Staying Until Redundancies Paid

The Magic Roundabout has been alive for months now: a continuous show of solidarity with the spirit of working-class direct action that brought it into life. Today, it is under threat with a repossession order filed by the landlords, the Hanslips, to the county court.

It started with people wanting to maintain a constant presence in support of the group of workers who had gone out on a limb and taken the rare and bold step of occupying the offices of the management of Vestas Blades UK. This, to protest against the unilateral closure of the biggest private employer in an area of high unemployment, in a time of recession.

Camp Vestival, Newport IOW

The people remaining on the ‘Magic Roundabout’ protest camp down on the Isle of Wight outside the now closed Vestas factory have been officially handed their eviction order by the land owner (Hanslips?), and the court hearing will be tomorrow, Tuesday 24 November.

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