World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Chilean 'Socialist' Authorities use force 2 transfer the Mapuche Prisoners

07-05-2006 17:31 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

After 55 days on hunger strike and 2 weeks of unfruitful negotiations with the central authorities, the hunger-strikers were transferred to the Regional Hospital by the Special Forces.

Venezuela - World Social Forum and work in the barrios

This January a delegation from the London-based Venezuela Information centre went to the World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela. There were representatives from Student Unions, the Greater London Authority, the Green Party, Trade Unions, journalists and academics. The majority of the group came from the north of the UK.

Women of Zimbabwe - mass arrests over schooling demonstration

06-05-2006 22:08 | Education | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Over a hundred Zimbabweans are currently in detention for demonstrating against a 1000% increase in schooling fees.

English Partnerships – A Request To Consider Negligence And Vandalism At The Top

Tuesday 2nd May 2006, English Partnerships installed a new Chief Executive Officer at Corporate Headquarters in London. A Crest Nicholson-evicted houseboat Family of 7 from Wales, hand-delivered an urgent letter of appeal for ‘help’, to Mrs Margaret Ford – Chair, and The Board of Directors.

Crossrail-hole-promoter Michale Keith is ousted from East End Council

It was in the first Khoodeelaar! No to CrossRail hole Bill campaign posting carried on the UK Indymedia sites September 2005 that the accurate prediction about Tower Hamkest Councillor Michael Keith losing political credibility was published Keith has now been ousted by the voters of Shadwell at yesterday’s elections.

Life in Rossport Solidarity Camp

04-05-2006 21:37 | Ecology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Rossport Solidarity Camp is part of a struggle against Shell, Statoil, Marathon, and the Irish state's plans to destroy a remote area in the West of Ireland. This article is about where the camp is and how the camp is organised.

Iraqi Police execute 'gay' child

04-05-2006 14:43 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Ahmed, aged 14, shot dead on doorstep - Murdered to cleanse the community - Fundamentalist police blamed – Ahmed, gone but not forgotten

Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Tower Hamlets Council NEXT DEMO

UK Transport Secretary Alistair Darling - known also as the CrossRail hole Bill minister - is the subject of a series of legal actions initiated by Khoodeelaar! campaign. Other actions in defence of the Brick Lane London E1 area against Crossrail-Big Business attacks are also in the pipelines against the present Tower Hamlets Council. Today's local elections may cause a slight change in composition of the Council. But the campaign against CrossRail will have top go on against a Crossrail-hole-inviting Council

Australian police harass former Guantánamo prisoner

04-05-2006 07:55 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

He is planning legal action against the police over the detention. Whatever the outcome, the harrassment of Habib and his family are a particularly sharp expression of the ongoing assault on basic democratic rights being conducted by the Howard government and its state government allies against the working class as a whole.

Australian Surgeons Condemn "Horrific" Organ Trade

04-05-2006 06:20 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Prison inmates are given instructions from a police officer. Leading Australian transplant surgeons have condemned the practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners.

Maydy 2006: Eye witness on the Autonomous Block March

Written record of the days events with the Autonoumous Block.

Fight the racist control of the media

In order to obscure the failures of the British justice system, the press is fuelling racist hysteria in Britain by concentrating on the fact that detainees on early release were migrants or 'foreigners' as they are phrasing it. This is despite the fact that refugees in detention centres are being illegally locked up and deported against their Human Rights as guaranteed British, European and International law.

Join the 5th International Conference against Disapperances

03-05-2006 16:37 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

ICAD has been struggling against disappearances of the opposition by the government or governments for the last 10 years. As part of this Struggle 4 conferences (Turkey 1996, Colombia 1997, Philippines 1999 and Germany 2002) have been organised.

Protesters back Mapuche hunger strikers

03-05-2006 16:30 | Repression | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

from tomorrow's (2006-5-4) morning star

More4 video report on hunger strike and beatings

More4s report on the April 8 demonstration, the following hunger strike and Amos Onokare, who was beaten for talking to the Guardian newspaper.

FILM: WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE

The above film was shown yesterday to a small crowd in the delightfully bohemian bonhomie of Tchi Ovna, Otago Lane, Glasgow

Hack Lab Cooking this Thursday at Matilda

02-05-2006 11:44 | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Well at least me and The G will be.. Armchair is working i'd guess.. AD not sure and we have a newish person on board d4maths or Tony as they like to be named so what will we be cooking?

G8 2007 Newspaper Online Now!

The mobilisation against the 2007 G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany is well under way! A newspaper has been produced by a number of groups involved with the Interventionist Left (IL), one of the radical networks mobilising against the summit, and is out now!

Police harassment at Stockholm’s Critical Mass

01-05-2006 08:16 | Ecology | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

It must have been a slow day on the crime front in Stockholm on Friday as the police didn’t seem to have anything to do other than harassing a bunch of cyclists for cycling!

'Chile: Mapuche People 48th day of Hunger Strike'

01-05-2006 05:03 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Three Mapuche men and one Mapuche woman are now on their 48th day of a hunger strike. Today they have decided to go without fluids. They will die in the next couple of days if their demand is not met. They demand justice.