On the 1st May, a coalition of groups came together in Brighton to hold a ‘Precarious Mayday’ night demonstration to support and develop worker self-organisation in the city. The coalition calling the demonstration was made up of precarious academic staff from the university, supermarket workers and Deliveroo riders (organised in the IWGB base union) alongside […]
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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 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
A few days ago, the writer, thinker, music commentator, father, revolutionary and Plan C member Mark Fisher took his own life. Mark had battled with mental ill health for a long time and wrote openly about his struggle with it – contextualising it within a political understanding rather than in the individualised narrative, creating a
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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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