[Anarchafeminists] Mayday, Mayday - 3pm, Sunday 30th March

[kamaleon at riseup.net]

Friends and comrogues,

We'd like to invite you to the MayDay rooms (88 Fleet Street) on March 30th
at 3pm to discuss calling a May Day demonstration at Senate House,
University of London.

As you know, the University of London has made itself a focus of antagonism
over the past year. The militancy of the outsourced workers, which led to
the inspiring strikes and demonstrations of the 3 Cosas campaign, was
matched only by the vicious retaliation of management, in collaboration
with the cops. After 9 months of arrests, picket lines, fist fights, court
cases, kettles, demonstrations, sit ins and non-compliance, the future of
the workers' and students' struggles still hangs in the balance. But what
marks this moment out as different from many struggles we have been
involved in before, is that the struggles of students and workers have
become intertwined not only in the minds of management, but also on the
streets.

Management are on the back foot, unable to maintain discipline without the
brutality of the Met, but acutely aware that their attempts to violently
repress dissent have in fact generated MORE dissent, as story after story
of authoritarian insanity go viral. While they flounder, our methods are
diversifying: smash and grab raids on their offices, leaking embarrassing
documents to the national press, crowd-sourcing funds so that strikes that
can keep going, retaliatory campaigns against violent security bosses, and
regular paint-bombing just to brighten things up. They didn't realise how
lucky they were when we were just making noise and using chalk.  Our
continued success, though, depends on constant escalation.

This fight was always about more than the university. It has caught the
attention of and inspired people across the city, and indeed across the
country. Why? Because it speaks directly to low paid and precarious
workers. Because the recent struggles have dared to be radical in demanding
pensions and sick pay even while public sector workers are having theirs
attacked. Because they show that we can fight beyond and against as well as
through the big unions and their Glorious Leaders. Because it didn't take a
Sky News poll to tell us that most people in this country hate the cops!

It is for these reasons that we want to call a demonstration/ disruption/
manifestation on International Workers Day which represents the passion and
desires of the precarious, the low paid, the zero-houred, the part-timed,
the temporaried, the unemployed, the workfared, the sacked, the redundant,
the indebted.

If you're interested, please come along and help plan for this. The only
decision so far has been that we want to call it on campus - everything
else is still up for grabs.

*!Please extend this invite to trusted comrades!*

Hasta la victoria, companeros!