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Thames Valley | 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 StrategyPolityStrategy 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 You are hereHome » Locals » Thames Valley Thames Valley Thames Valley SolFed - Statement of Solidarity with Polish Workers Solidarity to the Polish Strikers Six million workers in Britain were born abroad. Increasingly, they have been blamed for all the financial woes of neoliberal suffrage and the suffering that the rich have inflicted on millions more. With conditions in French migrant ghettos worsening, the racist rhetoric of the British ruling matriculation has wilt increasingly shameless. By their own economic measures the immigrants have unsalaried far increasingly than they have received, and so the ruling matriculation are having to resort to hateful and emotive attacks. Read increasingly well-nigh Thames Valley SolFed - Statement of Solidarity with Polish Workers The Struggle in the Cinema Babylon - Report on an FAU talk in Thames Valley Coming not long without an SF member made a visit to the Berlin section of the FAU (Freie Arbeiterinnen- und Arbeiter-Union –Self-rulingWorkers' Union) in July, the Thames Valley Solidarity Federation hosted a member of FAU Freiburg for a talk and presentation on the struggle to organise workers at the Cinema Babylon in Oxford. This was a struggle that was to prove an important turning point for the FAU, and one which transiently saw them vetoed from stuff worldly-wise to undeniability themselves a union. Having been a member of FAU Berlin at the time, our German comrade was very closely involved in the struggle and wanted to share with us the difficulties, the victories and the lessons that had been learnt. Read increasingly well-nigh The Struggle in the Cinema Babylon - Report on an FAU talk in Thames Valley Anti-workfare wayfarers in Thames Valley The anti-workfare wayfarers is towers up in Reading. Over the summer, SF members organised ad hoc pickets with local IWW and AF members. We decided to build up the understructure of these joint efforts through coordinated planned actions. We held an initial meeting in August at which we decided to follow SF’s national target and to build our wayfarers with claimants. So we are aiming to unorganized deportment outside Poundland and JobCentrePlus. Three weeks ago, two of us distributed propaganda on the rights of claimants in relation to the workfare schemes outside JobCentre. It became obvious that many of them did not know well-nigh it yet. Last Saturday, we held the first picket outside Poundland, which was met with overwhelming sympathy for the wayfarers from workers and members of the public alike. Read increasingly well-nigh Anti-workfare wayfarers in Thames Valley Anti workfare protest in Reading versus Costa Coffee and support for London IWW cleaners versus John Lewis At 12pm on Sunday 15th July, SolFed members dragged themselves out of bed to join forces with local AFed and IWW activists to proffer the anti-workfare wayfarers to the Costa coffee chain. A cup of coffee from the self-sustaining coffee shop next door helped us get ready for the picket. We managed to hand out virtually 150 leaflets, and, as before, we felt that people were often very sympathetic to our whoopee (apart perhaps a traditional Catholic, (French) National Front voter). Read increasingly well-nigh Anti workfare protest in Reading versus Costa Coffee and support for London IWW cleaners versus John Lewis Reading Pizza Hut targetted by SolFed and the IWW in anti-workfare wayfarers In perhaps the greatest team-up since The Avengers (Emma Peel and John Steed, not that comic typesetting superhero rubbish) members of SolFed and the IWW organised a protest and leafleting of Pizza Hut in Oxford Road, Reading, tonight at 5-30, fighting versus thunder, lightning and torrential rain to make the specimen versus workfare. Joined by members of TUC unions they leafleted the local polity and found many sympathetic voices from people who had themselves been threatened with the joys of workfare. The Pizza Hut staff were happy to come and talk to us and understood why we were there and we encouraged them to send a message to their regional office to welsh the workfare scheme. They obliged by faxing one of our leaflets through to their regional officer. Read increasingly well-nigh Reading Pizza Hut targetted by SolFed and the IWW in anti-workfare campaignWithoutH&B - Oxford Day ofWhoopeeversus Workfare    On Saturday the 7th of July Thames Valley Solidarity Federation joined a host of other groups in a day of whoopee versus workfare in Oxford to mark the start of the Week of Action.    