A5, 28 pages, Black & white printing, Saddle stitched, Softcover, 2025

When one thinks of the archetypal militant worker, the milk carrier (commonly known as a "milkman") probably isn’t the first that comes to mind. Yet throughout the first half of the 20th Century, milk carriers in Forest Hill and Catford would wage militant struggles against dairy capital that would spread across the whole of London.

They went on wildcat and sympathy strikes, slow downs, confronted strikebreakers, smashed milk bottles, and blocked depots. They challenged their bosses, who forced them to work seven days a week, as well as their trade union officials, who often refused to organise official strike action by the milk carriers, despite popular enthusiasm for it.

For the first time ever, this zine tells the story of these militant milk carriers of Forest Hill and Catford.

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