World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

77y old retired pharmacist suicide at Syntagma Square, Athens GR

04-04-2012 17:52 | Social Struggles | World

Today a 77 year old retired man committed suicide in Syntagma square, Greece. He left a letter before he shot himself. Bellow is the link with the picture and a rough translation of the letter.

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Accusations against housing movements in Rome demolished by Tribunal

04-04-2012 11:39 | Social Struggles | World

In September 2009, hundreds of Carabinieri stormed a school in the Magliana area of Rome and arrested dozens of people who were occupying it. The charges made against them were super harsh: organised crime, extortion, possession of weapons, theft, assaulting police officers, and more.

Cardiff Prison Noise Demo 31st March

02-04-2012 16:37 | Policing | Social Struggles | World

A report from the Cardiff prison noise demo held on 31st March in solidarity with prisoners by local campaigners against the prison system and I.P.P. sentencing.

Holland & Barrett Face Angry Pickets Across the UK

01-04-2012 16:05 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Fake health food store Holland & Barrett faced angry demonstrations at 20 different locations yesterday as part of a National Day of Action Against Workfare.

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Tory MPs' memo planning to 'humiliate' unions with 'our Thatcher moment'

31-03-2012 14:46 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Due to lack of time article copy-pasted from

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/31/petrol-crisis-thatcher-moment-tories

Saboteurs chain metro gates open for fare strike, New York (USA)

30-03-2012 15:43 | Occupy Everywhere | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | World

"Rank and File Initiative" chained open the gates of 20 underground stations allowing passengers a free ride in New York (USA), March 28

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Barcelona engulfed in flames (Spain)

30-03-2012 12:24 | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

March 29th General Strike causes chaos, Spain, paralysing capitalist economy

Clashes on Day of the Combatant Youth (Chile)

30-03-2012 12:18 | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

The Day of the Combatant Youth, March 28, Chile

Peru: Solidarity action with Tortuga and the Security Case prisoners (Peru)

30-03-2012 12:12 | Repression | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

claim by "FAI-IRF/Group of Revolutionary Cells of Informal Organisation/Cell of Iconoclastic-Insurrectional Action" for solidarity action with anarchist prisoners in Chile Luciano Tortuga and Juan, Fredy and Marcelo.

Thomas Jefferson: "An Equal Application Of Law To Every Condition Of Man Is Fund

29-03-2012 15:48 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Iran is playing a particularly important role in this midst, as it is more concerned than any over the situation of Bashar Assad in Syria; the mullahs have found that they cannot afford losing Assad, and they can therefore not allow the situation get out of their control

April 6th, 2012 – Day of actions in solidarity with anarchist Stella Antoniou

28-03-2012 19:28 | Repression | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

Call out for solidarity in Greece and thru out the World with anarchist comrade Stella Antoniou in pretrial detention from the "Assembly of solidarity to imprisoned and prosecuted fighters" in Athens // Reposted from en.contrainfo.espiv.net

London No-TAV Solidarity Action (UK)

solidarity banner drop with No TAV struggle in London, March 3

Royal Bank of Canada sabotaged, Guelph (Canada)

28-03-2012 19:10 | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

communique from 'Revolutionary Anarchists' claiming March 15 sabotage attack on a RBC branch, Guelph, Ontario (Canada)

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Rail sabotage for Sole, Baleno and No-TAV (Italy)

28-03-2012 19:07 | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

report of anarchist sabotage of rail lines in Italy in the context of the Val de Susa anti-high speed rail mass struggle

Anti-anarchist "Bombs Case" political trial update, March 5 to 23 (Chile)

27-03-2012 10:38 | Repression | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

account of the "caso bombas", ongoing anti-anarchist judicial repression in chile

Save Leyton Marsh - Update

26-03-2012 22:47 | Ecology | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

The Occupy movement have joined Hackney and Waltham Forest residents in their struggle against the Olympic land grab.

Global General Strike - May 1st 2012

26-03-2012 17:09 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

This is a call for a 5 day weekend beginning Friday April 27th, culminating in global General Strike on Tuesday May 1st. We propose using this mobilization as a tool for realizing more global solidarity and mutual aid while creating and strengthening the necessary relations and conditions for revolutionary potential – here and now. We will strike, assemble, block and shut down the circuits of capital!

Insurrectionary ecological struggle continues (Papua)

26-03-2012 02:46 | Ecology | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

news from the struggle against the Indonesian state, mining and logging companies by Papuan people.
a drilling rig is set afire in kampung Tablasupa
five logging camps burned by Arso villagers

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The Syrian People’s Revolution, One Year On: Torture, Disappearances and Exile

25-03-2012 11:27 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

A year ago, when the Arab Spring began — or, as the events were then called, the revolutionary movements in the Middle East (which had already toppled two western-backed dictators in Tunisia and Egypt) — I remember being surprised, and also worried, when Syrian activists held a “Day of Rage” in Damascus on March 15, and, the day after, other protestors in Damascus — mostly well-established human rights activists — called for the release from prison of other human rights activists, many of whom had been held for many years.

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