World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Zimbabwe : Strident MDC threatens to unleash war

07-06-2008 01:51 | Social Struggles | World

This just in. the MDC has threatened to unleash war IF they dont win the elections...So desperate are they to get into power, they are prepared to destroy the country.

Lest we forget:

'Arthur Mutambara, the leader of one faction of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the MDC, and one of the principals in the Save Zimbabwe Campaign that's at the centre of a storm of controversy over the Mugabe government's crackdown on opposition, boasted a year ago that he was "going to remove Robert Mugabe, I promise you, with every tool at my disposal." (1)

Educated at Oxford, the former management consultant with McKinsey & Co. was asked in early 2006 whether "his plans might include a Ukrainian-style mass mobilization of opponents of Mugabe's regime." (2)

"We're going to use every tool we can get to dislodge this regime," he replied. "We're not going to rule out or in anything the sky's the limit." (3)
etc

http://www.counterpunch.org/gowans03232007.html

Sierra Leone Movement Under Attack!

06-06-2008 19:20 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Slanderous news media has appeared in a government linked newspaper and a campaign of rumors has been initiated, obviously designed to undermine and isolate the Africanist Movement and its director, Chernoh Alpha M. Bah. Sierra Leone’s neocolonial government is apparently moving to criminalize the Africanist Movement in order to justify jailing and/or otherwise destroying these courageous leaders of our struggle for African self-determination.

$3.5 million luxury home torched in South Carolina

06-06-2008 16:23 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. - 16 partially or recently constructed luxury homes have been intentionally burned down in southeast Charlotte, western Union County, and Lancaster County, South Carolina since 2001. Authorities have yet to find who is responsible for the fires, but now believe that radical environmentalists may be behind the arsons. The most recent development to go up in smoke was a $3.5 million mansion destroyed Monday evening, see pictures below.

Dissident Island Tonight...

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My letters to GLW and John Pilger on president Mugabe

06-06-2008 02:32 | Social Struggles | World

Having been made aware of articles by Pilger and in Green Left Weekly that demonise president Mugabe of Zimbabwe, i have written the following letters to them.
People who dont know that Mugabe has been defended by Fidel Castro, who rightly sees the Zimbabwe liberation as much under threat as the Cuban one.

Bilderberg 2008 confirmed at Chantilly, Virginia nr. Washington DC

06-06-2008 01:30 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

So will Dick Cheney fulfill that little promise his puppet George W. made to the Knesset about dropping a few nasties on Iran and putting the last remaining fragments of the UN Charter through the shredder? Let's hope not.

Barack Obama’s Pernicious Refusal to Defend the Causes of Black/Brown People

05-06-2008 07:37 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Obama's "fierce" critiques of Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Father Michael Pfleger puts him in opposition to the sentiments of "millions of black people" and puts him in the camp of those "who view the majority of black pain as illegitimate." By pursuing an agenda that refuses to recognize "black" or "white" issues, Obama is playing with a 400-year-old fire.

Letter from Ivan and Bruno from the prisons of Fresnes and Villepinte

01-06-2008 23:14 | Migration | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Greetings to all friends, to all those who are not resigned to the situation in which we live: police occupation of the streets, of the cities, raids, deportations, arrests, daily difficulties, the dispossession of our lives; the situation that pushes us to cede a major part of our lives to the bosses of every genre, to those who preside over our destinies, to power. If we've taken the road of revolt, it's for all these reasons, to retake the power over our lives, for the freedom to live.

Newsletter Number Two from East Oxford Community Centre Action Group

East Oxford Community Centre Action Group
21st May 2008
Newsletter Number Two
Threats Documented…
Property development on the site of East Oxford Community Centre,
Property development on the site of East Oxford Games Hall,
Demolition of most of East East Oxford Community Centre site including the Social Club bar

Action Days for Autonomous Spaces; Berlin

31-05-2008 11:39 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

A short report on Action Days for Autonomous Spaces in Berlin

Series of arson attacks in Greece + communiqué

30-05-2008 15:47 | Social Struggles | World

From the mass media coverage (30/05/2008): A slew of blasts shocked Friday's dawn six different spots of Athens, causing damages to banks, car dealerships and New Democracy (ruling party) local offices. The police estimates it was an organized plan, since all attacks were realized within 11 minutes, from 2:03 to 2:14. Incendiary devices were set against a Geniki Bank subsidiary, an Agrotiki Bank, a post office vehicle, 6 cars of a Ford car dealership, and a local office of New democracy. On 3:28 another arson was realized against a PPC (public power company), that damaged also a nearby car. Incendiary attacks happened also in Thessaloniki, against a Millennium bank subsidiary and a Eurobank, causing damages to their facades.

A translation of the claim sent to

directactiongr@yahoo.gr:

ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative) Has Brought Nicaragua out of Darkness

29-05-2008 22:21 | Social Struggles | World

Nicaraguan foreign minister Samuel Santos explains how twice as many children are in school one year after the new Sandinista government assumed power. Nicaragua exports beans to El Salvador, Costa Rica and the US and no longer imports beans. The South is helpting itself.

Bank vehicle set on fire in solidarity with Vaggelis Botzatzis

28-05-2008 23:23 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

A translation of the claim posted on

http://athens.indymedia.org:

Ending near for Nepal monarchy (by Latuff)

28-05-2008 12:31 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

To be published in "Aristera" Communist paper in Greece:

http://www.koel.gr/

High resolution version for printing purposes here:

http://ia311332.us.archive.org/2/items/EndingNearForNepalMonarchy/Nepal.gif

Even US laws would find MDC-T subversive

28-05-2008 02:50 | Social Struggles | World

The political behaviour of MDC-T in calling for and supporting illegal economic and trade sanctions against Zimbabwe in an attempt to cripple its infrastructure and invite foreign military forces and corporations; just for a change of government, are acts of treason without question according to US law.

Ministry battles paganism in Ecuador

28-05-2008 02:43 | Social Struggles | World

As this article shows, some christian groups are seeking to undermine the social revolutions in latin america.

Citex Squat Amsterdam Illegally Evicted

27-05-2008 12:32 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

The Citex squat in Amsterdam has recently been illegally evicted.

Barnone:Films about prison

26-05-2008 15:18 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

BarNone: Films about Prisons

Sunday 15th June at the Star and Shadow Cinema

A day full of films and workshops from the UK and around the world that will tap into the visible and invisible voices behind bars.

Letter to Amnesty International

26-05-2008 07:45 | Analysis | Health | Social Struggles | World

Dear Amnesty International,

Thankyou in advance for taking the time to read this letter. It is an important subject to hundreds of thousands in Australia and millions around the world.

Activists succesfully block Cargill soyfactory in Belgium: exciting videoreport!

26-05-2008 07:20 | Bio-technology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

On April 17th 2008, activist from seven different european countries blocked the soy factory of Cargill in Ghent (Belgium) for a whole day long. Not one single truck of soy was able to enter or leave the factory.