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  • The Sunday 29th June picket of the FACT in Liverpool saw a dozen local wobblies and other activists come out at very short notice, in support of London Ritzy workers striking against Picturehouse cinemas for the living wage. We did everything we could to amplify their call – issued through the BECTU union – for a national boycott of the chain until the massively profitable company allow their workers to live decently. This is far more than can be said for Unite the union and their general secretary Len McCluskey, who planned to cross their picket line to – irony of ironies – see a new documentary about socialist novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. This was only cancelled at the eleventh hour when Unite got wind of our action.<--break- />

  • The IWW condemns the intensification of immigration raids across the UK under Operation Centurion. We believe that all workers, regardless of their place of origin or legal status, need to support one another in order to fight the common enemy; the present system that upholds the interests of business and other elites at the expense of ordinary working and unemployed people.

  • London and Clydeside IWW Events: New Forms of Worker Organization - Book Launch and talk with Manny Ness - Wednesday 18th June 7PM at Fred Paton Centre near st Georges X U in Glasgow, and Tuesday 24th June 7PM at 88 Fleet St., London.

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