World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

150 NGOs slam execution of Kurdish activists by Iran's islamic regime

Demonstration against Atrocity of barbaric Islamic regime in Iran

Erbil, Jan.23 (AKnews)- The Federation of the Non-governmental Organizations in the Kurdistan Region sent Sunday a protest letter to the president and the senior officials of the Islamic regime of Iran, condemning the execution of Kurdish activists in Iran.

http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/3/212751/

Phuck The Scum State Wankers Club I'm Voting Horse Outside

In our pup tent we can suck down home brews
And remember money broker Cowen--
And his no-down loan that brought the bad news
That sent us to the street in our home town

Later on we inquire
How our dream so backfired
We followed the rules
We're feelin' like fools
Living in a wanker wonderland

Dixie's Vintage Stall Cambridge's Last Fur Retailer

Vintage fur perpetuates the fur industry, as fur is make 'acceptable' in the vintage scene, it finds it's way on to the catwalk in the form of new fur. Indeed new 'imperfect' fur is often passed off as vintage by manufactures and finds it's way into vintage retailers.

Dissident Island Radio 21 January - ready for download

22-01-2011 17:12 | Free Spaces | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | World

Stop GM // Bloomsbury Freeskool // Anti Cuts Updates // Free radio veteran in Amsterdam // Thessaloniki 4 trial update // Drowned City // Sarah Bear

National Day of Protest Against Benefit Cuts - 24/01 - latest news

The poster reads: “60,000 Reichs Marks is the cost to the people’s community for this hereditary disabled over a lifetime; People’s comrade, that comes from YOUR gold. Read ‘New People’ – The monthly periodical of the Political Office of the National Socialist German Workers’s Party.”

“The cost of disability benefits is simply UNSUSTAINABLE” – Maria Miller, Minister for Disabled People in an interview with the tabloid press in November 2010.

just a thought ...

Who were these people - who was this woman? Winston Green in the 70s.

Support Kashmir - 26th January "Black Day" protest

22-01-2011 00:26 | Palestine | Social Struggles | Technology | World

On the 26th January kashmiris are protesting against the occupation,
they are calling the day "black day"

United States Has a Choice in Tunisia

21-01-2011 12:31 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

The Tunisian Intifada has proved that democracy and regime change can be homemade, without any U.S. intervention. Ironically any such U.S. intervention now is viewed in the region as a threat of a counterrevolution that would preempt turning the Intifada into a revolution. U.S. hands-off policy could be the only way to democracy in Tunisia. But a hands-off policy is absolutely not a trade mark of U.S. regional foreign policy. However, the United States has a choice now in Tunisia, but it is a choice that pre-requisites a U – turn both in the U.S. approach to Arab democracy and in its traditional foreign policy.

International Week of Direct Action against SHELL begins!

Good Morning, We have just heard that Shell oil have received permission to complete their raw gas pipeline in Co. Mayo Ireland.

Shell given permission to complete Gas pipeline in Mayo

This morning we heard that An Bord Pleanála (the Irish planning board) has granted Shell oil permission to finish their raw gas pipeline.

Attack in Bristol for Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

18-01-2011 12:53 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

In the early morning of 17 January, two telecommunications utilities vehicles, of British Telecom, were set on fire in Bristol.

Three undercover political Police unmasked as infiltrators into UK Anarchist, Anti-Fascist and Climate Justice movements.

We have reposted with updates and corrections, this has many changes from previous post!

please flag up any mistakes and we will up date in 24 hours or so. We still need more factual information about their activities. The purpose of this post/thread is to create as clear a picture of the infiltrators as possible for activists worldwide.

If you wish to post about the bourgeois press then please post here.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/472102.html

Rising Tide 7 - Australia

17-01-2011 20:06 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Social Struggles | World

Background - Seven Australian Rising Tide activists are being pursued by Port Waratah Coal Services, which is made up of Rio Tinto and Xstrata, for US$525,000 in "victim's compensation" as a result of a non-violent blockade of the world's largest coal port on September 26 last year. For full details visit -

http://risingtide7.wordpress.com/

PARIS FRANCE infiltration information

17-01-2011 13:14 | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

This was published as comment on 15th jan

We republish here and will follow with a reply

Three undercover political Police unmasked as infiltrators into UK Anarchist, Anti-Fascist and Climate Justice movements

Statement for translation.

For attention of all international activist groups and movements regarding known involvement of UK undercover political police.
We need translation into French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Polish, Russian, and any other languages people think are relevant. Please post translations here

Tunisian Revolution can inspire the world

15-01-2011 17:06 | Social Struggles | World

THE INITIAL phase of the remarkable Tunisian Revolution of 2011 is now complete.

Mook Vintage Closed Down? New Cambridge Fur Target!

Mook Vintage (fur sellers) closed down, Dixie's Vintage stall maybe the last fur seller in Cambridge. Police fail to intimidation protesters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2UCb2NXJgg

Obama Capitulates Again

15-01-2011 13:45 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

"Several liberal media commentaries deliberately disguised the political significance of Obama’s speech, which was an abject surrender to the arrogant demands of the ultra-right that there should be no accountability for the Tucson events.
E. J. Dionne of the Washington Post claimed that Obama “pointedly took no sides on the controversy over the role of vitriolic politics in the tragedy.” This is flatly untrue, and the columnist knows it. Obama provided an amnesty for the right and effectively repudiated his own liberal supporters."

"Indignez-vous!" 600,000 sold, shaking France &world (Translation here) Hessel

Perhaps the timing of the book, released during troubled times of economic crisis and inequality has rung a bell for the people of France. Maybe it’s the fact that the author is a holocaust survivor almost a century old -- former spy, escapee from a concentration camp, then Resistance fighter for the rest of WWII -- which lends credibility to his message. Maybe it's the poetic prose. Whatever the reason, Indignez Vous! by Stéphane Hessel is the #1 bestselling book on Amazon.fr, and has been for some time. The book has sold over 600,000 in just three months.