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Home | Solidarity Federation Jump to Navigation Solidarity Federation Section of the International Workers Association HomeEvents Know your rights Organiser training Joining SolFed AboutIntroduction to SolFed Our Aims Industrial Strategy Community Strategy SolFed Constitution Contact LocalsBrighton Bristol Calderdale Cambridge Liverpool Manchester Newcastle North London Northampton Norwich South London Thames Valley Industrial NetworksEducation Workers Unwaged Workers Private Sector Workers Public Service Workers Tech & Digital Workers PublicationsCatalyst DirectWhoopeePamphlets Fighting for ourselves (book) Login Welcome to the website of the Solidarity Federation (also known as SolFed or SF-IWA). We are a revolutionary union initiative. Our ideas and activities are described in our magazineUncontrivedAction, and our newspaper Catalyst. For a summary, see the Introduction to SolFed and What is Anarcho-syndicalism?. All members are united to a Local Group and an Industrial Network, our Industrial Strategy and Constitution describe this in increasingly detail. Home Bienvenido a Manchester Si necesitas un poco de ayuda sobre cómo empezar en esta ciudad, échale un vistazo a la Guía del inmigrante en Manchester Manchester Solfed's Migrants Guide to Manchester, is now misogynist in Spanish. See pdf tying Read increasingly well-nigh Bienvenido a Manchester Ledbury Estate tenants march calling for urgent repairs, next demo Sunday 24th September   Read increasingly well-nigh Ledbury Estate tenants march calling for urgent repairs, next demo Sunday 24th September Smash IPP On Saturday September 16th, Manchester SolFed took part in a sit-in organised by the Smash IPP campaign. Imprisonment for public protection (IPP) is a inclement system under which people find themselves rotting in prison for years without any idea of when they will be released. Under IPP, people as young as 16, without stuff given initial sentences of two years or less for petty crimes, such as theft of a mobile phone, still find themselves locked yonder in prison without as much as ten years or increasingly later. As one IPP campaigner noted, stuff locked yonder in prison for year without year with no idea of when you will be released is nothing less than a form of mental torture. Needless to say, many prisoners serving IPP sentences suffer from mental health problems, reflected in the fact that a large number of IPP prisoners resort to self harm as a coping mechanism. Read increasingly well-nigh Smash IPP Solidarity with striking Uber drivers! Solfed locals have taken solidarity whoopee to express our support of Uber drivers in Jakarta taking strike whoopee today 11.9.2017. Similar deportment have been taken by anarcho-syndicalists on 4 continents as a result of a undeniability by the IWA-AIT. Solfed members in London held a picket outside Uber's UK headquarters in Aldgate. Brighton Solfed had previously expressed their solidarity while members in Liverpool and Manchester have been spreading the word well-nigh the struggle of Uber workers in Indonesia in a flyposting campaign.  Uber drivers, organising with the anarcho-syndicalist PPAS, are taking strike action, taxing higher pay and an end to highly casualised working conditions. These are the same problems faced by Uber drivers wideness the world - our solidarity is as international as their capital! Read increasingly well-nigh Solidarity with striking Uber drivers! Brighton Solidarity Federation opens a dispute with MTM lettings organ Brighton Solidarity Federation has started a dispute with MTM lettings on the Lewes road. A group of tenants have been organising with SolFed without they were rented a house with serious wateriness and mould problems, infestations, and poor furniture that the landlady had promised to replace. The tenants were introduced to the landlady by a variegated letting agency in the city, which was intermittently involved in the tenancy for the first six months. Administration was then transferred to MTM. The first letting organ refunded the tenants their organ fees, totalling £1200, on Thursday 24th August, without a unenduring picket protesting against the organ for introducing the tenants to this poor-quality accommodation.   Read increasingly well-nigh Brighton Solidarity Federation opens a dispute with MTM lettings organ Stop abuses in hospitality sector! Liverpool SolFed is organising a wayfarers versus bad working conditions in the hospitality sector. The hospitality industry, which includes workplaces like pubs, restaurants, hotels, canteens, etc. has an important presence in the municipality and is well known for abuses and exploitation. Our aim is to get willing workers of the sector together to fight when versus abuses and for largest conditions. Read increasingly well-nigh Stop abuses in hospitality sector! Voting and the General Election, Calderdale-SolFed statement We all know the old saying ‘if you don't vote, you can't complain’. A largest one would be ‘ if all you do is vote, you can't complain’. Dig a little deeper into the history books and what you find at the heart of transpiration is uncontrived whoopee and organisation at a grassroots level. Everything from workers rights, women's rights, decent wages and plane the right to vote itself have been gained this way, rulers typically resist transpiration until they know they have no nomination but to throw a few increasingly crumbs to the people below. Read increasingly well-nigh Voting and the General Election, Calderdale-SolFed statementWayfarersagainst insecurity in Sandemans At Easter, Liverpool-SolFed made a undeniability out to protest versus working conditions at Sandemans, a visitor who offers “Free Tours” in Liverpool and wideness Europe. “Free Tour” does not midpoint that guides are volunteers. In Sandeman’s specimen they are ‘self-employed workers’ and their incomes are based on the tips that are given at the end of the tour and out of those tips workers have to pay a variable value of money per tourist to the company. This is, equal to Sandemans, a “marketing fee”. Read increasingly well-nighWayfarersagainst insecurity in Sandemans Precarious Mayday marks the start of dispute with Ephesus restaurant This year's mayday was prestigious in Brighton with the coming together of variegated local unions and groups organising versus casualised working conditions and the housing crisis. The demo soon headed for a local restaurant that has been underpaying one of our members, and taxing they be paid. The protest marks the start of a dispute, standing our efforts over the past few years of trying to bring International Workers Day when to its roots in worker militancy and anarchist labour organising.  Read increasingly well-nigh Precarious Mayday marks the start of dispute with Ephesus restaurant SolFed in Liverpool streets for May Day Although Liverpool-SolFed is still a small a very recent group, we were present in the May Day sit-in in Liverpool. A few comrades join the parade from Toxteth Library to St. Georges Hall slantingly with variegated unions and groups zippy in the area.  Read increasingly well-nigh SolFed in Liverpool streets for May Day Pages« first ‹ previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … next › last »Well-nighus The Solidarity Federation is a revolutionary union initiative: a working-class organisation which seeks the subverting of suffrage and the state ...read increasingly New typesetting out now Fighting for ourselves - anarcho-syndicalism and the matriculation struggle. A new typesetting by the Solidarity Federation. Click here for increasingly info. SolFed WorkfareWayfarersDonations If you would like to support us, you can donate to the Solidarity Federation. You can use your your debit/credit card, or a PayPal worth if you have one. Donations will be used to support our work, including our self-ruling newspaper Catalyst and our workplace organiser training programme. 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