World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Ethnic cleansing and genocide of indigenous tribes continuing apace

While the Brazil government makes as if it is protecting the human rights indigenous peoples of the Amazon, for loggers and mining companies it's business as usual.

15 Websites Now Defying Atos Legal Threats - please help!

29-08-2011 15:19 | Public sector cuts | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Fifteen (and counting) websites are now defying IT corporation Atos' threats of legal action which have led to the closure of three websites so far.

Please join in and support these sites!

NATO's rape of Libya: Never forgive, never forget

NATO's rape of Libya is too ugly for proper words to describe. NATO outdid Orwell on this one, killing truth by calling war the responsibility to protect - by terrorizing, attacking, and slaughtering civilians like psychopathic assassins. As a result, honest historians will redefine barbarism to explain NATO's savagery.

Atos Macht Frei – That Censored Carer Watch Post Revealed!

28-08-2011 11:42 | Health | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | World

The post which led to IT company Atos using legal threats to close down the Carer Watch forums is reproduced below (1). Libellous?

The offending piece was not written by a Carer Watch forum member, but was a repost with a clear link to the site on which it originally appeared. Please republish.

Solidarity Action for a comrade detained in Norway - !Acción Solidaria

27-08-2011 15:42 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Greetings friends and comrades ! Solidarity needed against Scandinavian fascism, hate and homophobia, I have been executed social/Psych. by the community of Tromsø, and UNN TROMSØ, please read carefully, the situation is horrible -.-

SOAS Students Day X - The Battle for Education

26-08-2011 12:09 | Education | Policing | Social Struggles | World

SOAS Students Day X - The Battle for Education is a documentary in the shape of a diary of events that led up to the day of the vote. It is a first hand account from the perspective of students. Funds to finish doc are being raised on indiegogo

http://www.indiegogo.com/SOAS-students-Day-X-a-diary-of-events Powerful and unflinching the film is an elegy for the right to protest.

Fightback Against Atos Censorship!

25-08-2011 12:13 | Health | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | World

The Carer Watch forums forced offline by poverty pimps Atos Origin are still not back despite Atos claiming to be willing to negotiate. It now appears that Atos are refusing to even state which posts on the site, a volunteer-run online meeting place for disabled people and their carers, they have deemed to be ‘libellous’ (1).

German Activists Sue re: Undercover Police Operation

23-08-2011 14:07 | Policing | Repression | Social Struggles | World

new activist action in August 2011 against police repression!

The "elimination" of poverty

22-08-2011 21:44 | Analysis | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

The ideologues of the New World Order which was imposed by the capitalist neo-liberal globalization have already proved their great skill to eliminate or distort annoying terms such as socialism, democracy (in its classic meaning of self-management), resistance against occupiers (defined today as "terrorism"), etc.

UG#564 - Choosing A Life of Action (Deschooling Society 4)

The show this week reflects on why, in the face of dire predictions if we do not make big changes to how we live, so many people feel either powerless or even disinterested to try to effect such changes. We continue with last week's Gatto interview, followed by another chapter of Deschooling Society and an essay by Philip Balla.

Coda to an open letter

Three follow-up comments on the London riots, drawn in part from astute comments from friends and strangers.

UG#563 - Extended Childhood and The New World Religion (Deschooling Society 2-3)

This week we pick up with both recordings from last week, focussing on the establishment of what in our second hour, Ivan Illich calls the 'New World Religion', the cult of mass compulsion schooling. As Gatto explains, in the 20th Century, mass compulsion schooling served to create the most essential resource of all for US big business - a stockpile of radically incomplete, childish adults who could be counted on to mass produced and mass consume goods and services according to a schedule imposed by managers. Illich broadens the discussion beyond merely business and adds historical perspective.

Greater Depression approaching.

13-08-2011 08:52 | Analysis | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

"Thousands of people stormed the streets and brought the nations to a standstill in a general revolt against the affluent ruling class."

Urges for Swift Action to Locate Abducted Journalist in Pakistan

It is shocking for me that government of Pakistan is silent on the issues of abduction and disappearances by the state intelligence agencies and no one has yet made responsible for these acts which have been happening since 2002. And during the civilian government this menace has increased many fold and it looks as if the government is simply a silent spectator before their powerful law enforcement agencies.

BBC Radio transmission mast destroyed by fire in Bristol

11-08-2011 15:42 | August Riots | Social Struggles | Birmingham | World

As social war erupts in the UK, we torched a BBC Radio transmission mast in the early hours of August 11th 2011. The mast was located in the Bedminster Down area of Bristol and is managed by Arquiva.

Video of PEDAL: London to the West Bank

PEDAL finish work in the West Bank with Jordan Valley solidarity campaign and launch short video of their journey

16,000 police deployed in London to put down youth revolt

Prime Minister David Cameron chaired a meeting of the governmental emergency COBRA committee yesterday and called a special sitting in parliament for Thursday, in response to continuing rioting in London that has spread to other towns and cities in England.

Social Media and the UK Riots: “Twitter Mobs”, “Facebook Mobs”, “Blackberry Mobs” and the Structural Violence of Neoliberalism

“One formula [...] can be that of the mob: gullible, fickle, herdlike, low in taste and habit. [...] If [...] our purpsoe is manipulation – the persuasion of a large number of people to act, feel, think, known in certain ways – the convenient formula will be that of the masses”. — Raymond Williams

Britain’s riots: A society in denial of the burning issues

Britain saw its third consecutive night of widespread burning of properties and looting as riot police failed to contain gangs of masked youths marauding several parts of the capital, London. There were reports too of violence fanning out to other cities across Britain.

Britain’s social decay has been seething over several decades, overseen by Conservative and Labour governments alike. The burning issues that need to be addressed to explain the outburst of arson, looting and rioting are endemic racism endured by Britain’s black community and, more generally, the deepening poverty that is increasingly racking British society.

Israel: “How Goodly Are Thy Tents”

07-08-2011 20:25 | Palestine | Social Struggles | World

FIRST OF all, a warning.

Tent cities are springing up all over Israel. A social protest movement is gathering momentum. At some point in the near future, it may endanger the right-wing government.