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Israel: northern Israel Railways workers in wildcat strike

Israel Railways workers in Haifa conducted a wildcat strike this morning, Thursday Feb 5th, in response to fraud charges against official union members, and replacement of workers not loyal to management.

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NCADC News Service Thursday 5th February 2009

DR Congo: Rights Panel Condemns Abuses Against Children

Asylum [Iraqi's, bringing them in one door, kicking them out of the other]

Three quarters of refugee women 'have been raped'

Climate Camp hits the City of London

Climate Camp hits the City of London on April Fools Day, the eve of the G20 leaders' London Summit. Join us! Climate camp 2009 /// Stopping carbon markets /// Because nature doesn't
do bailouts.

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Misogynistic Hindu thugs get bolder

05-02-2009 15:09 | Culture | Gender | Social Struggles | World

On January 24th the little-known group Sri Ram Sena (The army of Lord Ram) attacked a number of women who were drinking alcohol in a bar in Mangalore: "The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi says the attack - which was filmed and then broadcast on national television - has shocked many Indians. Television pictures showed the men chasing and beating up the panicking women - some wearing skirts. Some of the women, who tripped and fell, were kicked by the men."

Anti-Contraception Republicans = Anti-Stimulus Votes

Republicans, backed by the Christian right, have made it clear that they oppose the pro-contraception provisions in the stimulus package that allow states to cover family planning services and supplies to low-income women who are not otherwise eligible for Medicaid, and give states the option to provide such coverage without obtaining a waiver.

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Britain vs. “Extreme Pornography”

Just as the U.S., with the surprising help of the Supreme Court, is starting to emerge from its shell of puritan genophobia, Britain is persisting in its state of paranoia and censorship with the passage of a new law, the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act, that will make possessing ``extreme pornography'' (''any extreme image produced solely or principally for the purpose of sexual arousal'') illegal, as reported by Telegraph UK. In addition, another law, the Coroners and Justice Bill, will ban possession of any image involving sexual activity and children.

But at what cost?

I agree that the Iraqi elections at first sight seem like a success. And the news so far is very good. All the Islamic parties lost ground, especially that associated with the so-called ‘Shia firebrand’, Moqtada al-Sadr, whose share of the vote went down from 11% to 3%. The principal Sunni Islamic party, the Islamic Party of Iraq, was wiped out. Instead, a new generation of Iraqi politicians is coming forward. Many of them are young and secular. They have lived always in Iraq, not in exile; they are Iraqis with local roots first and foremost - they are not pan-Arabs or pan-Islamists. Nor do they have connections to the US. I hate to rain on the parade but that doesn't yet negate the ongoing cost of this huge blunder.

I was fairly certain that one of us would be shot today.

05-02-2009 11:53 | Palestine | Repression | Social Struggles | World

This morning (Tuesday 3rd February, 2009), farmers from Abassan Jadiida (New Abassan), to the east of Khan Younis , the southern region, returned to land they’d been forced off of during and following the war on Gaza. The continual shooting at them by Israeli soldiers while they work the land intensified post-war on Gaza. The Israeli soldiers’ shooting was not a new thing, but a resumption of the policy of harassment that Palestinians in the border areas have been enduring for years, a harassment extending to invasions in which agricultural land, chicken farms, and the houses in the region have been targeted, destroyed in many cases.

Open Gaza Borders

05-02-2009 11:50 | Palestine | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Gaza is in the grip of a man-made humanitarian crisis. Thousands of tons of food, medical and emergency shelter aid including blankets and mattresses, is being denied entry through crossings by both the Israeli and Egyptian governments.

Waterford Crystal: ‘We’re occupying this plant to save our jobs’

Workers at the Waterford Crystal factory in Ireland have delivered a powerful example of how to take on the recession – they are occupying their plant to keep it open. The factory is owned by Waterford Wedgewood, which went into receivership on 5 January. The receiver suggested that the plant move to a three-day week. Workers were reluctant to go along with this and were suspicious of the motives behind it. Many believed that the factory would close as soon as they were out the door. It turned out the receiver had the same idea.

