IWW Manchester

Title: You can repair your bicycle Graph subtitle: The success rate for the top 100 most common items taken to Repair Cafés between 2015 and 2025 The labelled examples are given below with a rough estimate where % is not given. Knives & scissors have the highest repair rate, at 98% Christmas lights ~50% Bikes ~80% Hedge trimmers ~75% Lamps ~75% Clocks ~65% TVS ~25% Printers ~25% Remote controls ~50% Footer: 136k items were taken for repair in 2015-2025, with an overall success rate of 62% Source: Repair Café (2025)

Have any FWs ever been to a repair café?

There's a few around Manc and Liverpool - take a look around your area and see what stuff you can fix without needing to buy new! 🌱

mfw no one came to rolled steel joist saturday

this isnt a joke i gotta make this £7.5k spend worth it somehow 😮‍💨

lomg steel beam in my loft

another RSJ pic

🚨🚨 IT'S ROLLED STEEL JOIST SATURDAY!!!🚨🚨

POST YOUR STEEL JOISTS BELOW !!! 👇👇👇👇

🚨We need your help. The NHS CYP gender service is consulting on the draft specification. This is, sadly, horrifically being driven by people who aren't trans or experts in the field of gender incongruence and based upon the much-discredited Cass Review 1/

www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...

POV you've just told your union rep you're getting paid less than your male coworkers

The Fifth Pan-African Congress, 1945: A Landmark Moment in British Radical History In October 1945, delegates from across the world gathered in Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall, half a mile south of St Peter’s Field, to take part in the Fifth Pan-African Congress.

OTD in 1945, delegates from across the world gathered in Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall in Manchester to take part in the Fifth Pan-African Congress.

Theo Williams on Black and anti-colonial politics and British radical memory.

honk shoo honk shoo

Up to 70 million tonnes of rubble, 20,000 unexploded ordnances in Gaza: Media Office There is between 65 and 70 million tonnes of rubble and debris in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office. “This rubble includes thousands of homes, facilities, and vital infrastructures deliberately destroyed by the [Israeli] occupation forces, turning the [Gaza] Strip into an environmentally and structurally devastated area and obstructing the delivery of humanitarian aid and relief efforts,” the office said in a statement. “The process of removing this massive rubble faces severe obstacles, most notably the lack of heavy equipment and machinery due to the Israeli occupation’s ban on their entry, the complete closure of border crossings, and the deliberate prevention of bringing in the materials and machinery necessary to recover the bodies of victims,” it added. The office urged Israel to open the crossings and begin the removal process. “Preliminary estimates also indicate the presence of about 20,000 unexploded ordnances, including bombs and missiles dropped by the Israeli army, posing a grave threat to the lives of civilians and field workers. These remnants require specialised engineering and security handling before any removal or reconstruction work can begin,” the office also said.

That's 200kg of rubble for every square meters
Or,
771 tonnes of rubble for every acre,
Or,
191,000 tonnes for every square kilometre
Or,
20g of rubble for every f**king square centimetre of Gaza

Supporting Annibyniaeth i Gymru in the hopes Cheshire gets scooped up by our cymrawdau when no one's looking

WIN: Victory in landmark case on gender recognition High Court rules that a trans man cannot be denied a Gender Recognition Certificate because he is trying to conceive, in an important win supported by Good Law Project.

⚖️🏳️‍⚧️ WIN: High Court rules that a trans man cannot be denied a gender recognition certificate because he is trying to conceive, in an important win supported by Good Law Project.

https://goodlaw.social/5k9b

Manchester General Members Branch - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Manchester branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). A member led, grassroots union for workers in the Manchester area of the UK.

And that's about it ...

... BUT NOT FOR LONG!

The list of awesome news from our branch is just the start - YOU can help by expanding it.

