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Join us next week for the 'Workers & Capital' stream of @histmat conference.
We'll also have a stall with books, issues and merch, as well as our Saturday night party from 8pm at Pelican House (E1 5QJ)!
Full stream details available here: luma.com/eqb1kwnu
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🎉 Join us on Sat 7th Nov for our Historical Materialism conference party!
🎵 Come along for (cheap!) drinks, DJs and maybe even some exclusive merch. We’ll start after the conference panels finish and go on until late. All welcome!
🗺️ Free registration: luma.com/e45u1341
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Ahead of our event with Neil, we spoke with him on the development of his book with
@CommonNotions - on the influence of the Situationist International on territorial inquiry, the transformation of Glasgow, Italian neo-realism, and 'the tendency'!
Online: notesfrombelow.org/article/t…
Join us on October 10th at Pelican House in East London for a book launch and collective discussion on urban politics with @NeilGray00 on his excellent book, Take Over The City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy (@CommonNotions)!
Full details: luma.com/9kjkguyr
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Join us on October 10th at Pelican House in East London for a book launch and collective discussion on urban politics with @NeilGray00 on his excellent book, Take Over The City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy (@CommonNotions)!
Full details: luma.com/9kjkguyr
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🛏️ I Came to Care, But I Was Broken By the System - Margaret Kimani speaks of her experience as a migrant careworker.
This article was published as a response to Issue 25 of Notes from Below, "Hammering the Sky: Collective Action in Care".
🔗 Read now: notesfrombelow.org/article/i…
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📖 NOTES FROM BELOW ISSUE 27 - WORKERS INQUIRY: THE POLITICS OF A METHOD
🌞OUT NOW ONLINE: notesfrombelow.org/issue/wor…
📮SUBSCRIBE TODAY FROM £5 TO RECEIVE A PRINT COPY!
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💥 Workers’ Inquiry: The Politics Of A Method is out now in print and on its way to our subscribers!
🔗 Subscribe now for all future print issues and read the latest editorial online at notesfrombelow.org
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📣'Whitehall Worker #1' is now online!
🖊 "The Whitehall Worker is a new, rank-and-file bulletin. It is produced and written by a group of PCS representatives and activists who work at different departments based around Whitehall. We are in the state and against the state."
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Issue 27: 'Workers Inquiry: The Politics of a Method' - Out Soon 👀
Out now online is "Yarmouth Workers’ Project: A Territorial Inquiry" by Lotte and Dan. In this article, they discuss setting up an inquiry in the heartland of Britain’s rising far-right: notesfrombelow.org/article/y…
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📢'Fascists By The Seaside: Workers' Inquiry in Yarmouth' is now available through our podcast series!
Lotte and Dan talk us through the composition of Great Yarmouth, its poultry farms and possible routes for combatting insurgent fascism on its streets!
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🍏 'Situating the Work of Education' by Ellen David Friedman is out now in our latest issue.
🪱 Here, we interview Ellen David Friedman, founder of Labor Notes and a veteran rank-and-file labour organiser within K-12 education in the US.
🔗Read now: notesfrombelow.org/article/u…
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🚌 '‘A Lesson in Class Struggle’: Working in a South London School' by Matthew is out now.
📝 In this worker's inquiry, a former teaching assistant discusses the class composition and self-organised campaigns at their secondary school.
🔗Read now: notesfrombelow.org/article/a…
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🌊 'Turning the Tide: Organising Against Militarism in Schools' by Disarm Education is out now.
📉 In this piece, an education worker and member of Disarm Education lays out the reasoning behind and history of their campaign.
🔗Read now: notesfrombelow.org/article/t…
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🧏 'A Right to Language? Working in Deaf Education' by Jack and Alex is out now in our latest issue.
✍️ In this inquiry, an SEN worker discusses the state of d/Deaf education and the possibilities for worker-organising in the sector.
🔗Read now: notesfrombelow.org/article/a…
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📚️ 'Fighting for our class: Working and Organising in Further Education' is out now in our latest issue.
🍎 In this piece, a former FE worker reflects on over a decade working in the sector and organising against its destruction.
🔗Read now: notesfrombelow.org/article/f…
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⚙️ 'Day in the Life Working in the Factory School ' by Eleanor Davies is out now.
