Liverpool Social Struggles Newswire Archive

11-11-2007 23:51 | 1 comment

Liverpool airport workers vote for strike

Liverpool John Lennon Airport workers have voted overwhelmingly to strike after refusing a pay offer. Read more >>

07-11-2007 20:07

Examining the 2007 Royal Mail dispute

Rob Ray explains the introduction of competition to the postal service, and why it will be the government, not postal workers, who the public have to thank for the loss of cheap post and the universal service. Read more >>

07-11-2007 14:13 | 1 comment

Challenging the Boundaries: A Single State in Palestine/Israel - 17/18 November

We would like to draw your attention to an innovative approach to the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Challenging the Boundaries: A Single State in Palestine/Israel will be explicitly addressing the fundamental causes of the conflict by examining an idea that is generating more widespread interest than ever – a single state for all in the area. Read more >>

07-11-2007 01:55

Reel News video: Postal Workers Dispute - Reject the Deal!

21 minute video showing the recent official and unofficial strike action in the postal workers dispute. Read more >>

06-11-2007 20:14

3 November Anti-Racist Demonstration

Anti-Racist campaigners take to the streets in Manchester in support of the rights of Asylum Seekers in opposition to Labour racism. Read more >>

26-10-2007 21:15

New York Communities Together to Fight Gentrification

Zapatismo in Spanish Harlem
The Movement for Justice in El Barrio, Inspired by the Zapatista Other Campaign, Brings New York Communities Together to Fight Gentrification

By R.J. Maccani
Special to The Narco News Bulletin

http://www.narconews.com/Issue47/article2859.html Read more >>

23-10-2007 16:15 | 2 comments

SWP collaborates in union’s betrayal of postal strikes

On October 17, the web site of Britain’s Socialist Workers Party published the first detailed depiction of what was then only a proposed management offer to settle the ongoing post dispute. It was published as the response “from Socialist Worker supporters in the Royal Mail” and was only available online, as it came out after the party’s newspaper had gone to press. Read more >>

23-10-2007 16:14

Oppose efforts by Communication Workers Union to end postal strike

The Communication Workers Union executive has endorsed a rotten deal with the Royal mail to bring an end to the postal workers’ dispute. Read more >>

22-10-2007 22:30

The Vícam Declaration: “we will defend mother earth with our lives”

Reports from the Encuentro of the Indigenous People of América are still coming in. I was hoping to share with you an English version of the Encuentro's "Vícam Declaration," but I've not yet found it available in print...and the task of translating from the audio recording seemed too daunting. So here in its place is a solid piece by Hermann Bellinghausen: Read more >>

22-10-2007 07:14

Sussex students pass motion in support of posties

The University of Sussex Students' Union just passed a motion of support for the strike, with reference to scab student labour in Liverpool, and with the intention of increasing student awareness about union organising. A letter is also being written to be sent to the Liverpool students' unions informing them about this and asking them to take some sort of action. Read more >>

20-10-2007 15:52

Rolls Royce to close Merseyside plant

Workers at the Rolls Royce plant in Netherton today claimed the company had given them notice to close the factory with the loss of 220 jobs. Read more >>

18-10-2007 15:43 | 2 comments

Reject the deal - restart the strikes

Sell out deal is a stab in the back for striking postal workers and threatens to derail the strike - for a rank and file conference of postal workers to campaign for a no vote and fight to restart the strikes! Read more >>

15-10-2007 19:15

Encounter of the Indigenous Peoples of America

Picture from the third day of the indigenous gathering Read more >>

15-10-2007 17:15

Anti-racism march! Defend all asylum seekers! 3 Nov 2007

There will be an anti-racism march in Manchester on Saturday 3 November 2007, in defence of all asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants and all victims of racism. Read more >>

15-10-2007 16:46 | 1 comment

Postal union agrees to sell-out deal with Royal Mail

By means of legal threats and with the connivance of the trade union bureaucracy, Royal Mail hopes to end the postal dispute and achieve its aim of overturning working conditions and pension rights, and eliminate tens of thousands of jobs. Read more >>

12-10-2007 20:04

Demands for government intervention aimed at strangling post dispute

As we go to press, talks are under way between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU), as unofficial action that began at postal sorting depots in London, Glasgow and Liverpool Wednesday spread to several other offices by Thursday morning. Read more >>

12-10-2007 16:20

Few more picture from Vicam

Encuentro Vicam, 11 de octubre Read more >>

12-10-2007 16:03

Picture of the indigenous encounter, Vicam, Sonora

12 October 1942 Read more >>

12-10-2007 09:03

Vicente Fox disrupted in NYC by questions about Oaxaca and Brad Will

A book signing at Barnes and Noble turned tense when audience members
asked about Brad Will… Read more >>

11-10-2007 15:57 | 1 comment

Post workers face political struggle against Royal Mail/Labour government

Unofficial strike action broke out at several postal sorting offices across the UK early Wednesday morning in response to deliberate provocations by Royal Mail. Read more >>