Getting propeganda into workplaces

[alhop10]

A couple of us have been trying to get leaflets into the local jaguar/landrover factory where the workers are facing pay cuts and redundancies but we keep getting moved on by security and as its private property we're not really anywhere legally.
Anyone got any good ideas for getting information to workers in medium or high security workplaces?
Im sure there are many situations like this around the world right now so an exchange of tactics could be really useful. Cheers.

[Red Robespierre]

If you're trying to avoid any legal problems (i.e. arrest) then I would advise staging some sort of demonstration outside the factory, accessible to workers, but on public property. Get a sizable crowd and even perhaps send a press-release to the bourgeois media to get them to come to the event (television news cameras always help bring a crowd).

Employ large, simple visuals that speak to the workers and get their attention so as to bring them over to you and your comrades. Engage in direct agitation and conversation with them using your other propaganda materials to back you up.

The workers may be intrigued to know that others are interested in their plight, which is important for establishing the necessary credibility and relationship to effectively influence them with your propaganda.

[alhop10]

That will definately be what we will do if there are mass lay-offs but im talking about before that situation really. It would be hard to get motivation for a protest at this stage what with gaza deomstrations and others in our area. Its a logistical issue of actually communicating with the workers i suppose. We thought about getting on the early morning busses to the factories or leaving leaflets on windscreens in the staff car park but hesitated because it might just mainly annoy people.

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

some members of LCAP managed to leaflet workers by quite simply distracting security.

[BPSocialist]

Propaganda is a negative word, and makes people think Georbells and the Nazis. Let's call it something else. Motivational Material?

[Red Robespierre]

Propaganda is a value-neutral term in and of itself, its negative connotations derived mostly in the West after WW2.

And despite everything else, Goebbels was a genius in understanding the collective consciousness. His material was superb, from a propaganda point of view, and I strongly urge Marxists to familiarize themselves with his techniques for mass persuasion.

I also recommend the works of Jacques Ellull and Edward Bernays. The latter was the nephew of Freud and, though an unapologetic agent of the bourgeoisie and capitalism, knew better than most on how to influence public opinion and attitude formation.

[Circle E Society]

Maybe some IWW stuff!

As far as tactics. Put leaflets under the windsheild wipers of cars! I'll come up with other ideas if you dont like that one but that one seems to be the most obvious to me right now.

[alhop10]

As far as tactics. Put leaflets under the windsheild wipers of cars! I'll come up with other ideas if you dont like that one but that one seems to be the most obvious to me right now

Yeh good call, the guy i was with was afraid that would piss them off but i think its the best plan.


Propaganda is a negative word, and makes people think Georbells and the Nazis. Let's call it something else. Motivational Material?

I don't see anything wrong with using the word 'propaganda'. 'Motivational Material' just sounds creepy and Orwellian to me.

[Circle E Society]

Yeh good call, the guy i was with was afraid that would piss them off but i think its the best plan.


I think theyd be cool with it so long as the material was presented in such a way open to folks of all poliitcal beliefs. I mean I dunno where you live but if its some place conservative dont go putting "socialist automakers union"(just a silly example) on their car.

The other thing is if you write any of the literature yourself write on top something assuring like "Just some ideas from the community to you"