🚸 In this piece, Eleanor Davies, a teacher and NEU rep, takes us through the highs and lows of an average working day at her primary school.
🔗Read now: notesfrombelow.org/article/d…
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📢 'Reflections on a Nursery Strike' by Jo is out now in our latest issue.
🐣 In this inquiry, Jo, an early years teacher and union activist, recounts organising a striking in their maintained nursery school.
🔗Read now: notesfrombelow.org/article/r…
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🍎 NOTES FROM BELOW ISSUE 26 - CLASS DISMISSED: AGAINST THE STATE OF EDUCATION
📖 OUT NOW ONLINE: notesfrombelow.org/issue/cla…
📮 SUBSCRIBE TO US TODAY FOR A PRINT COPY : notesfrombelow.org/subscribe
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Issue 26: 'Class Dismissed' - Out Soon 👀
Subscribe today to get a copy:
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Read the editorial to our latest issue, Hammering the Sky: Collective Action in Care, online now!
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📚 ISSUE 25 - HAMMERING THE SKY: COLLECTIVE ACTION IN CARE - OUT SOON!
In this issue of Notes from Below, we explore the ways in which care workers are finding industrial strength and fighting back.
🔗 Read our editorial, 'Left in Our Care', now:
notesfrombelow.org/article/e…
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🎉 Join us for our @histmat conference party on Friday 9th November!
Food, drinks, DJs and comrades at Pelican House until late!
Full details and sign-up here: luma.com/z9fzqwwi
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We are very excited to be launching our issue, Dispassions: Class Struggle In Arts & Culture, in Glasgow at Broadside Space and with our comrades at Variant Magazine next week!
Saturday 25th October - 6.30 - 8pm - join us to discuss worker organising and struggle in the sector!
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Thanks to everyone who attended our sessions at @TWT_NOW this weekend in Manchester.
We held packed sessions on class composition and care worker organising, as well as contributing to panels on salting and political organising in the culture sector. Solidarity forever!
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📢Our podcast, Workers' Inquiry, is back today for its second season!
We spoke with Louise Héretier, a Paris-based actor, about Cultures en Lutte, a rank-and-file anti-austerity campaign of cultural workers.
Available wherever you get your podcasts!
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📕 ISSUE 24 - DISPASSIONS: CLASS STRUGGLE IN ARTS & CULTURE IS OUT NOW ONLINE AND IN PRINT! 🎨🖍️🧵🎭
Read on our site now:
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Join us on the evening of Saturday 6th September for a collaborative event with our comrades at Variant magazine!
Come along for a night of readings and discussion from both our new issues on culture, work and class!
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📝 NFB PRESENTS: A SUMMER PUB QUIZ!
Join us on 22nd August for a pub quiz, including a special round on working-class history.
With speakers involved in workplace struggles across London, with all money going towards supporting their fights.
More info: lu.ma/12od3cl3
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📕 ISSUE 24 - DISPASSIONS: CLASS STRUGGLE IN ARTS & CULTURE - OUT SOON!
In this issue, we hear about work and organising in theatres, galleries, museums & game studios, and learn about mass campaigns forged across disparate ‘creative’ jobs to build a collective sense of power.
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We’re out at the Birmingham bin strikes this morning, the Mega Picket has shut down smithfield and perry barr sites across Birmingham 🗑️❌✊
@strike_map #brumbinstrike
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📢Join us on Wednesday 23rd of July for the third session in our Worker Centre series!
We will hear from Janice Fine and Mostafa Henaway on international experiences of worker centres, and be joined by local groups Nijjor Manush and Migrante for a roundtable discussion!
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📢 Join us at Pelican House on Tuesday for the next event in our series!
📝This session explores the crucial role of worker writing and co-research in organising efforts, both contemporary and historical - and will include a bulletin writing workshop!
All welcome!
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Make sure to read the 1st issue of The Pan-African Worker, a new publication from the inspirational @IWW_PAWA - an important document of their success in organising as migrant workers since 2022!
The Pan-African Worker - Flipbook - Page 1d pawa.paperturn-view.com/?pid…
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Thank you to the over fifty people who attended our workshop "What is workers' inquiry and class composition?" last night!
