How to kill an Act of Parliament – Jack Ray
Submitted by Councils and Co... on Aug 23 2017 07:54
The story of the legislation that led to the jailing of the Pentonville Five, the 1971 Industrial Relations Act. Published as follows during 2012 in the Black Flag, issue 235.
Racial discrimination in employment? The Bristol bus boycott of 1963
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 11 2017 11:49
A student dissertation with lots of information about the 1963 boycott of Bristol's buses against the ban on recruiting workers of colour enforced by the TGWU union and the state-owned Bristol Omnibus Company.
Black and white on the buses: the 1963 colour bar dispute in Bristol
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 11 2017 10:17
A detailed pamphlet by Madge Dresser on the Bristol bus boycott, when a mass campaign defeated the TGWU union's bar on black and Asian people working in bus crews.
St Mary's Hospital (Harrow Road) work-in and occupation 1981
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 26 2017 11:53
Contemporary information about workers at a London hospital taking over their workplace in protest at bed cuts and closure.
Before the 'unity' of Grunwick: 40 years since the Imperial Typewriters strike - Evan Smith
Submitted by Steven. on May 7 2016 11:37
Article written 40 years on about the strike of predominantly East African Asian women in Leicester, with information about the relationships of the unions and the left to the strikers.
The Imperial Typewriters strike, 1974 - Ron Ramdin
Submitted by Steven. on May 7 2016 11:30
An account of the three-month strike by hundreds of mostly East African Asian women workers at the Imperial Typewriters plant in Leicester, England. Although unsuccessful, it was a key moment in galvanising Asian working class resistance in the UK.
Jolting memory: Nightcleaners recalled - Sheila Rowbotham
Submitted by Steven. on Oct 24 2015 10:17
Sheila Rowbotham recalls both the campaigns to organise female night cleaners in London from 1970, and the 1975 film by Marc Karlin about the same.
The headscarf revolutionaries - DD Johnston
Submitted by DD on May 11 2015 09:54
D.D. Johnston reviews Brian Lavery’s The Headscarf Revolutionaries, an account of a spontaneous campaign by fishermen’s wives in Hull, which following the 1968 triple-trawler disaster forced major changes to UK shipping laws.
Workers Playtime on the miners' strike
Submitted by Dan Radnika on Apr 5 2015 11:53
Slightly too late for the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the 1984-85 miners' strike... Here are all the Workers' Playtime articles about the strike and related issues, with PDF and Kindle versions.
How to kill an act of parliament: solidarity, agency and the dockers in the 1960s and 1970s
Submitted by wojtek on Feb 4 2015 22:42
A paper by Jack Saunders on how an unofficial network of workplace union reps/dockworkers defeated the 1971 Industrial Relations Act.
