UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive
Starbucks Vice President awarded “Prize Mug” As Company Dodges Paying UK Tax
29-11-2012 12:15
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The mug was awarded for the company’s ‘mugging’ of the UK taxpayer. The VP Marketing was speaking at the University of Birmingham Business School as an engineering alumni – students wondered why someone from this particular company was invited to talk.
“This is it then, this is the end.”- A view of the NUS Demo 21/11/12
29-11-2012 01:49
A a reflexive view from the streets during the NUS demo last week and some thoughts about the student movement as a whole.Week of Action against workfare 8th Dec – Charities stop exploiting ...
28-11-2012 19:04
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Wake -Up Call To Stop Damaging Legislation
28-11-2012 14:13
The government is proposing to allow large scale mineral planning applications to by pass the normal, local democratic process. This press release give some background info on this and how anyone can participate in a consultation exercise on this proposal and say NO!Growth and Infrastructure Bill: Proposed 100 Hectare Threshold
28-11-2012 13:36
The Government is intending, by means of legislation which forms part of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill (Clause 21), to introduce a 100 hectare threshold on all future mining and quarrying planning applications in England. It has issued a consultation document ‘Nationally significant infrastructure planning: extending the regime to business and commercial projects: consultation’ [1] to assess reaction to their proposals. This Briefing Note outlines the impact that this proposal would have on current English opencast mine proposals.Union branch votes for one-state solution for Palestine
28-11-2012 12:21
Lambeth’s Local Government Branch of UNISON last week voted to endorse a one-state solution for Palestine based on equality and justice for all citizens, and supporting the right of return to millions of Palestinian refugees. A motion was tabled in response to Israel’s ongoing attacks and siege on Gaza.Curo Housing tenants owe staggering debts of £176million
27-11-2012 08:24
Curo Group considers selling off Somer Community Housing Trust assetts to cover spiralling debts. Tenants demand the housing stock be transferred back ASAP into the ownership and control of B&NES Council.Workfare’s Christmas Bonus For The Bosses – Demonstrate, 8th December
26-11-2012 20:53
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Saturday 8th December, 2pm
at the new Poundland, S12 Martinaeu Place, 76-77 Corporation Street, Birmingham, B2 4UQ
Please join and invite your friends to the facebook event and spread the word.
Direct Action Timeline between September 2011 - November 2012 from Greece
25-11-2012 16:45
Post by Traductorxs: Although in recent months some of the leaflets have been translated into Castilian (especially contrainfo), there were also many actions that were "forgotten". Therefore we have tried to compile the following chronology.Twenty-nine Years of Dignified Resistance: An Echo in the Heartbeat of the Peopl
25-11-2012 09:34
17th November 1983 to 17th November 2012by the
Dorset Chiapas Solidarity Group
UG#594 - Occupy 2.0 (Peer Produced Politics)
25-11-2012 08:56
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UG#593 - Let Your Life Be A Friction (To Stop The Machine)
25-11-2012 08:53
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A.C.A.B not A2B- a few (slightly late) thoughts on Oct 20th
22-11-2012 03:38
An article about the importance of black block and the failings of the T.U.C. see more and similar at![](/img/extlink.gif)
NUS National Demo - #demo2012 - Be Street Wise - Tips for Protestors
20-11-2012 09:05
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Take a hat and scarf... Film cop faces and ID numbers... Watch out on Westminster Bridge... Be street wise... look BEHIND you!
Gaza Solidarity Demo in Cambridge.
19-11-2012 23:30
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Celebrations of the anniversary of the founding of the Zapatistas
18-11-2012 16:13
In San Cristóbal they commemorate the birth of the EZLN: November 17, 1983On this day the latest phase of the Campaign Worldwide Echo in support of the Zapatistas culminates.
Rural Rebels and Useless Airports: La ZAD - Europe’s largest Postcapitalist lan
16-11-2012 21:26
Since the 16th of October the French state have attempted to evict Europe's largest postcapitalist land occupation - La ZAD - to build a new "green" airport. Farmers and activists have joined together to resist the project and the evictions have lit a fuse across France. KK immerses herself in this rural rebellion against economic growth and the climate catastrophe and discovers a utopia in resistance.(for version of text with image see -![](/img/extlink.gif)
Public discussion in Bath - Anarchy vs Chaos: An Introduction to Anarchism
16-11-2012 17:47
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