World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Class War: Bash The Rich Video Rush

05-11-2007 19:33 | Repression | Social Struggles | London | World

Rapid cut of footage from Saturday 3 November 2007.

Mapuche child from the Temucuicui community gunned down by Chilean police

05-11-2007 18:54 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Prior to the violent raid that was carried, Tuesday 30th October, in the Mapuche community of Temucuicui, by the institution of Armed Police of Chile, where the minor of 10 years old, Patricio Queipul Millanao, was arterially wounded by the bullets that they cowardly and indiscriminately fired straight at the boy's body.

Show Master Democracy or Social forum in exSU

04-11-2007 09:14 | Analysis | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

What happened on 3rd of December to the vital Russian-Ukrainean Social movements in Moscow is hopefully just a warning case. If not, the show-down of the Moscow meeting at the posh club “Bi-Lingua” yesterday proves that the Forum process in the former Soviet Union is about to be high-jacked by a professorial self-made man. => How can we restitute the power of direct democracy and participatory conversion in our movement?

New repression in Oaxaca

One year on from the PFP'd defeat, the repression is back.

Remembering Rooley Moor’s “Cotton Famine Road”

03-11-2007 08:59 | Ecology | History | Social Struggles | World

Abraham Lincoln and Lancashire cotton workers:

Ongoing research by Ding Quarry protestors is confirming the historic importance of the upper sections Rooley Moor Road above the Spodden Valley, known for generations as the “Cotton Road” or “Cotton Famine Road”.

The Crooked Irish Residential Institutions Redress Board

03-11-2007 01:52 | Other Press | Social Struggles | World

It encourages unscrupulous people to lie and give false statement against unsuspecting innocent people.
Solicitors,Barristers and the Judiciary are adversely involved,and knowingly work with a system that is fundamentally flawed and in breech of National and International Human and Civil Rights.

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demonstaration against Camden Danger Lab

A mixture of groups have organised ademo at Camden Town Hall against a "danger lab" to be built in Camden!!
5th November Camden Town Hall Judd St London WC1

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Forum: 90 years since the Russian Revolution

02-11-2007 21:40 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | London | World

Spartacist League Forum

90 years since the Russian Revolution

How the Bolsheviks led the working class to power

We fight for new October Revolutions!

2 pm, Saturday 3 November
Room 2C, University of London Union
Malet Street, London WC1
Nearest Tube: Russell Square or Goodge Street

For details phone: 020 7281 5504
E-mail:

WorkersHammer@compuserve.com

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Scrap CrossRail hole plot - latest demands to UK Parliament

02-11-2007 12:44 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London | World

Next week's scheduled announcement in the UK Houses of Parliament of the parliamentary/legislative programme ‘[called 'the Queen’s Speech'] is expected to include the current CrossRail Bill as a carry -over from the last session of parliament for it to be given further approval in the next session. The CURRENT CrossRail hole Bill-promoting minister at the UK Department for Transport Tom Harris has already been put on notice that he was out of order to have tried to pre-exempt and to curb serious scrutiny of the Bill in the Upper Chamber [House of Lords] Khoodeelaar! today publishes the texts of the summary of the latest demands for the scrapping of the Bill, not just for its scrutiny.

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Protest at Camden Town Hall re : Danger Lab [To be built] 5th November 6.30

Protest against "The world's largest virus containment facility /animal testing lab"to be built in Camden - on Somers Town Council Estate.
The protest is Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, Camden, London WC1.
Monday November 5th 6.30pm
MI5 leaked the news to the Evening Standard newspaper amid security concerns when the NIMR / MRC bid for the land and also when they bought land on Hampstead Road where work has already started......

Protest against "world's largest ever animal testing lab & virus containment lab

The protest is against the sale of govt land to the NIMR / MRC - in order to build the world's largest ever animal testing lab & virus containment facility. The site is at Brill Place, Camden - London, on a council house estate & very close to Kings Cross / Channel Tunnel link. MI5 leaked the news amid security concerns.
Protest at Camden Town Hall - Judd Street - {off of Euston Road}. Camden London WC1 - 5th November 6.30pm

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A Sussex police chief gets some worrying instant karma

A Sussex policeman has been discharged from hospital after an attack by about 50 cows left him with four broken ribs and a punctured lung.

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Peter Hain cooks up wrong figures to make Gordon Brown come unstuck at last!

29-10-2007 23:43 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

On 25 September 2007 we exclusively said on Indymedia this:

“Watch this space
Especially to read about how Peter Hain will make Gordon Brown look a fool just when Brown needs to convince 'Britain' of how reliable he is!”

Anarchist Bookfair 2007

The umpteenth Bookfair at the umpteenth venue.

Slow Genocide

28-10-2007 22:10 | Social Struggles | London | World

Burma Update etc

Burma: Total HQ and petrol station targeted again in London

28-10-2007 11:14 | Repression | Social Struggles | London | World

Protesters picketed Total's London HQ and the Total petrol station near Baker Street this week.

Nancy Pelosi, Public Enemy Number One

28-10-2007 00:14 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

Pelosi and her leadership clique have never had the slightest intention of seriously opposing George Bush, since they are quite content with a status quo of endless war, half of New Orleans abandoned, true universal health care on perpetual hold, and a growing police state. Every constituency of the Democratic Party has been betrayed, with the complicity of Pelosi and her crowd.

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Sunday 28th: People in Common / Burma Picnic

26-10-2007 08:11 | Social Struggles | London | World

Parliament Square Monthly Picnic

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The Myth of “Co-Management” in Venezuela: Reflections on Alcasa and Invepal

25-10-2007 12:46 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

* With a lot of rhetoric and propaganda the Chavez administration has advanced different examples of co-management which, they claim, demonstrate their desire to transform Venezuela’s relations of production. A compañero from Europe visited us recently and got to know two of the most celebrated cases: Alcasa and Invepal. Here is the report he prepared for El Libertario # 51 about the actual working conditions in the country’s most “important” co-managed businesses.

Noon Today: China/Burma Embassy Protest

24-10-2007 07:47 | Social Struggles | London | World

Now that Burma is no longer in the newspapers every day, we need to make
sure the world does not forget what has happened, and that pressure on the
regime continues to grow. Every day more activists are being arrested, many will face torture.

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