We had great discussions on the politics of work and the practical tools needed for not just for workplace transformation, but revolutionary change.
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If you cannot make it along for this first session, then we hope to see you at two of our other events on worker organising at Pelican House this summer!
ALT A poster for an upcoming series of events at Pelican House titled 'Building Autonomy: An Introduction To Worker Organising', sub-titled 'A practical course on 'from below' strategies for workers struggle'. This lists Session 1 on Tuesday 27 May, 7pm, Session 2 Tuesday 17 June, 7pm and Session 3 8 July, 7pm at Pelican House.
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📢 Join us at 7pm this Tuesday at Pelican House for a session on how to research and understand your workplace🔎
The first of a three-part series on revolution, class and work, this session combines Marxist perspectives on class with practical tools for workplace transformation!
ALT A poster for an upcoming event at Pelican House titled 'What is Workers Inquiry & Class Composition?', sub-titled 'A practical course on 'from below' strategies for workers struggle'. This is Building Autonomy: Session 1, hosted on Tuesday 27th May, 7pm at Pelican House.
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🚇 Workers Inquiry - Ep. 11: Under London
In this episode we talk to James, a tube driver on the Piccadilly Line, about his work, organising and what it's like to operate London's transport infrastructure.
🎧 Listen to the full episode now below: open.spotify.com/episode/0HO…
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🚩 Workers Inquiry - Ep. 10: Syndicalism and the New Limits of Trade Unionism
Editors Roberto, Matthew and Callum talk about trade unions, social partnership, class compromise, and bureaucrats.
🎧 Listen to the full episode now: open.spotify.com/episode/40l…
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🚩Join us on Tuesday 8th April (6-8pm) at Pelican House in Bethnal Green to hear from Mostafa Henaway on the experience of building the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montréal!
🔗 Sign up here lu.ma/4jjls29d
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🛒 Workers Inquiry - Ep. 9: Supermarket Struggle
In episode 9 we talk to three comrades from CEDRA, a Slovenian political organisation, about their work with supermarket workers and their method of feminist coresearch.
🎧 Listen to the full episode now: open.spotify.com/episode/1Bu…
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🌍 Workers Inquiry - Ep. 8: The Pan African Workers Association
We talk to Francis and Barbara from PAWA about working and organising in the care industry, and how the global political economy structures the conditions of this work.
Listen now:
buff.ly/4bhJzZ2
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Join us for the launch of our next issue - Infrastructure: Fault Lines and Frontlines!
In this issue we hear from miners, water workers, shipbuilders, tube drivers, energy workers & militants organising with supermarket workers.
RSVP here 👉 buff.ly/4k9VCMe
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📣Workers' Inquiry - Ep. 7: Essential Work, Disposable Workers
In our seventh episode, Mostafa Henaway talks to us about the work of the Immigrant Worker Centre in Montreal and the power of migrant worker organising in Canada.
Listen online now: open.spotify.com/episode/6D2…
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Comrades at the Casual Workers' Advice Office in South Africa have recently released their Strike Barometer for last year - a really important glimpse into the shape of strikes and struggle (e.g. significant increase in wildcat strikes!)
Read online:
cwao.org.za/news-article.asp…
ALT Casual Workers Advice Office in South Africa's recent 2024 strike barometer document with photographs from strikes and picket line demonstrations
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⛏️ Workers Inquiry Ep. 6: Mine Women
In episode 6, we talk to Karin, a Swedish ex-miner who worked in Europe's largest iron mine. She tells us about Gruvkvinnor [Mine Women], a self-organised group of blue collar women working in production.
Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/415…
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🚪 Workers Inquiry - Ep. 5: Close the Door Behind You
In episode 5 we talk to Nick about his time working as a bouncer. We go over the work, if coalitions are possible in hospitality, and the stories we tell ourselves to make work bearable.
Listen now:
buff.ly/40zFSKK
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🚩 Workers Inquiry - Ep. 4: We the Surplus
In episode 4 we spoke to Jonas Marvin (@m00dyjonas) about the history of sickness in Britain since the mid-20th century, and what health communism has to teach us about the class struggle today.
