West Mids IWW meeting 25/04/07

Serge Forward
Posts: 1233 Joined: 14-01-04 Location: Leicester, East Midlands
Submitted by Serge Forward on 19 April, 2007 - 22:35.

West Midlands IWW Meeting
Next Wednesday 25 April, 7.00pm at
The Anchor Inn, Bradford Street, Birmingham B5 6ET

The aim of the meeting is to make contact with other wobs and sympathisers and establish the West Midlands General Membership Branch.

x357997 "go ahead, make my day...punk"
Posts: 1853 Joined: 04-12-06 Location: Yay Area
19 April, 2007 - 23:06

red n black star sexy red n black star

ClassFight
Posts: 9 Joined: 26-04-07
26 April, 2007 - 01:19

Why have another syndicalist organisation in West Midlands / Birmingham, i thought you had Solfed in Birmingham / West Midlands ... and at least it has some politics ie Anarchism .... and isnt Libertarian reformist ....

I'll try to say this in a constructive manner !

Yours for politics ! direct - action and self - organisation !

I thought there was a Syndicalist group in WMA / Birmingham solfed, why another ...

x357997 "go ahead, make my day...punk"
Posts: 1853 Joined: 04-12-06 Location: Yay Area
26 April, 2007 - 07:57
ClassFight wrote:
Why have another syndicalist organisation in West Midlands / Birmingham, i thought you had Solfed in Birmingham / West Midlands ... and at least it has some politics ie Anarchism .... and isnt Libertarian reformist ....

I'll try to say this in a constructive manner !

Yours for politics ! direct - action and self - organisation !

I thought there was a Syndicalist group in WMA / Birmingham solfed, why another ...

Sol-Fed is a revolutionary pollitical group. IWW is a revolutionary union.

IWW is not reformist. IWW is revolutionary.

not to be rude, but where are you from?

WeTheYouth "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - Tolkien"
Posts: 1867 Joined: 16-10-03 Location: Manchester
26 April, 2007 - 15:24

There is no longer an SF branch in birmingham which is a shame, but hopefully in the future there will be, the main difference is what x357997 said also in solfed we define ourselves as anarcho syndicalists which will hopefully grow into anarcho syndicalist unions like the spanish CNT, whilst the IWW is a catch all industrial union which is not specifically anarcho syndicalist.

I hope the IWW will create a branch in birmingham, as an SF member who will soon be back in brum, i would help them out to achieve setting up a branch. Also there is no reason why we cant have SF and IWW branches in the same city, its good for the movement to use a variety of methods and tactics, but for me SF has got the right strategy IMO for building revolutionary unions.

I have set up a blog, to keep track of syndicalist activities in birmingham

http://bsyndicalist.blogspot.com/

It will be updated alot more as soon as i am back in brum =D

x357997 "go ahead, make my day...punk"
Posts: 1853 Joined: 04-12-06 Location: Yay Area
26 April, 2007 - 18:20
WeTheYouth wrote:
I hope the IWW will create a branch in birmingham, as an SF member who will soon be back in brum, i would help them out to achieve setting up a branch. Also there is no reason why we cant have SF and IWW branches in the same city, its good for the movement to use a variety of methods and tactics

groucho cool cool groucho

red n black star

leader of things
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1 June, 2008 - 06:21

i will probaly goto this

may the best people in the west midlands areia of wolverhampton pm me

ftony "crews are for boats"
Posts: 3705 Joined: 26-05-04 Location: East London
4 June, 2008 - 11:56

erm... leader of things, this topic is about a year and a bit old. i wouldn't advise you turn up in april 2009 expecting there to be a meeting wink