John Stevens

A brief account of Unison's national conference, 2008

Ed — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:55:42 +0000

I recently attended Unison's national delegate conference in Bournemouth as a delegate from a London local government branch. It was an eye opening experience with respect to the machinations of political groupings within the union.

In particular some of the ways in which the new Labour-linked bureaucracy maintained control over the supposedly lay lead organisation became clear.

April 24 – hundreds of thousands to walk out

Steven. — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:35:14 +0000

Employer attacks on workers' pay is the main issue at stake.

Teachers in the NUT are walking out over their pay deal which was supposed to be revised when inflation rose, but the government refused: effectively cutting their wages.

Interview with a member of libcom.org, 2007

Steven. — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:11:59 +0000

Libcom.org is a constantly expanding online resource that seeks to promote working class self-organisation through publishing news, theoretical texts and historical articles. Site traffic has risen from 25-35,000 visits per month in 2005 to 110-170,000 now and there are now 2,600 active users.

The Anarchist Youth Network (AYN), personal recollections, 2002-2004

Steven. — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 13:43:24 +0000

Lasting only from 2002 to 2004, it suffered many of the weaknesses common in the contemporary anarchist movement of the English speaking world.

Lessons of MWR - Interview with former McDonalds Workers Resistance member, 2006

Steven. — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:32:18 +0000

So, who are you?
The proletarian formerly known as Funnywump.

Briefly, what was McDonald’s Workers Resistance?