Occupation of the opera house in Athens

05-02-2009 10:32 | Culture | Social Struggles | World

the struggle never ends

Israeli blockade stops aid to Gaza

Israel and its Egyptian ally are continuing to hamper the entry of desperately needed humanitarian goods into the Gaza Strip after Israel’s assault on the Palestinians there

Emergency Solidarity Appeal from General Union of Guadeloupe Workers (UGTG)

Dear comrades and friends,The French colonial authority is getting ready to suppress the workers, youth, and people of Guadeloupe as well as their organizations.In response to the call of 47 trade unions, political organizations, consumer associations, popular organizations, and cultural associations, a general strike began on 20 January 2009, expressing the general discontent of the masses of workers, who are sick and tired of the suffering they face.

Obama congratulated for overturning global abortion funding ban

President Obama has been widely congratulated by women's groups and family planning organisations for overturning the ban on U.S. federal funding for providing abortion care or counselling abroad.

Save the squat at Topf & Söhne!

05-02-2009 08:41 | Anti-militarism | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

Entrance to the Topf & Söhne squat in Erfurt, Germany. More photos here. In 2001, a group of antifascist activists connected to the anti-German movement occupied the long-abandoned Topf & Söhne factory grounds in Erfurt, Germany, where the crematoriums for the Nazi death camps were manufactured.

Detailed overview of the direct actions at Shannon against the Iraq and Afghan w

05-02-2009 08:37 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Social Struggles | World

In every country after February 15th 2003 the anti-war movement was faced with the question of what to do next. In Ireland almost all of the direct action protests were targeted on Shannon airport. More than half dozen successful actions took place, ranging from a large scale breach of the fence in October, to physical attacks on planes as the build up to war escalated. In response to these actions three out of the four airlines using the airport for troop transportation pulled out just before the start of the Iraq war. read more

New Yorkers March Against Wage Slavery

On a chilly Monday morning in midtown Manhattan, demonstrators displayed powerful messages of solidarity with food and retail workers, demanding fair wages and treatment while sending a prominent message to bosses: “You can’t keep the workers down, New York is a union town!”

Trump;s golf course fuels airport expansion

Donald Trump, the American tycoon behind the theme-park golf course set to trash the beautiful Ayrshire coast, has been linked to plans to expand Aberdeen airport. Not content with making a mockery of the Scottish government by ignoring local decision makers (not to mention 9 of the holes being built on a Site of Special Scientific Interest)

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A new mobilisation could revitalise politics in the UK - but only if you get inv

For the first time in my life I resent paying my taxes. Until now I have seen this annual amputation as a civic duty - like giving blood - necessary to sustain the life of a fair society. Suddenly I see it as an imposition. Its purpose has reverted to that of the middle ages: subsidising the excesses of a parasitic class. A high proportion of the taxes I pay will be used to bail out companies which have used every imaginable ruse to avoid paying any themselves.

Did Thatcher offer ‘the Obama effect’ for women?

04-02-2009 22:00 | Analysis | Gender | Social Struggles | World

A recent post about Obama being a role model for black people made me think about Lady Thatcher - the woman outside of her politics - seeking a path to power in context of Barack Obama and his journey to power.

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World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Israel: northern Israel Railways workers in wildcat strike

NCADC News Service Thursday 5th February 2009

Climate Camp hits the City of London

Misogynistic Hindu thugs get bolder

Anti-Contraception Republicans = Anti-Stimulus Votes

Britain vs. “Extreme Pornography”

But at what cost?

I was fairly certain that one of us would be shot today.

Open Gaza Borders

Waterford Crystal: ‘We’re occupying this plant to save our jobs’

Occupation of the opera house in Athens

Israeli blockade stops aid to Gaza

Emergency Solidarity Appeal from General Union of Guadeloupe Workers (UGTG)

Obama congratulated for overturning global abortion funding ban

Save the squat at Topf & Söhne!

Detailed overview of the direct actions at Shannon against the Iraq and Afghan w

New Yorkers March Against Wage Slavery

Trump;s golf course fuels airport expansion

A new mobilisation could revitalise politics in the UK - but only if you get inv

Did Thatcher offer ‘the Obama effect’ for women?

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