World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

South Africa: Gangster landlord's intimidation of Shack Dweller movement

15-05-2008 22:11 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The poor of Motala Heights, affiliated to Abahlali baseMjondolo since 2006, are fighting a bitter battle against eviction against a local gangster business man and the local state. There have recently been death threats and threats of arson and the local cops are acting as the gangsters' enforcers.

Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Release
Tuesday, 13 May 2008

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**Vancover APC Fight the Olympics - London Talk

15-05-2008 14:34 | Free Spaces | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

*Vancover Anti Poverty Committee Fight the Olympics:
Public Talk on Wednesday the 21st of May*

TONIGHT !!! Interspace / LONDON preparation meeting

TONIGHT !!! Interspace / LONDON preparation meeting
@ Bowl Court Squat 8 pm

See you there !!!

Interspace: International meeting for squats and autonomous spaces

http://interspace.blogsport.de/

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Over 115 public figures join the call to recognise the Palestinian Nakba

What do Archbishop Desmond Tutu and rock legend Roger Water of Pink Floyd have in common?

Irish Redress Board Condemns Innocent People.

14-05-2008 00:34 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

An innocent person can be named by any applicant to the Redress Board and falsely accused of the most terrible sex crimes and child abuse. The unscrupulous applicant gets paid for doing so, is protected by state secrecy, and the innocent victim is destroyed for life.

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Re : The rumours etc around Camden campaign / Candy Udwin etc.

While we will reserve judgment about what is going on, Candy Udwin did in fact advise people that "they wouldn't be speaking to the Camden New Journal any more" and did describe the animals trapped in a Barnet lab as "just a load of rats" at a recent meeting. She did also try to persuade people at the meeting to accept the lab in Somers Town "in return for flats at the National Temperance site".

Earth First! Action Update: May 2008

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South Africa: Community Activist killed by police at demonstraion against Water Privatisation

10-05-2008 22:35 | Social Struggles | World

This is a translation/repost of an article found on Imc Germany, which reports that the community activist, Jan Matshobe, has been arrested by police on Tuesday, 29th of April, during a demonstration against water privatisation in Sebokeng, a township ca. 60km south of Johannesburg.

First the police released the activist, but he got then rearrested in the evening. Thursday monring he was found dead in a field.

Patra Sindane, Coalition against Water Privatisation said, that as long as an investigation would not prove the contrary, the police is responsible for the death of the comrade. The police has no scruples in using live ammunition against the protests either. A death caused by the police in prison only means a further logical step of the same tactics used by the police already against the protests in Sebokeng.

Intifada Coming Up?

08-05-2008 17:58 | Analysis | Palestine | Social Struggles | World

Palestinian intifada and civil war with Israel on the outside bombing in. Fatah to hold onto what little power it has left through guns and tyranny. Israel's 60th anniversary exploited for popular support of militarism.

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Population Against Corporation: Benefit Cd for Shell To Sea Campaign

07-05-2008 18:25 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

DiY label Front Cover Productions has just relased an archive CD as a benefit for the Shell To Sea Campaign.

The ADAPT Community: 25years of activism and counting ...

05-05-2008 17:50 | Culture | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Seel Link:-

http://www.adapt25.org

ADAPT Takes Over HHS Demands better compliance to civil rights.

Mike Leavitt Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services today agreed to meet with ADAPT in the next 40 days to discuss demands to end the continuing unnecessary institutionalization of Americans because of weak and antiquated Medicaid policy.

Maoist China foreign policy: 1970s and 1980s

05-05-2008 13:55 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The Mandate of Heaven (Excerpt). A detailed account of Maoist Chinese foreign policy is beyond the scope of this article, but some examples will illustrate the central thesis: that China’s foreign policy is in no way different from that of other world powers. The Three-Worlds Theory was used to justify Chinese alliances with right-wing reactionary governments during the 1970s and 1980s.

London mayoral elections: Labour’s neo-cons and the left apologists for Livingst

Writing in the Guardian, Seumas Milne argued, “A defeat for Livingstone would not just be a blow to the broadly defined left, working-class Londoners, women, ethnic minorities and greens. It would represent a wider defeat for progressive politics, in Britain and beyond.”

Irish Redress Board Condemns Innocent Men

04-05-2008 23:00 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Draconian Irish law is seen and felt at its worst when members of the public become victims of false allegations made against them at the Residential Institutions Redress Board,Dublin,Ireland.

Anniversary of the repression in Atenco

04-05-2008 19:38 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Yesterday an action took place in Atenco in memory of those fallen on the 3rd of May 2006 as a result of the repression of the community meted out by

Struggling for the autonomy of Venezuela’s social movements

04-05-2008 17:56 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

* This editorial comes from issue #53 (May-June 2008) of El Libertario, a Venezuelan anarchist voice of ideas and proposals for action. It confirms our commitment to autonomous social mobilization, which has already begun to express itself through concrete struggles from below, as in the recent steelworkers conflict.

Free Binayak Sen Film Festival

03-05-2008 18:13 | Health | Repression | Social Struggles | World

14 May 2008 will mark one year of imprisonment for Dr Binayak Sen, the well-known public health and civil rights activist, arrested on false charges of ‘assisting’ the Maoist insurgency in Chattisgarh.

Appeal to observe one year of Dr. Binayak Sen’s unjust detention

03-05-2008 18:06 | Health | Repression | Social Struggles | World

On May 13th/14th, 2008 Dr. Binayak Sen, an activist with a lifelong commitment to the issues of community health and human rights, will complete his first year of unjust imprisonment at the Raipur Central jail in Chhattisgarh. Organizations across the globe will be holding events on the evening of May 13th, 2008 to mark one year of his imprisonment. We appeal to your organization to hold rallies, candlelight vigils or lectures against his unconstitutional detention. Please let us know at freebsen@gmail. com if your organization would endorse this appeal.

Boris - A Taste of Things to Come

Class war is well and truly back on the streets of London after the Home Counties elected bumbling toff Boris Johnson to become Mayor.

Demonstrators outside city hall were met with TSG and FIT Teams who took it upon themselves to protect the BNP and force legal protest off the streets.

Interview with Stephen Gowans on Zimbabwe

03-05-2008 00:18 | Social Struggles | World

You may have seen or heard all the media hysteria on Zimbabwe. But you may not have heard the other side of the story. So im sending around a few items on this subject to occasion a little more balance:

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