Close to 500 Liverpool dockworkers have been waging a two-year long struggle against the use of casual, part-time scab labour in the Port of Liverpool, England. The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company fired the dockworkers when they refused to cross a picket line and replaced them with part-time scab labour. The struggle in Liverpool is growing. Dockworkers around the world are staging international days of action in solidarity, which have included actions by dockworkers and their supporters in Halifax, St. John, Montreal and Vancouver.

The Liverpool Dockers Solidarity Network is now organizing a two-week Canada-wide speaking tour featuring two members of the Liverpool dockworkers' wives and partners' support group, Women of the Waterfront.

There will be two events in Toronto:

* BENEFIT VIDEO SCREENING *
A screening of "The Flickering Flame" by acclaimed film-maker Ken Loach ("Riff-Raff", "Land and Freedom" etc.). This film about the Liverpool dockers' battle lets the fired dockworkers and their supporters speak for themselves.

Fri. Nov. 14
7:30PM
$5 requested (no one turned away)

* PUBLIC FORUM *
Making it Global: The Ongoing Struggle of the Liverpool Dockworkers

Valerie Bibby and Marie Eustace of Liverpool's Women of the Waterfront
report on the dockworkers' struggle. This forum will relate the experiences of the dockers and their families, and put their struggle in the global context of privatization and downsizing.

Mon. Nov. 24
7PM

BOTH EVENTS AT THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CENTRE, 33 ST. GEORGE STREET
(1 block north of College St.) and sponsored by the University of Toronto Women's Centre and the Liverpool Dockers' Solidarity Network, with support from CUPE Ontario Division Women's Committee.

For more information and for childcare arrangements, please call (416) 538-0146.

For information about tour events outside Toronto, please e-mail <praxis1871@aol.com>

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