The Tories want immigrants to save them from shortages? Fuck off

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In a winter of discontent ruled by shortages, the Tories are turning to the immigrants they demonised to help them out.
Kemi Alemoru

Welcome to Britain. A land where Nandos and KFC, our premier chicken restaurants, are out of chicken. McDonald’s has no milkshakes. Our supermarket shelves are empty. Brexiteer-run budget pub chain Wetherspoons has pumped its own beer taps dry. The British Soft Drinks Association says we’re running out of gas to make our drinks fizzy. And thanks to nationwide fuel shortages, people are stuck in mile-long queues at petrol stations. Good luck. Outside of the motorway network an estimated 50%-85% of independent petrol stations in the UK currently have nothing left to give. We’re watching the nation coming apart at the seams.

What a silly little mess

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Naked greed: the boss class exposed

Anarchist Communist Group

Whilst on one hand we see the development of mutual aid networks among the working class, on the other hand we see the obscene slavering greed of our masters.

Take Richard Branson (Sir pronounced cur). He announced that staff at his airline, Virgin Atlantic, must take eight weeks unpaid leave as a result of the coronavirus crisis. He also cut sick pay from 6 months full pay to 3 months.

Following a wave of outrage, Branson was forced to dip into his $690 million personal fortune to fork out $250 million for a rescue package. He then begged the government for a handout of £5 billion to £7.5 billion of credit facilities. Branson earns £9.9 million alone on his £8 billion net worth if he secures a 2% interest.

Meanwhile his Virgin healthcare group has paid not a penny in corporation tax whilst being handed £2 billion worth of NHS and local authority contracts.

Another drooling social vampire is the boss of Wetherspoons, Tim Martin. Concerned about losing some of his profits, Martin was keen to keep his pubs and hotels open, whilst other businesses were closing, putting profit before health. With the closure of his pubs, he then counselled his workers that they should go off and get jobs with the supermarkets, to avoid him paying any sick pay. He refused to cover this for his 43,000 workers until the government gives him a handout, which may not be until late April.

Another ravening hyena is Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley. At first he said he was keeping his stores open because they were “essential services” (he meant a hole in his profits). He was then forced to reverse this decision. Thousands of Sports Direct workers are on zero hours contracts which means they receive no pay if they don’t work, and they will be paid for March but not after that.

Meanwhile, many US senators started selling stock off after receiving a briefing about the pandemic. Among these was the Senator for North Carolina, Richard Burr. As chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee he received daily briefings on the spread of coronavirus. He sold off between $628,000 and $1.72m of his holdings, a week before the stock market crashed because of the pandemic. Burr and other Senators, both Republican and Democrat, chose to make money rather than warn the public about the looming crisis.

We need to finish with this sick society that breeds apologies for human beings like all of these, whose greed runs to the sociopathic, and create a new society, built on mutual aid, community and solidarity.

Red And Black Telly: TOMMY ROBINSON JAILED ( YET AGAIN ! )

Anti-fascist callout, Swindon 9th February 2019

A fascist infestation is anticipated this saturday in Swindon.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/17415220.swindon-yellow-vest-protesters-to-to-hold-demo-on-saturday

The event is being promoted by Martin Costello and Luke Nash Jones, who got chucked out of UKIP last year for abusing staff in a socialist bookshop while wearing Donald Trump masks.

The weirdoes will now put on yellow vests in imitation of French anarchists to express their disdain for foreigners and their enthusiasm for WTO rules.

Swindon Trade Union Council are inviting humans to gather at the cenotaph, regent circus, at 13:00 hrs to oppose them. facebook event

Durham Neo-Nazi and National Action attendee Mark Pearson recites ’14 words’ & ‘down with the left’.

Bloody wetherspoons again!

Spoons strike solid.

From Bristol SolFed on twitter

Spread the Spoons Strike – new bulletin out now!

Cautiously pessimistic

Ahead of the Wetherspoons strike on October 4th, a new bulletin for Wetherspoons workers is being published. You can contact the authors at spoonstrike@gmail.com. Meanwhile, people in London can also pick up leaflets about the IWW call for a couriers’ strike from Freedom bookshop and Housmans, or use this image to print your own off if you have access to a printer. A strike fund has also been set up here.

Below is the main article from the new bulletin:

It can be hard to live on the money we make. We spend most of our wages on renting damp flats, we have to walk to work when we can’t afford the bus, and we have to choose between dinner and a haircut. We’re forced to work as fast as we can for long shifts with barely any breaks, even when we’re sick or injured…

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Weatherspoons workers to go on strike

Ubereats riders react to pay cut with wildcat strike, and Wetherspoons/TGI Fridays/McDonald’s strike set for early October

Cautiously pessimistic

Ubereats couriers in London have now been on strike for two days in a row after their rates were slashed from £4.26 to £3.50 per delivery. I’ve not been able to find a full report from movement sources anywhere, but you can follow the ubereatsstrike hashtag, and check out Notes from Below, the IWGB and the IWW couriers network, who are all involved in supporting/covering the strike. Notes from Below also have a detailed report from the Glasgow couriers’ strike last week, and a new interview with an autonomous collective of delivery riders based in Paris. The IWW couriers’ network and the UVW also recently got Deliveroo to overturn a policy barring deliveries to sex workers, while leaving in place a clause saying you can’t deliver food to cops, which is a good rule no-one objects to.

Further ahead, the IWGB are calling…

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National Action and South Wales Police / Heddlu De Cymru: from the Anti Fascist Network.

Here’s something that caught our attention here at AFN. We’re clear what conclusions we can draw from it, but encourage you to make up your own minds.

The posh boy neo nazis of National Action recently published a triumphant, yet hilariously delusional “action report” of their efforts to impress in Swansea. They attempted to infiltrate an antifascist demo to cause trouble back in March but it didn’t end well for them, with the attempt exposed and seen off by vigilant antifascists and almost the whole group arrested. Their online version of events was the source of much mirth and amusement for antifascists who have seen (the backs of) them in “action”.

Less entertaining was the bit where they gloat about all their charges being dropped. Not because we want them to be “brought to justice” (as militant antifascists we do not believe the state has anything to offer in this department), but because of what it means.

The antifascist comrade who was arrested for being part of defending the demo against the attack from National Action was recently approached by the police to be an informer.

Officers from the Welsh Counter Extremism and Terrorism Unit (WECTU) stated that if the comrade agreed to give information on other activists they would “help out” the comrade. When asked, the cops confirmed they would be making the neo nazis the same offer / request to grass. That same day it seems all the charges against the neo nazis were dropped. ‘Ello ’ello! What’s all this then? Could it be that South Wales police and the surveillance state have found some new helpers? Well, it all seems to be pointing in that direction to us.