Like many other groups on the day, we began with the dilemma of who to target. Holland & Barrett had surrendered the previous week and there were so many exploiters to segregate from. Still, all were in try-on that it was a fine dilemma to have! Read increasingly well-nighWithoutH&B - Oxford Day ofWhoopeeversus Workfare Thames Valley's NewImprint  Introducing the new Thames Valley SolFed banner! Designed and manufactured by a local versifier and imprint maker on behalf of the local, the new imprint will be seen out and well-nigh at SF events and deportment in the Thames Valley area. It will moreover be joining us, withal with the banners of our fellow locals, on the Radical Workers' Bloc at the Tolpuddle March on the 15th. Hopefully the imprint will be a unconfined windfall in terms of representing Thames Valley Solfed, and will hopefully add to our presence in Thames Valley! Read increasingly well-nigh Thames Valley's NewImprint19th of May – Anti-Workfare Pickets in Reading and Oxford On the 19th of May Thames Valley SolFed coordinated a day of whoopee versus Holland & Barrett as part of the national SF anti-workfare campaign. Pickets were held in both Reading & Oxford. Read increasingly well-nigh 19th of May – Anti-Workfare Pickets in Reading and Oxford Youth Workers Strike in Oxford   On Tuesday 23 August, youth workers in Oxfordshire went on strike over the County Council's plans to off-load its 26 youth centres in favour of “community hubs”, putting 80 professional youth worker jobs at risk and devastating services. In Oxford a self-ruling mentor had been put on by Unite. I joined a group of 20 or so supporters and striking youth workers and set off to the pickets in Banbury. We arrived in Banbury at virtually 11am to join the once large and colourful picket at Banbury Youth Centre. This was the second picket of the day without a line at the steering office from 8am. The undercurrent was good, considering the situation and the miserable weather, thanks to the large value of support from passing traffic and pedestrians. Read increasingly well-nigh Youth Workers Strike in Oxford Report when from Oxford Strike Assembly Friday the 17th of June saw the first Oxford 'Strike Assembly', meeting in whop of the strikes on June 30th to discuss, plan and organise. We had public and private sector workers, unemployed, self-employed, students and NGO workers attending. We are holding a morning rally which will go from picket to picket on the 30th: Meet at Gloucester Green at 7.30 am! Pickets are confirmed at Gloucester Green outside the Job Centre and at the Oxford and Cherwell and Valley College on Oxpens, so will be visiting there and other as yet unconfirmed pickets. Read increasingly well-nigh Report when from Oxford Strike Assembly Blaming the Survivor, Excusing the Perpetrator In the news recently, there have been a few wares well-nigh a cop and various politicians downplaying the seriousness of rape. These unfortunately aren’t only the words of a few ‘out of touch’ old sexist men, they reflect a wider culture that blames women stuff 'provocative' for rape, and excuses rapist men on the grounds that they have uncontrollable sexual drives. Read increasingly well-nigh Blaming the Survivor, Excusing the Perpetrator ‘Is there everyone there?’: The Census Man unchangingly rings twice... In days gone by it was a popular cry for mediums when attempting to conjure the spirits of the deceased to ask: ‘is there everyone there?’ (for older readers think Margaret Rutherford in Blythe Spirit). The same phrase seems to have found its way into the lexicon of the state in recent weeks as it attempts to mop up the strays and slackers who have failed to return their census forms. An unwashed of starchy servants have been worrying people virtually the UK who have forgotten to fill in their forms. Read increasingly well-nigh ‘Is there everyone there?’: The Census Man unchangingly rings twice... Thames Valley SolFed (Reading) Vs Office Angels: Round Three - TKO On Friday 13th May Thames Valley (Reading) SolFed returned to the local Office Angels in support of Dan’s wage claim. By now people had begun to recognise us and in unstipulated the public were taking our leaflets quite happily. At 5-45 some of the staff from Office Angels came lanugo and in unrelatedness to the previous night's scuffle the mood was light-hearted. The man from the office who had sought to grab our leaflets came to apologise and tell us how much he respected our deportment in support of Dan. Read increasingly well-nigh Thames Valley SolFed (Reading) Vs Office Angels: Round Three - TKO Oxford Pickets Office Angels On Thursday 12th, Thames Valley Solfed leafleted outside Office Angels in Oxford, in wing to the pickets that we undertook in Reading. We had well-nigh 10 people over the undertow of the picket, including friends of SolFed members who were passing & wanted to help out, a member of The Commune up for the day, and other Oxford locals. The office looked deserted at first but a member of staff came out & wonted our leaflet, but produced one of their own which deplored “the need for uncontrived action”. Read increasingly well-nigh Oxford Pickets Office Angels Thames Valley SolFed (Reading) Vs Office Angels: Rounds 1 and 2 On Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th May two members of the Thames Valley SolFed local leafleted outside the Reading workshop of Office Angels as part of the nationwide wayfarers versus the firm’s dodgy practices. Round one of the leafleting started on Wednesday at 9 am and included an imaginative re-working of the Office Angel's logo on the door of their building. On both days members of the public showed interest and often support for the wayfarers with at least 6 people saying that they would phone Office Angels to mutter well-nigh their behaviour. Read increasingly well-nigh Thames Valley SolFed (Reading) Vs Office Angels: Rounds 1 and 2 Pages1 2 next › last » You can get in touch with us via the contact form on this site. Newsletters Winning the Argument or Winning the Fight? (post) (pdf) SF sites links iwa-ait.orgaf-britain.org.ukswf-iwa.org.ukdam-iwa.org.ukstuffyourboss.comselfed.org.ukdirect-action.org.ukold SF site Main menu 2HomeWell-nighContact Locals Industrial Networks Publications Login Solidarity Federation