World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Greece: Prisoners support and more actions on New Year's Eve

01-01-2009 22:08 | Social Struggles | World

New year's eve, most of the people choose to stay in their houses or go to bars, all celebrating the coming of the new year. However there are people who at these times choose to stand close to those who are alone, locked away and forgotten and there are people who believe that the social struggle never ends.

ALF Chile Torch Rodeo Club & ELF Mexico Sabotage Machines

01-01-2009 12:33 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

December 31, 2008 - Chile
RODEO CLUB BURNED

December 30, 2008 - Mexico
EARTH-DESTROYING MACHINES SABOTAGED

SHAC Leaflets Fresh out the printers

We have a new leaflet advertising the SHAC City Shakedown!

Around the Campaigns Thursday 31st December 2008

January to December 2008, 74 public Anti-Deportation Campaigns

2000 protest in Tel Aviv against the air strikes, 27th Dec

30-12-2008 18:28 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Two-thousand Israeli activists demonstrated on 27th December in Tel Aviv against yesterday’s Israeli attacks on Gaza, which killed at least 270 Palestinians and injured some 700. The demonstration, initiated and organized by the Israeli Coalition against the Siege on Gaza, included a march of activists through central Tel Aviv, from the Cinemateque square to the Ministry of Defence.

SHAC > PICK YOUR OWN DAY IN LEICESTERSHIRE

SHACtivists hit HLS' customers and suppliers in the Midlands

Venezuela: Trade unionism between the servile bureaucracy and the hired killers

29-12-2008 16:03 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

* In the difficult times being experienced by the Venezuelan labour movement, perhaps the most dramatic issue have been the criminal acts that kills tens of trade unionists to the passivity of the pseudo-revolutionary government and the silence of his admirers from outside the country. It speaks about it this text of El Libertario # 55, January-February 2009.

Sevilla Two need support after mass Supermarket Action.

29-12-2008 15:17 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

On 29 April 2006, more than hundred masqued precarious swarmed into the Plus supermarket in calle Arroyo, Sevilla. Among them, the Virgin of Precarity presented herself. For about one hour the partying precarious blocked the cash points, sang slogans calling for labour and social rights for all, and finally expropiated three trolleys packed with staple foods. Now the State is trying to frame and imprison two local union members for this collective action.

Protest Against UK: Puppies for Queen's Hygiene?

29-12-2008 12:00 | Repression | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

Two foot soldiers against religious extremism in southwest Asia, Hyrbyair Marri and Faiz Baluch, are being tried in London on the bidding of Pakistan army generals, though the civilian government in Islamabad wants the charges against the two dropped.

Direct Action Germany: 17th-19th December

27-12-2008 16:20 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | World

19/12/08: Unknown persons set on fire two luxury cars, Berlin
19/12/08: Luxury Condo-project attacked, Berlin
18/12/08: Colour attack on fashist shop, Nuremberg
17/12/08: Tank redesigned, Colbitz-Letzinger Heide
17/12/08: Colour to police station, Mannheim

Strategic Importance of HLS in the broader anticapitalist fight

The campaign to shut down HLS has become a "meeting engagement"-a battle neither side can afford to lose. Here is what the pro-vivisection "Foundation for Biomedical Research" (or FBR) had to say in their 2006 "illegal incidents report" about the importance of the campaign to close Huntingdon "Life" Sciences (HLS)

eMacambini: Holding onto Paradise

27-12-2008 09:14 | Ecology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

In eMacambini, South Africa, ten thousand Zulu families face eviction to make way for a Dubai funded Zulu themepark....

Their struggle against the themepark, supported by the militant shack dweller's movement Abahlali baseMjondolo, has been met with severe police violence. Peter Machen reports on why people are determined to resist forced removal.

Gun and Quarantine Fears over Camden "Super Virus Lab" - Army letters

There are plans to build a "Super Virus Lab" in Camden. This has been opposed by locals, councillors, MPs, MI5 etc on safety grounds. In the event of virus leak, as happened at government facility Pirbright there is the very real chance that the soldiers at Regents Park Barracks would have to either evacuate or quarntine the area. Please write to them and ask them to oppose planning permission.

Rwanda: No Conspiracy, No Genocide Planning....No Genocide?

26-12-2008 08:39 | History | Social Struggles | World

ICTR-ADAD Defence Counsel Peter Erlinder says that there was no "genocide" in Rwanda as mainstream media have led us to believe. If he is right and I think he is, then we will have to totally re-evaluate the lies we've been told about Rwanda in the same way we have about Iraq.

Understanding the origin of public insecurity

25-12-2008 20:44 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

* Article originally published in spanish language in El Libertario, Venezuela, # 54, September-October 2008, that analyzes and goes over the problem of criminal violence through its social impact on contemporary Venezuela.

Wednesday (12/24): Reports from Greece

25-12-2008 04:31 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Big demonstration in solidarity with the arrestees through the main shopping district. The occupations of the university buildings are ending and more actions are planned.

Fight Speciesism! #7 - Out Now

January issue of the latest anti-speciesist, anti-capitalist, abolitionist direct action news is out now.

How the Anti-Republican-War movement is destroying the Peace Movement

24-12-2008 14:14 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Social Struggles | World

The Anti-Republican-War Movement will stand down during the Obama regime and “give him a chance.” The Peace movement is still working and will continue to work no matter whom is President.

SHAC campaign against HLS continues despite the convictions says the Guardian

Today's Guardian reveals that the campaign against HLS continues regardless of the trial & convictions of Heather, Dan & Dan, Gavin, Gregg and Natatsha and Gerrah. There are fears that if people can get a 14 yr sentence for daubing cars and sending sanitary towels in the post there are people who will "do something worth getting 14 yrs for", especially if people such as Heather recieve as such.