Listen now:
buff.ly/4a3rWvo
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“What would have actually happened had Corbyn won?”
🚩In episode 3 of Workers’ Inquiry, we spoke to Sai Englert about political organisation. We talk about revolutions, parties, and the looming combination of crisis and opportunity.
🎧 Listen now:
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🍳 Workers Inquiry - Ep. 2: Cooking up a Storm
In episode two of our podcast, we spoke to Eric (@Arbeit_Fish), a chef from London, about hospitality work, organising strategies, and gentrification.
Listen now:
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🚑 Workers Inquiry - Ep. 1: Contradictions in Care
In episode one of our podcast, we spoke to Lyra & Connor, two ex-care workers who speak about their experience in the industry, covering deindustrialisation, disability, migration & strikes.
Listen now:
buff.ly/403SQ1V
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📻 Workers’ Inquiry - A new podcast series by Notes from Below!
Today we launch “Workers Inquiry”, a new podcast series about work, struggle and revolution.
Listen here: buff.ly/3W5HDwo
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In 'Organising in Tower Hamlets', a piece from our latest issue, Kay Ballard discusses her extensive experience in organising within Tower Hamlets, highlighting the community’s historical resilience and need for a worker centre.
Read online now: buff.ly/3ZQAand
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⚒️ 'Building a Worker Centre in Tower Hamlets', the editorial of our latest issue, is available to read online now!
In this piece, we oultine the role a worker centre might play in Tower Hamlets, and argue for the importance of place-based inquiry.
buff.ly/3ZzkMKD
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New website by and for rank-and-file art and cultural workers. Have a look and join their meetings if you're working in the sector.
artistsandcultureworkers.org
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We're at @histmat today until Sunday! Come to our table to grab an issue or book, and check out our stream through the conference.
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📣 ISSUE 22 - OUT NOW!
This issue brings together pieces on worker centres in London, Montréal, US, and South Africa, and elswhere. It also forms part of an ongoing Notes from Below project to build a worker centre in Tower Hamlets.
Read now online 👉 buff.ly/4fhenKM
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✊ Help us put issues into the hands of workers in struggle!
By subscribing from £5 a month, you will get each of our issues delivered to your door, as well as help cover the cost of two free copies for us to distribute in workplaces.
Subscribe here 👇
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🥳 Today is the day of our London launch party for "Shift Patterns: Experiments in Hospitality Organising"!
📚 Join contributors for a discussion on how hospitality workers can win at work, as well as drinks and music after.
Full details below👇
lu.ma/f4s7b21c?tk=DQ6qYE
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🎉 Our latest issue "Shift Patterns: Experiments in Hospitality Organising" is out online today!
🔎 Featuring inquiries by hospitality workers in pubs, cafes, restuarants and more!
🔗 Read now via the link below:
notesfrombelow.org/issue/shi…
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📮 We’ve been busy this week posting copies of our latest issue to all our subscribers!
📖 Want a copy? Subscribe today, or head down to our London launch event next Thursday!
🎟️ Free tickets here: lu.ma/f4s7b21c
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☕️ Join us on Thursday 22nd August at 6pm for the launch of our next issue, Shift Patterns: Experiments in Hospitality Organising!
👉 More info and free tickets here: lu.ma/f4s7b21c
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☀️Out in the sun today talking to hospitality workers about the London launch party for our next issue, Shift Patterns: Experiments in Hospitality Organising!
🎟️ Join them and get your free ticket now here: lu.ma/f4s7b21c?tk=DQ6qYE
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Tomorrow's the day!
Join us in Glasgow tomorrow for the launch of our latest issue, "Shift Patterns: Experiments in Hospitality Organising", with comrades from @GlasgowUnite and more!
📍Red Rosa's (G40 1PA)
📅24th July at 6pm
Free tix: lu.ma/ie4npjt8
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📕 We are excited the London launch for our next issue, Shift Patterns: Experiments in Hospitality Organising.
Join contributors for a discussion on how hospitality workers can win at work.
🎟️ There is limited space - get your free ticket now here: lu.ma/f4s7b21c?tk=DQ6qYE
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Join us in Glasgow with contributors to our latest issue, "Shift Patterns: Experiments in Hospitality Organising", for a discussion on how hospitality workers can win!
