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Impetus- the SolFed freesheet | 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 You are hereHome » Publications »Impetus- the SolFed freesheetImpetus- the SolFed freesheetImpetus#29 (Feb 2012)The unconfined workfare scandal - thousands forced to do unpaid work for their benefits Resisting, questioning, creating - 101 years of International Women's Day Victory for the Sparks - Electricians write-up when BESNA cuts to pay and conditions Interview - John Foley, the man overdue the 'RyanAir don't care' wayfarers Plus: your vital rights at work, pensions 'sell out', letters, international round up and much more.Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#28 (October 2011) With friends like these, who needs enemies? To write-up the cuts, workers need to act independently of the trade union laws... and it's once happening. Dispatches from the frontlines: Three London education workers speak well-nigh cuts, organising and casualisation in the sector. Victory for the cleaners: unofficial whoopee by Senate House and Guildhall cleaners gets results in London. Sparks fly: electricians uncontrived whoopee over pay cuts.Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#27 (June 2011) Stop work to stop the cuts? Why striking versus the cuts makes sense on June 30 and beyond. Striking back: In-depth centrefold full-length on strike action, including an illustrated timeline of strikes in Britain and a graph plotting falling strike days versus rising inequality. Victory versus Office Angels:Uncontrivedwhoopee solidarity wins a temp's stolen wages. This year's war: From Iraq to Libya - where there's oil there's 'humanitarian intervention'.Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#26 (March 2011) Winning the treatise or winning the fight: where next without March 26?ThriftBritain: centrefold full-length on thrift and the resistance. Levenshulme Baths saved: 20-day wayfarers gets results. North African revolts: calls for 'bread and freedom' spread. Know your rights: vital rights at work. Comment: slipperiness in care.Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#25 (December 2010)Deportmentspeaks louder: Did the trashing of Tory HQ at Millbank in November mark the start of a militant anti-cuts movment?Direct Action: Centrefold poster to pull-out and alimony - or decorate your local occupation with! Housing goody cuts spark poverty fears: We interview a claimant. 'All joined up': An interview with a French teacher who participated in the unstipulated strike and economic blockades there.Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#24 (Summer 2010)NOT all in this together : The Government’s “tough but fair” upkeep will hit the poorest the hardest, as well as having a untempered impact on women. Meanwhile, the Sunday Times Richlist reveals that the richest 1,000 people in Britain widow 30% to their wealth despite the recession.Is this farewell, welfare?: The government’s wordplay to the problem of unemployment during the biggest economic slipperiness since the 1930s is not to create any new jobs, but to launch a massive wade on our living standards. Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#23 (Spring 2010) In this issue: Vote for change?; Battleground higher education; Climate change; Net pirates, Know your rights and more! Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#22 (Winter 2009) In this issue: Crisis, cuts and matriculation struggle; Interview with a Tower Hamlets College striker; Cleaners struggles; Lewisham Bridge school occupation, Know Your Rights and more! Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#21 (Summer 2009)Sweep ISS out of SOAS : Victimisation of cleaners at a major London university is fought by students and workers.Victory at Linamar:Withoutthreatening strike action, workers at the car-part manufacturer Linamar succeed in getting a Unite convenor re-instated. Tube staff go off the rails: London Underground workers take strike whoopee to protect job security as tube bosses put 4,000 jobs at risk. Know your rights: Immigration checks The regularImpetuspost summarises our immigration rights.Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#20 (Spring 2009)Occupy and win! :Withoutthey were given six minutes’ notice of the closure of the company, Workers at car parts manufacturer Visteon in Belfast, Enfield and Basildon occupied their factories on Wednesday 1st April.National Day ofWhoopeeagainst Subway: A series Subway outlets in the UK and Ireland are picketed pursuit the victimisation of a pregnant Subway worker in Belfast. Know your rights: Maternity Leave The regularImpetuspost at our rights when we're pregnant.Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#19 (February 2009)Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#18 (Autumn 2008)Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#17 (July 2008)Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#16 (Spring 2007)Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#15 (Summer 2006)Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#14 (Spring 2006)Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#13 (Summer 2005)Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#12 (April 2005)Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#11 (September 2004)Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#10 (May 2004)Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#9 (Spring 2004)Impetus9Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#8 (Autumn 2003)Impetus8Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#7 (May 2003)Impetus7Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#6 (December 2002)Impetus6Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#5 (December 2001)Impetus5Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#4 (May 2001)Impetus4Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#3 (February 2001)Impetus3Download as a PDF file or read online.Impetus#2 (September 2000) Royal Mail: Unofficial whoopee gets results.  Workplace organisation at Runcorn Delivery Office reaches a new height with a 24h wild cat strike.Recognise This?! We squint at new labour legislation introduced by New Labour, permitting ‘Automatic' union recognition.It's Official; poor ways skint. The Acheson Report on Health Inequality from the Department for the Bleeding Obvious has new findings: theoretically the poor have less money and live less well.Download as a PDF file or read online.Well-nighCatalystImpetusis the quarterly freesheet of the Solidarity Federation. If you want to get hold of a copy, get in touch with your nearest SolFed local, or email catalyst[AT]solfed.org.uk. If you would like to distribute Catalyst, please get in touch with the Media Collective.Impetussubmission guidelinesImpetusis SolFed’s main outward-looking propaganda, and is produced by the media joint as mandated by national conference. We want it to be as good as possible, and reflect both the geographical and topical telescopic of the organisation. But we can only print what gets submitted! You don’t have to be an experienced writer to submit to Catalyst, anything from 25 words to 1,200 words will be considered. We have tried to develop a ‘house style’ of ‘psuedo-news’, becauseImpetusonly comes out every 3 months we need to present wringer in an wieldy newsy way. But you don’t need to worry too much well-nigh this – that’s what the joint is there for, to sub-edit or re-write sections where necessary to fit in with the overall style. SinceImpetuswent 8-page tabloid in October 2009, we’ve moreover tried to unravel it lanugo into stock-still sections to make it easier to structure and solicit articles. This can help you get an idea what you can write, and where it would go: Page 1: Mostly flags for what’s inside, plus the first 400 words of a lead vendible (which can be up to 1,000 words long if it’s unfurled inside). This vendible is usually on the most important issue that will be topical for the 3-month elapsing of the issue (e.g. cuts, elections etc), and is normally written or vicarious by theImpetuscollective. Page 2: International round-up. Anything from 25 word shorts to 600 word wares well-nigh international matriculation struggles or events of interest to angry/militant/disillusioned workers. We try to get IWA stuff in, but only when it’s of interest to non-anarchists – so things like the FAU Babylon Cinema and Belgrade 6 have been covered extensively considering they’re moreover newsworthy, but CNT deportment would only be covered if significant, rather than reporting every minor dispute or bit of solidarity they do (which is quite a lot!). Page 3: the second most important page in the paper. Usually a full-length vendible of 5-600 words, ideally on a struggle we’ve been directly involved in (such as the Lewisham Bridge school occupation), or a topic of wide interest where our anarcho-syndicalist perspective offers and wile people won’t have read elsewhere. This page moreover has virtually 400 words for other articles, plus a ‘news in brief’ post for 50-100 word shorts. Page 4-5: Centrefold spread. This is our endangerment to squint at an issue in depth, or do an interview with a participant in a recent uncontrived whoopee (strike, occupation etc). Usually virtually 1,400 words in total, but wrenched into several separate pieces on the same theme. So if it was an interview, there’d moreover be a ‘background’ box, for example. They wouldn’t necessarily have to be written by the same person. Page 6: Industry Focus OR Know your rights. Standing feature, 8,00-1,200 words in-depth on a particular industrial focus or legal rights issue.Vitalrights at work are in every issue on page 6 or 7. Page 7: Comment, Opinion & Letters. Page 8: Miscellaneous/everything else. Main menu 2HomeWell-nighContact Locals Industrial Networks Publications Login Solidarity Federation