Events

No Sweat
London discussion forum:
The supermarket chains and sweatshop exploitation

Speaker: Jenny Ricks from ActionAid
Other discussion: on the G8;the unionisation of Starbucks

7.30, Monday 21 May
at the Plough pub. Museum Street, central London
(tubes: Tottenham Ct Rd, Holborn)

More info: admin@nosweat.org.uk
Or: 07804 891082

No Sweat: campaigning against sweatshop and child labour
www.nosweat.org.uk

HOW THE WORKING CLASS WENT GLOBAL

Venue: RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ

Time: Thursday 24 May, 1-2pm

Chinese factory workers, Bolivian miners and Somali office-cleaners in Canary Wharf – globalisation has created a whole new working class, and they are reliving stories that were first played out a century ago.

What might the new working classes of the global age learn from organised labour movements of the first industrial revolution?

In a world of multi-nationals, global capital and triumphant consumerism, can the bonds of worker solidarity survive?

Our first meeting will at 7.30pm, on Friday 25th May, in the upstairs room of the Plough, on Museum Street, WC1A 1LH (nearest tube: Tottenham Court Road).

We will be discussing the lessons that can be learnt from the German socialist women's movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The reading can be found at
http://www.workersliberty.org/taxonomy/term/456 (the summarised
version is entitled "German socialism and the 'women question'").

Future discussions will be on a wide variety of topics.

UK Rank & File Building Workers Committee

Can we trust union officials to get a good deal for us on Olympic sites?

Why not get organised ourselves

We demand:

* 35 hour week
* £20 per hour for all workers
* Direct employment
* Elected stewards and safety reps

Organising meeting at
Cock Tavern, Chalton Street, Euston
7pm, May 29

All building workers and rank and file trade unionists welcome

Contact 07749 517074

Athit Kong, Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union & Pherak Ly, Womens Agenda for Change will be speaking at a meeting organised by Labour Behind the Label and No Sweat.

Monday June 4 at Transport House (Unite / TGWU), Theobalds Rd, Holborn, Central London at 7pm.

Two short films from New York IWW member Diane Krauthamer:
- Together we win
- Union busting in Starbucks

Organised by the IWW
6.30 for food; 7.30 meeting starts
at the Bread and Roses, 68 Clapham Manor Street, London SW4

Info: 07882 972754
www.starbucksunion.org

Speakers: No Sweat supporters report back from the protests; Paul Hampton (Labour Research, personal cap.) discusses what the G8 decided to do
Crown Pub, New Oxford Street/Bloomsbury Way
(Tubes: Holborn, Tottenham Ct Rd)
A London No Sweat Forum

Massimo De Angelis

The Begining of History. Value Struggles and Global Capital
(Pluto 2007)
And the screening of Dagmar Diesner and Klara Jaya Brekke
'Underground London' (Artemis 2007)

Massimo will be presenting some major themes of his book through a commentary of the video-documentary by Dagmar Diesner and Klara Jaya Brekke on the lives and struggles of London migrant tube cleaners.

Red Rose Comedy Club, 129 Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, London N7

FRIDAY 15 JUNE, 6:30. Nearest tube Finsbury Park.