Print Subversion in the Wapping Dispute

Other Resources


Further Reading
How the Strike was Provoked
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-aca3-how-the-strike-was-provoked-1

Anarchist Communists in the Wapping Dispute and Picket
https://libcom.org/forums/history/anarchistscommunists-wapping-dispute-28042006

The Wapping printers' dispute, 1986-7 - Sam Lowry
https://libcom.org/history/1986-1987-wapping-printers-strike

Obituary of Arnie Mintz
https://www.marxists.org/history/canada/socialisthistory/Remember/Profiles/Mintz-Arnie.htm

Angry Workers, 'Wapping 86 and Beyond How Have Class Relations Changed'
https://bit.ly/32joqM8

Andrew Neil, then Editor of the Sunday Times, horribly celebratory scab piece.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2006/jan/15/rupertmurdoch.pressandpublishing

Keith Sutton (editor of the Wapping Post), 'Here is the news for the Wapping strikers', January 19, 2006
https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/here-is-the-news-for-the-wapping-strikers/

The News on Sunday Project
https://bigflameuk.wordpress.com/author/happyhenry/

Big Flame and The News on Sunday
https://bigflameuk.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/the-news-on-sunday-project/

25 Years Anniversary Wapping Exhibition in New Cross 2011
https://transpont.blogspot.com/2011/10/wapping-exhibition-in-new-cross.html

Marx Memorial Library News International Dispute Exhibition
https://www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/project/wapping-dispute/news-international-dispute-exhibition

Today in Publishing History: Leftwing Tabloid News on Sunday Launched 1987
https://pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/today-in-publishing-history-leftwing-tabloid-news-on-sunday-launched-1987/"

Photobook on Wapping by Nick Oatridge
https://issuu.com/audsley/docs/wapping1 / http://www.coldtype.net/Assets/pdfs/Wapping1.pdf

Red Pepper piece commemorating Wapping
https://www.redpepper.org.uk/wapping-the-workers-perspective/

News International Exhibition at the Marx Memorial Library 2011
https://www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/project/wapping-dispute/news-international-dispute-exhibition

The Wapping Dispute: The Workers' Story events at Tower Hamlets Archive 1 Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
https://www.towerhamletsarts.org.uk/?cid=58742

Special Branch's papers related to the Wapping Strike
http://specialbranchfiles.uk/wapping-strike-story


Additional photos
http://www.wappingdispute.co.uk/


Film and Video
Wapping - the Workers' Story (2020)
By Christopher Reeves/Platform Films
(70 mins)
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/wappingtheworkersstory

Banging Out!: Fleet Street Remembered (2016)
By Digital Works
(52 mins)
A documentary film based on these oral history interviews was launched at St Brides in the summer of 2014.
http://www.digital-works.co.uk/bangingout/film.html

Despite the Sun (1986)
By Spectacle Films
(51 mins)
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/despitethesun

Short video by the Marx Memorial Library, about their Wapping archive and exhibition:
(5.12 mins)
https://player.vimeo.com/video/485424962