1976 was quite a year for Brent with the ground-breaking Grunwick dispute and a Willesden outpost of Lucas Aerospace when workers were developing their own plans for socially useful production under workers control. This upcoming event will enable us to reflect on both events and what we can learn from them.
Useful background on this video - this is not the film that will be screened on July 22nd
Screening of The Year of the Beaver and The Lucas Plan LINK, with discussion and brief talks by Kerria Box (Grunwick 40) and Solfed.
Useful background on this video - this is not the film that will be screened on July 22nd
Screening of The Year of the Beaver and The Lucas Plan LINK, with discussion and brief talks by Kerria Box (Grunwick 40) and Solfed.
22nd July 7pm at LARC, 62
Fieldgate Street, E1 (nearest tubes Whitechapel, Aldgate East.)
Organised by Breaking the Frame,
Grunwick 40 and North London Solidarity Federation. FREE/donation.
1976 was a high tide of workers’ struggle
and the year it all began to change. Giving the lie to racist and sexist myths
that Asian women were submissive and would work for a pittance, workers at the
Grunwick plant in Willesden rallied the left behind their struggle for the
right to join the union. At the Lucas Aerospace arms company, the Shops
Stewards’ Combine Committee took the fight to the bosses, with their workers’ Alternative
Plan for socially useful production.
In 2016 we are still facing the fiction
of ‘foreigners taking our jobs.’ In the
face of climate change and militarism, we again need industrial conversion,
from fossil fuels and Trident to renewables, and to stop the bosses replacing
our jobs with robots. Join us for 2 films and discussion, showing how workers’
rights and ideas are crucial to facing those challenges.
Refreshments will be available for a
donation. Contact info@breakingtheframe.org.uk for more
information. Venue is wheelchair accessible.
