The November issue of the Rebel Roo, a bulletin for and by Deliveroo workers, is here. After a bit of a break, we’re publishing again. This month we’ve got reports from a victorious strike in Bristol and a big precarious labour demonstration in London. Across the country, a new round of Deliveroo conflicts are starting […]
The May issue of Rebel Roo, a bulletin for and by Deliveroo workers, is here. It contains updates from the Precarious Mayday demonstration in Brighton, as well as a call for a ‘general deconnection’ from France and a guide to setting up a rank and file group in your city. Get the PDF here, or contact rebelroouk@gmail.com
The April issue of the Rebel Roo, a bulletin for and by Deliveroo workers, is here. This month we’ve got reports from victorious campaigns in Leeds and Brighton, as well as an update from roos in France who are taking on management over pay cuts. After a series of successful first confrontations with management we need to expand
The March issue of the Rebel Roo, a bulletin for and by Deliveroo workers, is here. This issue contains two big reports from Leeds and Brighton. Workers there have been striking, demonstrating and generally raising hell over bad wages and victimisation! If you want to get in touch with other workers or distribute paper copies
The fourth issue of the Rebel Roo, a self-organised Deliveroo workers’ bulletin supported by Plan C, is now being distributed around the UK (and further afield). This issue covers the strike in Brighton, Error 503 app crashes, cuts to hours is Middlesbrough, and working conditions in Marseilles. Riders around the country are getting more and
The January issue of the Rebel Roo, a bulletin for and by Deliveroo workers, is here. This issue covers a successful strike by Bristol trainers, Deliveroo being forced to back down over their attempts to victimise a London worker, the City-Sprint legal ruling and a call out from striking Foodora workers in Italy. If you
Rebel Roo #2 is here. This December issue of the Deliveroo Workers’ bulletin contains updates from London, Brighton, Berlin and Italy as well as information on how to get in touch with union-building projects currently being led by the Industrial Workers of the World and the Independent Workers of Great Britain. If you want to get in
The struggle for decent wages and conditions within the ‘gig economy’ has entered a new phase recently with the Uber court victory and the announcement of a union-building drive by the IWGB amongst Deliveroo workers in London. The initial energy of the summer’s spontaneous strikes is successfully being converted into long-term campaigns. As part of
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Kurdistan, Social Strike, Strike, Work
In the first days of January 2018, Tunisia has been shaken by a new round of social rebellion for socioeconomic rights, including demonstrations, roadblocks, and clashes with the police in most regions of the country. I will first summarise the facts and then provide a theoretical interpretation. The proximate cause of the unrest is the
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Inter/Transnational
Friday 10th March saw a critical moment in the growing struggle in Deliveroo in Leeds. A mass bike ride was called by Bradford IWW, in City Square for 6pm. By the time we set off there were 100 plus people; mostly cyclists, a third of them Deliveroo couriers, the rest of us supporters, troublemakers and
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Kurdistan, Social Strike, Work