World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Interventionist Left (IL) G8 Call to Action

The following is the English translation of the Interventionist Left's (IL) call to action against this year's G8 Summit in Heiligendamm. The IL are a German-wide network of groups (including: AKU Wiesbaden; Antifaschistische Linke Berlin (ALB); Antifaschistische Linke International (A.L.I.) Göttingen; AVANTI – Projekt undogmatische Linke; Für eine linke Strömung – FelS (Berlin); gruppe d.i.s.s.i.d.e.n.t.; the Federal Coordination, "Krieg ist Frieden" (KIF); the German-wide campaign Libertad!; Organisierte Autonomie (Nürnberg); radikale linke (rl) Nürnberg - Projekt für revolutionäre Organisierung; Rote Aktion Kornstraße (Hannover)), publishing projects (ak - analyse und kritik; Fantomas; arranca!; and so oder so) and a number of individuals. More information is available via the IL website, here: www.g8-2007.de

2007 London Mayday, Space Hijackers dancing in the streets

5pm at Canary Wharf the Space Hijackers began their Dancing in the Streets to have a bit of fun in the financial district and have a poke at the "9 to 5" working life.

Time to plan for Mayday 2008 in Liverpool, UK.

This is a call out to anarchists, and fellow travellers, nationwide and internationally.

2008 is the year Liverpool welcomes people worldwide to our city for The European City Of Culture 'celebrations'. That means you!

May Day in Oaxaca

The struggle continues in Oaxaca as Appo reterns to the zocalo.

NZ parents retain right to smack children?

02-05-2007 12:02 | Education | Health | Social Struggles | World

It is not a matter of marching, decent, good parents into court. It's a matter of leading by example. Violence does not win and smacking children is the root cause of domestice violence.

Cuba.May Day

02-05-2007 01:41 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Multitudinal parades took place in all Cuba for the International Workers Day’s. Workers, students, housewives and retired workers, massed in the main plazas to join Cuba’s struggle against terrorism...

Istanbul May Day videos

01-05-2007 23:17 | Mayday 2007 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

http://istanbul.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/184789.php

Mayday, Germany: Anti-Nazi rally turns into Riots

Germany, Dortmund. 2000 antifascists gathered in Dortmund on tuesday afternoon to protest against 1500 neo-nazis who try to use mayday for fascist propaganda. After the police declared the anti-fascist protest illegal and tried to desperse it, the protest turned into heavy riots.

on tuesday afternoon.

Mayday: Riots in ISTANBUL

In Istanbul, Turkey, mayday protests turned into heavy riots when police tried to stop several thousand protesters to reach central Taksim-place in Istanbul where in 1977 500 000 people celebrated mayday and where police-snipers killed 36.

Federal Army Harrasses Zapatista Commanders

01-05-2007 14:37 | Repression | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

Federal army aggressively harasses Zapatista Commanders and delegates of the Other Campaign.

Students Re-Occupy Radio Universidad in Oaxaca City Today

01-05-2007 01:41 | Oaxaca Uprising | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Today Radio Universidad in Oaxaca City was re-occupied by students who sypathize with the APPO (Assemblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca) for the first time sinse November.

More about precarity: Mayday Milan Call

The indymedia.org.uk feature on Mayday speaks of "the precarious". In Milan, the Mayday activists have sent out a Mayday call that explains a bit more about the condition of precarity. Its about Italy, and each Mayday has its own story, but they are connected in many ways, too.

Mayday Teachers March in Oaxaca, Government Workers break police barricades

On 1 May 2007, as the world marches for Labour Day and Workers Rights, Oaxaca, Mexico, will see Section 22 of the teachers union march on the zocalo.

Work as Fetish

30-04-2007 15:25 | Mayday 2007 | Social Struggles | World

What is good for the economy and what is good for people diverge more and more! Nevertheless the opposite is drummed into people.. Capitalism only knows the irrational end-in-itself, making more money out of money until the end of time.. Capitalism strikes its own limits.

Estonia, Talinn: Riots- 1 dead, hundreds hurt, city devasted

29-04-2007 15:47 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Talinn looks like a city in war: shops, buildings are burning. Everywhere people are beaten by police.
Yesterday night thousands of people rioted because the governemnt brought to fall "the sovjet soldier" - a monument in the middle of the city that honoured the anti-fascist soldiers of the sovjet army who freed Talinn from the nazis in WW II.

Asymmetry delivers Victory

29-04-2007 08:46 | Analysis | Other Press | Social Struggles | World

From Sun tzu to today’s flying LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) the fundamental decisive factors determining the outcome of war have never changed – though some ‘superpowers’ would have us all believe otherwise. The determining factors are and have always been, intelligence, skill, ingenuity and tactics – all other factors, including high technology, are secondary. The outcome of War is determined by and anchored in the warrior.

The Market is a Universal Totalitarian Religion

27-04-2007 17:17 | Social Struggles | World

Money replaces God and has become our new religion, a universal totalitarian religion that never existed before.. Commodification of goods is more important than the goods themselves.

Is Leadership Extinct in America?

27-04-2007 16:49 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | World

This is an overview of the trend seen in America of a failure of leadership during times of civil emergency. Law Enforcement is included. Following the Sept 11th attack, the US Federal govt has infused huge sums of money into law enforcement and even civilian training.
It appears that the answer to leadership in times of crisis in all sectors of US society
is to be found in the plain site, but is being missed by most citizens.

Election Circus Comes to Town! Brummagem Star issue 1

Roll Up! Roll Up! The political equivalent of Billy Smart's Circus with be in your area! Clowns to the Left and Jokers to the Right, can the rest please stay in line and do as you are told. Thank you and have a nice day.