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This week, Dave Ward replaced Billy Hayes as general secretary of the posties’ union, the CWU. A member of Liverpool IWW wrote the following a few years ago, analysing how the CWU bureaucracy works against its members’ interests. He believes…

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is now taking up the campaign to support the staff of the Youth Hostel Association (YHA) in their claim and efforts to be paid the living wage for working for the YHA. The…

Members of Liverpool IWW joined around a dozen activists, including people from the benefits advice group Reclaim, outside West Derby job centre on Eaton Road this lunchtime. This was part of a national day of action in solidarity with Scottish…

This email was sent in response to a call out for emails ONLY to paulp [at] quaker [dot] org [dot] uk over the matter discussed in the text below. Dear Paul, I am writing to you about the three workers…

Liverpool Industrial Workers of the World would like to send out fullest solidarity to the workers at the Leicester Square School of English. The owner, Craig Tallents, closed down the school without notice, owing staff thousands of pounds in unpaid…

Liverpool IWW condemns Merseyside Police’s use of Dispersal Notices to control activists in Liverpool city centre. Merseyside Police used this legislation against activists for the first time on Saturday 22nd November. People taking action with the Liverpool Rise For Palestine…

Yesterday was to have been the day of our big demo against furniture recyclers Bulky Bob’s, demanding that the Liverpool council contractor got rid of workfare. But then of course, the fact that we’d exposed them and were threatening a…

Congratulations to Sheffield wobblies!

Even if we do say so ourselves, Liverpool IWW have won a great victory by getting such a strong statement against workfare from locally-based household waste recycling/furniture company FRC/Bulky Bob’s, who used the unpaid labour scheme until last Friday. Liverpool…