World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Attacks in Chiapas

In Chiapas there is a latent threat of forced displacement against the Zapatistas, and there has been a new political assassination.

May Day: take action to remember the workers killed in Dhaka and worldwide.

28-04-2013 09:28 | G8 2013 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

On 24 April more than 300 workers were crushed to death in a collapsing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The factory made clothes for high street chains including Primark, Matalan, Benetton, and Mango. Just another "accident" in the race for profits. Those responsible for these deaths are in London and in towns across the UK, we need to hold them to account.

Athens: Cops detained comrades during solidarity action with Athens IMC and 98FM

24-04-2013 19:23 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

In the morning of April 24th, as part of solidarity actions with counter-information media that were recently gagged by the Greek State with the aid of the rector of the National Technical University of Athens, Simos Simopoulos.

CURO Housing prepares to sell-off £100m plus of our charitable assetts.

24-04-2013 08:01 | Social Struggles | South Coast | World

CURO Housing appoints senior management consultant to oversee the development and sale of the charitable assets of the registered social landlord Somer Community Housing Trust.(SCHT)

Call out for action - UK and Germany calls for Brazil to halt Belo Monte dam

23-04-2013 21:20 | Climate Chaos | Social Struggles | London | World

Action for the Amazon is planning to hold a small fluffy demo out side the Brzillian embassy on Friday the 26th April. Please come and show your support for the Achaur tribe who's land will be flooded, and call the Brazillian government to halt the dam buiding.
We plan to take potted plants to the embassy to offer them somthing to re-plant with.

Private security fine the public on Public streets in Leeds

23-04-2013 10:47 | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Leeds Council sign cosy deal in which a Tory councillor run private security firm will fine the public on public streets in a breathtaking reduction of civil rights.

Make tower hamlets Council truthful - or a local 'mayor' may sink as Ken did!

21-04-2013 21:59 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London | World

UK Communities Secretary Eric Pickles may be in for a surprise welcome in a most
untypical zone - the inner city, routinely "deprived" East London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Pickles may not be even aware himself that he may be the leader of a subliminal movement progressing modestly across Tower Hamlets that may end up with sinking Lutfur Rahman in the forthcoming 'mayor poll' in May 2014.

Radiozones of Subversive Expression

17-04-2013 05:58 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Athens IMC and 98FM radio station are under repression by the State

Margaret Thatcher owned £6m house linked to THREE tax havens

15-04-2013 19:26 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | London | World

Margaret Thatcher owned £6m house linked to THREE tax havens -

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-tax-snatcher-mystery-1828441

Athens Indymedia "under attack", down

TVXS news site quotes that Athens.Indymedia is likely 'under occupation'

Quotes a call for open meeting tomorrow (

http://tvxs.gr/sites/default/files/article/2013/15/125428g-arkheio_lepses.png)

UG#629 - Speaking Forbidden Truths (The Poor Had No Lawyers, Monetarism's Fail)

This week we conclude our reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years with a focus on the fraud of land 'ownership' and economics. A mix of new and familiar speakers include a reading by Lyn Gerry from episode 90 and a radio adaptation of an Adam Curtis film, The League of Gentlemen.

US Governors Shred Freedom Of Speech Re Filming Animal Slaughter

US government and 3 states have criminalized exposing slaughterhouse, factory farm and laboratory torture.

8 April every week Witch is Dead DAY

I suggest 08 April every year be an annual marking of the end of 'her'

Benefit for Greek Anarchist Prisoners & Squats - Nottingham

10-04-2013 11:30 | Free Spaces | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Our Solidarity Is Non-Negotiable!

Freedom Flotilla West Papua

Indigenous Elders from Australia & West Papua are planning a Freedom Flotilla to West Papua in solidarity against the apartheid of colonisation and destruction caused by multinational mining companies on Indigenous land in West Papua & Australia.
They are being actively supported by a coalition of environmental and
human rights activists, artists and musicians from all over Australia.

UG#628 - Asking Forbidden Questions (Why Do People Put Up With Capitalism?)

This week we learn how much effort has been put to making people assume that the virtues of capitalism are beyond question. We hear three Marxian commentators offering their own angles on the development of capitalism in USA, interspersed with a reprise of Noam Chomsky from episode 29 on the elite's determination to control the public mind lest the democratic state serve the wishes of the majority rather than the privilege of the few.

Islington meeting wants no bedroom tax evictions

04-04-2013 20:38 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | London | World

Islington Hands Off Our Public Services organised a meeting in a Canonbury community centre about the Con-Dem bedroom tax. Islington Council's deputy leader spoke.

CURO Housing Bedroom Tax victims hit with 7.1% rent hike

31-03-2013 09:06 | Social Struggles | Wales | World

Bedroom Tax saves £1m in HB bill. Rent rise of 7.1% increases HB bill by £3m.

March of discontent: lessons in work struggles (Italy)

30-03-2013 20:43 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The working class is awakening, and the mobilisations of the last few days among the logistics sector workers in Emilia Romagna are the first signs. Recently, we have seen two different images of work struggles: the Peugeot workers in Paris clashing with the police on one hand; and the sad, resigned-looking picket organised by Fiom outside a Fiat establishment in Italy, on the other hand. Both are fighting for their jobs, but the differences are clearly visible and stimulate many diverse reflections. The French workers’ determination in defense of their rights and dignity has spread to the Italian logistics sector workers’ mobilisation on March 22, and manifested in their determination to defeat the enemy. Workers of different backgrounds and origins, Italians and migrants, have united against the exploitation carried on by the worker cooperative owners and the main worker cooperative, the Coop.

UG#624 - The Vast Machine To Perpetuate Hopelessness (Marxian Class Analysis 1)

As we approach the climax of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years, we begin a series of talks by Economics Professor Richard Wolff introducing Marxian class analysis.