World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

800 Tube Staff To Go

London Underground (LU) is to axe up to 800 jobs under plans to make savings of £16m a year, the company has announced.

Greek General Strike

11-03-2010 19:48 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

More than 50,000 people have demonstrated in Athens during a nationwide strike in Greece against the cash-strapped government's austerity measures.
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Protest against the imprisonment and abuse of Kurdish children in Turkish jails!

A 15 year old Kurdish girl Berivan Sayaca has been jailed for 8 years for allegedly throwing stones at police, she is just one of hundreds of children singled out and arrested indiscriminately and jailed unjustly in Turkey. We want to highlight this scandal and free the children. Join us!

Dissident Island Radio - How to superglue yourself to Gordon Brown

11-03-2010 12:29 | Climate Chaos | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

Download the latest Dissident Island Radio show...

The Greek uprising is truly going European!

11-03-2010 09:51 | Social Struggles | World

originally posted at

http://www.lasthours.org.uk/articles/greek-uprising-is-truly-going-european/

It is early in the morning of Tuesday, March 9th. Bemused audiences tuned in to an Athens news station to listen to an evidently uncomfortable police spokesperson. How could he not be? He must explain a rather embarrassing incident: days earlier, on March 5th, the police had tear-gassed Manolis Glezos in the face for trying to prevent a youth’s brutal arrest [photo at

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1139832]. Glezos is 88 years old today; it was almost 70 years ago, on May 30 1941, in Nazi-occupied Athens that he and Apostolos Santas climbed up the Acropolis and tore down the Swastika – an action for which he was arrested and tortured the following year.

Greek Revolt updates March 9th & 10th 2010

10-03-2010 21:29 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

the updates for 9th & 10th of march, many actions to mobilize for tomorrows general strike, 35year old anarchist killed by police, against ordered cop-attack 2000 came to protect the street-blockade of sacked olymic airways workers, more occupations, there is 500 billions of greek money around that proves the lies of crisis and measures, it's class war from above that meets his answers

another anarchist murdered by cops in Athens, Greece

10-03-2010 18:57 | Repression | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

At 5am cops opened fire on 2 people in dafni, a suburb of Athens.
1, an anarchist known to various groups, lies dead. The other is free.
Apparently the relevant government ministry and cops have released information and his photo asking for information...

Derry Friends of Palestine (by Latuff)

09-03-2010 18:57 | University Occupations for Gaza | Palestine | Social Struggles | World

Original artworks made for Derry Friends of Palestine:

http://www.derryfriendsofpalestine.org

Bristol Indymedia offline! What's happening?

The wave of repression has broken over Bristol!

The Battle for Grosvenor Road

DWP Civil Servants striking at Jobcentre Plus, Inland Revenue and Valuation Offices in Wrexham, N. Wales.

Trial of indigenous activist who attempted to make a citizen's arrest of Bush

09-03-2010 11:50 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Splitting the Sky, indigenous activist, seized by security forces in Canada last year when he attempted to make a citizen's arrest of George W. Bush will have his day in court on Monday, March 8th. According to Professor Anthony J. Hall, this case will demonstrate whether Canada is ruled by law or fear and highlight the need for new principles, the Calgary Principles to amend the victor's justice of the Nuremberg Principles, in light of the new impunities for high level crimes against humanity and the Earth in this era, and the need to protect and honor civil resistance to those high crimes.

International Women's Day in Argentina

09-03-2010 09:17 | Gender | Social Struggles | World

The radical left in Argentina is organizing a demonstration in Buenos Aires for international women's day. An interview with Andrea D'Atri, spokeswoman for the Argentinean women's organization "Pan y Rosas (Bread and Roses), connected with the "Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas" (Socialist Workers' Party).

Solidarity with Women in Iran

08-03-2010 22:42 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

More than 50 men and women, mainly Iranians, took part in a protest organised by the 8 March Women's Organsiation (Iran-Afghanistan) to mark International Women's Day. They protested at the Iranian Embassy against the 31 years of anti-women Islamic laws and repression and calling for an end to the Islamic regime in Iran before marching to Trafalgar Square for a rally. London 07/03/2010

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Class War Greece updates 7th & 8th of March 2010

clashes in Volos and Xanthi, NationalBank Occupations in Komotini, Occupations in Athens (note: as long as the "measures" law isn't published it's not legal, therefore the workers of the NationalPrintFactory occupied their workplace, the other one is occupied by the sacked workers of olymic airs)
AND SO ON, strikes continue, bigger one on 8th and General Strike on 11th

Mordechai Vanunu’s Nobel Stand

07-03-2010 21:41 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

For the first time in the history of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a preemptive request to withdraw a nomination—by the nominee—was made.

It was revealed last week that in a letter to the Committee, Mordechai Vanunu had asked for his candidacy to be rescinded. It was unusual enough for Geir Lundestad to acknowledge that a nomination had even been received, let alone publicly disclose Vanunu’s request. But for Vanunu—a man who should have been awarded the Peace Prize long ago—it was in full keeping with the dignity, integrity and uncompromising nature of one to whom the world owes a great debt.

The Accusation that Links Chávez with ETA and the FARC is Fraudulen

07-03-2010 19:50 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

"The computer in the hands of the Colombian authorities survived a missile attack which killed several people in the encampment and, by chance, confirmed all the arguments of President Alvaro Uribe to enable him to increase his bellicose internal campaign. Strange as it may sound, the “magic bomb resistant” computer has never been shown in public."

International Womens Day; mass demonstrations against Hijab Tehran 1979

07-03-2010 17:24 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

demonstrations for womens rights in Iran 1979

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The electoral politics of the NDF and the CPP in the Philippines

07-03-2010 01:30 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The year 2010 has begun and we already know what’s going to be the most unlikely election coalition of the year. The legal National-Democratic (ND) movement of the Philippines, politically aligned with the underground Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines, has made an alliance with multimillionaire Manuel ‘Manny’ Bamba Villar Jr. and indirectly with Marcos’ admiring son, Ferdinand ’Bongbong’ Marcos jr.

Greek Revolt (update 5th & 6th of March)

the workers who should print the new law on measures still strike and occupy their working place. unless the law's not published it's not legal and the capitalists will love that
friday the 5th: 4 hours stoppage/ demos with 10000/
three hours of clashes with police/ lots of helmets and shields bbq'd/
Vyronas after the murder and the attack of the moto-bike-cops
occupied Park in Exarchia
9 weeks of migrant fishers strike and soli-demo in salonika

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Across the Big Blue Students March Fourth.

05-03-2010 20:30 | Education | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Why is it that neoliberal banks and corporations are bailed out while students are squeezed of every last penny by predatory student loans amidst this current financial feeding frenzy?