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is a political organisation aiming to build workplace and community democracy through direct action and struggling with all those fighting for change.
We stand for the power of workers and local people against the bosses and politicians in order to bring about radical social change, to build a society based on freedom, democracy and cooperation.
Originally printed in Freedom 7010
Freedom interviews one of the workers active in the occupation and picket of the Visteon factory in Enfield.
Workers at the car parts manufacturing plants in Enfield, Basildon and Belfast won a seven week battle against Visteon UK, (and their former employer's Ford), after they were sacked without notice when the company went bust. In what was a monumental victory against car giants Ford, whom the workers were still contracted to, they are now receiving a proper redundancy package. We talk to Vijay, one of those active in the campaign over the past two months.
As the debate on the crisis got physical in central London this Wednesday, facing redundancy with slashed severance pay, hero’s working for Visteon producing car parts occupied their workplace! About 70 workers have squatted the residence, with Unite flags and home-made banners all over the roof and surrounding roads.
At our national conference L&S decided to endorse the Militant Workers Block on the basis of its callout (see appendix). We were happy that the loose group of London libertarians the callout came from, and that some of us are part of, hand met our request to make the language broad enough to include all people in favour of workers’ direct action against the crisis – specifically the IWW. Once the rest of our union had also endorsed the event we set about making sure we had the best possible impact on the day itself.
Two of our members speaking at the recent G20 march in London.
