NAE PASARAN: workers' action, internationalism and anti-union laws

Organised by The Clarion and the Free Our Unions campaign (https://theclarionmag.org/campaigning-against-anti-union-laws)

The film Nae Pasaran tells the story of how in 1974 workers in East Kilbride took action to refuse to work on warplane engines intended for the fascistic military dictatorship that had taken power in Chile, bloodily overthrowing a left government, the previous year.

This kind of solidarity is an inspiration and an example for us in today's even more internationally interconnected world - but it is illegal under the anti-union laws imposed by General Pinochet's friend Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. How do we defy those laws and get them scrapped? How do we rebuild the kind of strong workplace organisation that made such action possible? How do we infuse the labour movement with genuine internationalism?

To celebrate May Day and celebrate the heroism of working-class activists - in history and now, in Britain and across the world - The Clarion and the Free Our Unions campaign are holding a showing of the film, political discussion and social.

All proceeds will be split between Free Our Unions and the Deliveroo workers' strike fund
* Tickets £3 unwaged/school students; £5 low waged/uni students; £7.50 waged; £10 solidarity ticket

The venue is five minutes from Kings Cross station https://www.thechapelkingscross.co.uk/findus

For more information, email theclarionmag@gmail.com