The World is Our Picket Line

"We've got plenty of firewood and we're getting a 12 foot Christmas tree with lights. We're digging in. We're here for the duration.

"We've got nothing else to lose. If it's gonna be Christmas next year we're still here, we're hanging in."

Seaforth gate, 20 November 1995

• Red light over Seaforth
  (Micky Tighe, 20 Nov 95)
• "Me on a picket line!"
  (Cathy Dwyer, 21 Nov 95)
• Internationalism our only hope
  (Richie Gerrard, 20 Nov 95)
• Diary of a long-range picket
  (Bobby Morton Jan 96)

• On the Waterfront of the World (21 Feb 96)

• The world is our picket line (Jan 96)
• Gothenburg to hit ACL (Jun 96)
• ACL quits Liverpool (21 Jun 96)
• Mersey Shares Tumble (21 Jun 96)
• Mersey Docks sues ILA (Jun 96)
• Dockers in Montreal crane (15 Jul 96)
• Swedish dockers hit ACL (30 Jul 96)
• Spanish solidarity strikes (29 Oct 96)

• Sheerness dawn picket (10 Jan 96)
• VW-Audi embroiled (11 Jan 97)
• Axial men meet VW reps (21 Feb 97)
• Sheerness drivers win (25 Apr 97)

• Liverpool stewards meet (11 Jan 97)

Dockers stand in silence as the funeral cortege of retired docker John Lee passes the picket line. John supported the strike and it was his last request to be driven past the port.

• Halifax picket ACL (9 Sep 97)
• Belfast hits Coastal (9 Sep 97)
• Sheerness picket as
  DTI occupied (29 Sep 97)
• Dublin blockaded (28 Oct 97)
• Cardiff shut down (18 Nov 97)
• Supporters Occupy
  Cardiff Cranes (24 Nov 97)

• Docker run over (5 Mar 96)
• Gun-toting scab let off (6 Nov 96)
• Port Police Wade In (25 Jun 97)
• Police Batter Docker (2 Jul 97)
• Canadian Autoworkers protest
  to Merseyside Police (Jul 97)
• Picket celebrates 69% NO vote (23 Oct 97)
• Unexpected Guests at
  Mersey Docks (5 Dec 97)