UK Indymedia - UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

Defend Jobs and Education at Tower Hamlets College

09-06-2009 10:13

College announce massive cuts to jobs and student provision. Staff and students respond.

Support Information for tube workers strike

08-06-2009 10:35

Below is a list of suggested activities that comrades, and their groups, could do to support the up and coming tubeowrkers strike on June 9-11th from the Strike Support Group

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[removed] Campaign'

08-06-2009 06:42

[removed] is a national of Somalia and was resident in Hillingdon, Uxbridge until August 2008, after which she was moved to NASS Section 4 accommodation in Ilford, East London. It was a real struggle to keep her in London and close to her community, but we achieved it because she is in therapy at the Helen Bamber Foundation for PTSD.

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Filipino peasant leader ambushed!

07-06-2009 08:36

Renato Peñas, Vice-President of PAKISAMA (National Movement of Peasant Organizations), was ambushed dead by unidentified gunmen at 11:00 PM Friday, 5 June 2009, on the way to his farm in Sumilao, Bukidnon.

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Tesco and the Surveillance State

05-06-2009 22:31

The Role of Tesco in ID Card Function Creep.

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Workers' Fightback: Update 5

05-06-2009 21:54

Parents are still defiantly occupying the rooftop of Lewisham Bridge Primary School, six weeks after they began their action against a planned demolition and privatisation.

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Tubeworkers Strike Support Group

04-06-2009 21:43

Freedom newspaper was present at the meeting to set up a support group for the tube workers and their up and coming strike.

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New Publication "Crime Becomes Custom Custom Becomes Crime"

04-06-2009 11:47

The 3rd in the Cl@ss War Classix series of pamphlets has been published today.

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Support the Tube strike!

04-06-2009 11:39

Thousands of workers on London Underground are set to strike next Tuesday over job cuts, pay and management bullying. Some info on what you can do to support them.

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Willis cleaners for justice petition Unite

02-06-2009 21:23

Four cleaners sacked by cleaning contractor Mitie at City insurance giant The Willis Group handed in a cross-union and community petition to the Unite union last Friday, asking deputy General Secretary Jack Dromey to give full support to their four month old campaign for reinstatement.

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Comment on Euro-Elections

02-06-2009 18:18

Critical look at elections in Britain

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Car workers vote for all-out strike

02-06-2009 15:37

Workers at the Linamar car parts plant in Wales have voted for an all-out strike to oppose the sacking of union convenor and National Shop Stewards Network vice-chair, Rob Williams. Rob has been instrumental in building solidarity for Visteon workers during their action recently, and management blamed a "breakdown in trust" for his dismissal.

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Interview with Visteon worker

02-06-2009 07:27

The latest issue of Freedom newspaper has an indepth interview with one of the Enfield workers active in the recent Visteon dispute who won a major victory recently against car giants Ford over redundnancy payments when the enire UK forceforce was made redundant.

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Colnbrook IRC ~ Another damming report

02-06-2009 05:56

Struggling to cope

Colnbrook immigration removal centre (IRC) had made little improvement since its last inspection, and was struggling to cope, said Dame Anne Owers, Chief inspector of Prisons, publishing a report today Tuesday 2nd June, on the inspection of the centre

Safety at the centre continued to be a significant concern, with a challenging and vulnerable population and a drugs problem.

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Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees ~ May 2009

02-06-2009 05:54

Nine actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and none improved in May 2009, according to CrisisWatch N°70.

Deteriorated Situations
Chad, Guatemala, Myanmar/Burma, North Korea, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan

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Starbucks Closed by Rev Bill & Co

01-06-2009 21:46

The Space Hijackers, Rhythms Of Resistance, Rev Billy & The Church of Life After Shopping, held a funeral procession, sermon's and street party in East London, campaigning against Starbucks.

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Prospects For A Multipolar World

01-06-2009 18:21

"As an earlier quote mentioned, the SCO is composed of six member states and four observers representing a true diversity of cultures, civilizations, histories and political systems, from many of the world's oldest and most venerable traditions to some of its newest nations, from the world's two most populous states to Kyrgyzstan with slightly over five million citizens, and political structures ranging from secular to religious and multi-party to single-party. The internal demographic composition of the ten members and observers, excluding Mongolia, is also a rich tapestry of ethnic, national, linguistic and confessional pluralism and variety.  In additional to calling for a just, rational and peaceful world in a global situation that was little enough of any of the three, the Declaration contained both an appeal and blueprint for the sort of international order required as an antidote to the current one of unipolarity, unilateralism, cutthroat competition, cynical complacency, brute force and war."

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Around the Campaigns Monday 1st June 2009

01-06-2009 11:52

The Home Office does not have it all its' own way, people resist by any means that work!

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Locals distribute immigrant solidarity leaflet

29-05-2009 20:43

A group of residents in Oxford decided to distribute large numbers of simple leaflets refuting the electioneering lies of right-wing parties like the BNP and UKIP, and offering links to a more radical analysis.

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Workers' Fightback: Update 4

29-05-2009 18:42

Workers at the Swansea Linamar car parts plant have voted for an all-out indefinite strike, in support of their sacked union convenor Rob Williams. Williams was originally sacked one month ago, after an “irretrievable breakdown of trust” with management – i.e. he actually tried to stand up for his fellow workers. Indeed in April he visited all three Visteon occupations (like Linamar, Visteon are strongly linked to Ford).