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get involved! - Come to the Stop G8 Network Meeting in London

StopG8 is organising a week of action, including workshops, gigs and cultural events in June. There is also a major day of action on Tuesday 11 June, 'J11 – Carnival against Capitalism'. There's lots to do and we need more people to get involved.

Hate meetings?! No problem, we want people to come and take on jobs, you don't have to sit around in big groups discussing things. The next national meeting will be in London on 6th and 7th April (venue tba, see network23.org/stopg8/), we'll arrange the agenda so you can come along and get involved without spending hours in meetings.

I’ll miss Hugo Chavez

10-03-2013 02:03 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

I’ll miss Hugo. When I first was introduced to him in Porto Alegre in 2003, he greeted me, “Mi padre,” and said he learned a lot from me. I was dubious about this and thought he was simply buttering me up, like any two-bit politician. Then he started telling me what he learned from Development Debacle, Deglobalization, and Dark Victory. I was stupefied; the guy actually read my stuff!

The powerful influence of Levy & McRae

04-03-2013 11:53 | Globalisation | World

The powerful influence of Levy & McRae
We refer to The Drum’s article of the 19 February 2013. “Questions asked of Alex Salmond lawyer Peter Watson of Levy & McRae over Leveson role.”

‘Transatlantic Partnership’ seeks to duplicate secret Trans-Pacific Partnership

27-02-2013 20:53 | Analysis | Globalisation | Repression | World

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, an 11-country trade negotiation intended to go well beyond NAFTA, appears to the be model for proposed United States–European Union trade agreement.

UG#619 - The Financialization of Nature (And the Nature of Financialization)

A range of material for you this time as we return to our continuing reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years: Joan Baxter on land grabbing in Africa, William Black on financial control fraud and the soundtrack of a short video on the Financialization of Nature.

Integra Revolucio. Towards an international ideological and political space

This is a call for all individuals, collectives and people around the world who are working towards the construction of another society from below to come together for an international meeting. The aim is to establish the Bloc for the Integral Revolution.

The Great Tax-Cut Experiment and Corporate Taxes as % of Profits

22-02-2013 19:29 | Globalisation | Public sector cuts | Workers' Movements | World

Comparisons with Other Countries: Americans pay a smaller proportion of total income in taxes than do people in any other advanced capitalist economy. As recently as the late 1960s, taxes accounted for as high a share of national income in the United States as in Western European countries. After decades of tax cuts, however, the United States now stands out for its low taxes and small government

International Trade Union meeting/conference - Paris - March 22-24

13-02-2013 10:42 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

For anyone interested from autonomous Trade Union movements:

The following international conference has been called. The details are below and if anyone is interested you can contact NOII UK by email to find out more and for the PDF doc invitation.

So far there are:

3 delegates from Liverpool TUC (UCU, Unite and UCATT), 2 delegates from the
RMT national exec, one delegate from NUT, UCU, Save ancoats dispensary
community campaign, London Mick Dooley and some others.

Solidarity Brings Freedom and Justice for Zapatista Francisco Sántiz López

After 417 days of wrongful imprisonment, the Zapatista political prisoner is freed.

Thanks to all the people and organizations throughout the world who campaigned for his liberation.

UG#612 - From Conquistadors to Opium Wars (Debt & the Great Capitalist Empires)

This time we look at the grim consequences of the logic of imperialist exploitation for profit since the Middle Ages. As a specific example of the general principles we read about in Debt, The First 5000 Years we hear Frank Sanello on the Opium Wars between Britain and China.

The Davos Delusion: What You Need to Know

Today, British Prime Minister David Cameron joins the great and the good at the annual World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland. Today’s article pulls back the curtain on this secretive hub of neoliberalism.

The EZLN Announces Next Steps

Communiqué from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee – General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army
Mexico
.
December 30 2012.

The Zapatista's Silent Message

It is a huge demonstration of force–the largest in the entire history of the Zapatista movement–just days before the 19th anniversary of their first public appearance and 30 years since their founding.

Plea of imprisoned youth sentenced to death by Islamic regime

Please DO NOT LET THEM HANG ME!

Is this world so cruel, to watch both my cousin and I be hanged in public from a crane on the street? and say nothing? Or not to do anything?

Iraq’s leadership has failed

23-12-2012 00:57 | Globalisation | Health | Iraq | World

There is an urgent need in Iraq to discuss the direction in which the country is moving.

It's the end of THEIR world...

22-12-2012 00:33 | Climate Chaos | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

...and the end of the world as we know it.

(a)gitate, educate, organise...
...as many do and many are on the edge of doing...

share it, build it, hear it, spread it.

It won't be televised, but if it is, it's on

HIV-Negative AIDS: CFS, ME, or AIDS?

Allied NATO Government is hiding millions of NON HIV AIDS cases (like mine) under the "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)" ICD-code.

Starbucks action in Cambridge by UK Uncut

11-12-2012 18:41 | Globalisation | Public sector cuts | Cambridge | World

Last Saturday (08/12/2012) a small collective of people turned up outside the Cambridge Market Square branch of Starbucks in protest at the chain not fully paying up it's taxes for the last ten years.

Statement from Stop the G8 regarding the summit in Northern Ireland next year

We are an autonomous group of activists who have been meeting over the past 6 months to organise a resistance to the G8 summit. We have already put out a call out for a week of action against the G8. We have decided to adopt the PGA hallmarks, and we try to organise non-hierarchically using consensus, respecting the autonomy of groups and individuals involved.

Buy Nothing Day

24-11-2012 10:00 | Culture | Free Spaces | Globalisation | World

TODAY is Buy Nothing Day

World Globalisation Newswire Archive

get involved! - Come to the Stop G8 Network Meeting in London

I’ll miss Hugo Chavez

The powerful influence of Levy & McRae

‘Transatlantic Partnership’ seeks to duplicate secret Trans-Pacific Partnership

UG#619 - The Financialization of Nature (And the Nature of Financialization)

Integra Revolucio. Towards an international ideological and political space

The Great Tax-Cut Experiment and Corporate Taxes as % of Profits

International Trade Union meeting/conference - Paris - March 22-24

Solidarity Brings Freedom and Justice for Zapatista Francisco Sántiz López

UG#612 - From Conquistadors to Opium Wars (Debt & the Great Capitalist Empires)

The Davos Delusion: What You Need to Know

The EZLN Announces Next Steps

The Zapatista's Silent Message

Plea of imprisoned youth sentenced to death by Islamic regime

Iraq’s leadership has failed

It's the end of THEIR world...

HIV-Negative AIDS: CFS, ME, or AIDS?

Starbucks action in Cambridge by UK Uncut

Statement from Stop the G8 regarding the summit in Northern Ireland next year

Buy Nothing Day

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