📍 Red Rosa's, Glasgow (G40 1PA)
📅 24th July at 6pm
🎟️ Register for free here: lu.ma/ie4npjt8
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Join us on Wednesday 15 May for a discussion with Galo - a courier and strike leader from Brazil - as well as leaders from the strike movement in the UK, members of IWGB and Notes From Below.
📅 Wed 15 May
🕖 19:00 - 20:30
📍 Pelican House (E1 5QJ)
RSVP:
eventbrite.com/e/iwgb-x-note…
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If you’re setting up a library at your Palestine solidarity encampment, we’re happy to send free books your way!
Just message us on social media, or email us at: editors@notesfrombelow.org
Solidarity ✊🇵🇸
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📕 Our latest issue "Struggling to Work" is out online today!
📝 Featuring inquiries into education, healthcare, energy, and the public sector strikes in the north of Ireland, as well as an an interview with @WorkersinPales1!
👇 Read now below
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✉️ Our next issue, “Struggling to Work”, has been posted out and has started arriving on subscribers doorsteps.
This issue brings together an array of inquiries into education, energy, healthcare and Palestine.
Keep you eyes peeled for its online launch later this week 👀
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Two readers enjoying our latest issue, "The Political Leap"! 📚🐈⬛
Read it online here: notesfrombelow.org/issue/pol…
Or subscribe from £5 a month, and get a physical copy of this and future Notes from Below issues to your door: notesfrombelow.org/supporter
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Our latest issue “The Political Leap: Communist Strategy Today” is in the post and on its way to subscribers! 📩📫
Keep your eyes out for it. Subscribe to Notes From Below to support our work: notesfrombelow.org/supporter
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📓☭ Our new issue 'The Political Leap: Communist Strategy Today' will be going out to subscribers soon.
Subscribe now for a copy to be sent to your door as soon as we get them from the printers, with a full online version (and launch party!) to follow in the new year!📓☭
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📢Some of us will be involved in this event bringing together workers, union organizers, students, and activists to address workplace casualisation. Sign up here: eventbrite.com/e/organising-…
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📕We are at @histmat conference which starts today. We'll be selling NfB issues and running panels from 9 - 12 November. Come and say hi 👋
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Joining the #Palestine solidarity demonstration in London - it's looking massive already
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Big demonstration in support of the Palestinian struggle at the Israeli embassy in London tonight #Palestine #PalestineResists
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🚩 Strike assembly 🚩
How do university workers win?
Join us tonight @ 5pm
Pelican House, Cambridge Heath Road
We'll be launching our new book on HE struggles in the US, Correspondences from the Upsurge' 📕
🥳 Open to all UCU members
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Big posting afternoon has begun!
Send us pictures of your copy when it arrives 🟨
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🔔 Hot off the press 🔔
Seeds of Struggle: Food in a Time of Crisis
Subscribe to get a copy sent to your door: notesfrombelow.org/supporter
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Two days until our next issue comes back from the printers.
BUT you can already read our introduction online:
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SUBSCRIBE to get a copy on your doorstep: notesfrombelow.org/supporter
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The course of events that leads to a revolutionary situation is always unpredictable in advance.
Read the introduction to our new issue and subscribe to get a copy as soon as it launches here:
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👀A sneak peak of the back cover of our newest issue on food, released next week
SUBSCRIBE to get a copy: notesfrombelow.org/supporter
READ the editorial already here: notesfrombelow.org/article/c…
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🎉 Come join our summer social on Saturday 12th August!
🍻 Cheap food and drinks
👀 And a sneak peak at our next issue...
RSVP for free via the link below 👇
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Why are union leaders selling us a bad deal?
'A socialist bureaucrat is still a bureaucrat' says @VikCR_
'It's about building the rank and file as an independent force in the union'
Plenary session at
@Troublem8kers
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How to write a workplace bulletin 📕
Practical session happening now at @Troublem8kers
Featuring The University Worker, Marked Abstent!, Arts & labour as well as bulletins from the @maydayrooms archive
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Packed room at the parallel session of Organising from Scratch with @organise_now, @sarahwoolley01 and @jamie_woodcock
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