Worker bulletin is out now, featuring reports from the picket line & more! 📣 Join our open rank-and-file organising call on Monday 28th Nov @ 7pm, on what we do next in this dispute. 🖨️ Distribute the call and bulletin tomorrow:
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Joining the #Palestine solidarity demonstration in London - it's looking massive already
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Get involved in the Notes from Below Class Composition Project, and take our survey about your experiences of work - and share widely!
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Issue 4.2 is here! In October food platform workers from 34 organisations for the founding meeting of the Transnational Federation of Couriers. We interviewed workers from across Europe to get a better understanding of the dynamics of the struggle.
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Demonstration leaving the Uber HQ in London #UberEatsStrike #FFS410
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🚩 Strike assembly 🚩 How do university workers win? Join us tonight @ 5pm Pelican House, Cambridge Heath Road We'll be launching our new book on HE struggles in the US, Correspondences from the Upsurge' 📕 🥳 Open to all UCU members
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We've republished a piece on the Trendyol platform workers strike in Turkey by @Umut_Sendikasi You can read more about the strike and victory here:
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