Our branch meets next on November 2nd, in person and online: We'd love to see ya there! 👇

iww.org.uk/manchester

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Manchester & Salford Anarchist Book Fair 2025

This year's anarchist book fair is sure to be a good one! We're looking forward to meeting FWs and sharing the museum with some awesome awesome anarcho-pals 🏴

📍 People’s History Museum, M3 3ER
⏰ 10am-4pm
🗓️ November 8th

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'THE PRECARIOUS MIGRANT WORKER' book launch

IWW Sheffield are hosting Panos Theodoropoulos of Interregnum media collective, for a discussion on his recently published book and its themes. 📕

📍 Broomhall Community Centre, Sheffield, S10 2FD
⏰ 7pm-8pm
🗓️ October 25th

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EVENTS 🗓️

Production: We are the Lions, Mr Manager!

The People's History Museum is holding a special theatre production to celebrate the history of the '76-'78 Grunwick Strike🎭

📍 People’s History Museum, M3 3ER
⏰ 7.30pm-9.15pm
🗓️ October 20th
🎟️ phm.org.uk/events_new/w...

Photo taken at the ACORN demo in Leeds, with all the faces of ACORN members covered with Acorns for privacy.

Spooky IWW flyers stickers, and "bail cards"

NEWS 🗞️

🤝 Our @teflunion.bsky.social comrades have announced their next wave of strike action!

🚩 FWs from the branch took part in ACORN's anti-bailiff demo in Leeds, because the struggle isn't just at work!

🎃 Our Halloween spoopy flyers arrived, ready to give the bosses a fright

IWW MANCHESTER BRANCH NEWSBLAST

Good evening, FWs! Feeling a bit seepy this evening, but so, here's this week's 💤 newsblast!

Because no matter where you doomscroll, the union isn't far behind.

💪🧵💪

How Genocide Happened

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

The general strike of 1842 As many as half a million workers may have been caught up in a strike wave which linked demands for the Charter and an end to pay cuts. This page tells the story and names the leaders.

Source and article from @libcom.bsky.social 👇

post u from a different era

btw they sent "kind regards" and I replied "regards"

smirking car

how it feels to send HR a strongly worded email and ending it with "if you wish to discuss this matter further I will need advance notice to arrange union representation"

And not just in Manchester. Catch this @townsendprod.bsky.social show on tour all around the country this autumn.

Open Letter to the Executive Leadership at Build A Rocket Boy

We stand in solidarity with employees and ex-employees at Build a Rocket Boy as they file legal claims through our union and publish an open letter, condemning the way in which they’ve been mistreated and discarded by the studio’s millionaire executives.

www.gameworkers.co.uk/barb-open-le...

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

🚨 40 Minutes to go! 🚨

Come support the teachers as they share their story 💪😍💪

Pride in our Class: New IWW Claimants’ Union. - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Prompted by the state’s relentless assault on the poor, members of the IWW have formed a Claimants’ Union, open to all workers wholly or partially dependant on benefits, in or out of work. This will i...

DID YOU KNOW? The IWW has a union branch for claimants, too!

Record numbers of us rely on benefits to get by, and too long we have neglected this struggle. No more!

We're organising claimants across the board, on the shop floor to your front door. When we say «One big union» we mean it.

👀👇

a paper flyer that reads: PUBLIC MEETING THE MALVERN HOUSE STRIKE teachers at Malvern House London are striking, a first for a UK private language school . come hear their story. Saturday 11.10.25, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. St Wilfrid's Enterprise Center, Birchvale close, Manchester M15 5BJ. hosted by the Manchester IWW and the TEFL Worker's union

today's the day!

@teflunion.bsky.social comrades are visiting from London to share their story of struggle against Malvern House 💪

Come on down to the Wobquarters at St Wilfred's Enterprise Center, Hulme from 6 til 9pm. Refreshments provided 🍕

Everyone welcome! (except the bosses, of course😎)

Philadelphia IWW Unveils Historical Marker Philadelphia I.W.W. Unveils Historical Marker and Celebrates Local 8 and Ben Fletcher’s Legacy of Militant, Industrial Organizing On Saturday June 21, 2025 the Philadelphia Historical and Museum Co…

The Phellow Workers of Philadelphia bring us the latest on a new historical marker dedicated to FW Ben Fletcher!

industrialworker.org/philadelphia...

#UnionStrong #union #workers #IWW #wobblies #labor

POV watching bureaucrats suggest another round of austerity which they hope will fix the economic mess that came with the last round of austerity they suggested