UK Indymedia - UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

Workers' Fightback 16: Council pool occupied in Somerset, Postie Wildcats, China

30-08-2009 22:34

We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system!

We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders!

We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives!

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Bristol Co-Mutiny - What's Happening!

30-08-2009 09:46

In Bristol and surrounds, a diverse bunch of enraged creative, dreamers and schemers, builders and gardeners, workers, students and unemployed have been drawn together by the common threads of our indignation at how a combination of corporate greed, social injustice and environmental degradation is leading us all towards climate chaos and financial collapse.

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Bristol anarchist bookfair - programme now online

29-08-2009 23:22

The programme for the 2009 Bristol Anarchist Bookfair is now available in print, and online. With 35 tables filled by some 30 local and national groups/networks/distributors, 17 workshops/meetings/debates, plus films and an all day cafe, you'll find something for everyone at the bookfair, including you!

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New Labour, the market state, and the end of welfare

29-08-2009 21:00

With the increasing vilification of those claiming benefits this article investigates claims that the insurance industry and New Labour at the head of the table of a carbuncle of rightwing advocates of welfare reform proactively sought to dismember the allowances to incapacity & disabled claimants.

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Lesvos No Border camp is banging on the walls of fortress europe

28-08-2009 16:03

The No Border camp in Lesvos is scoring some real victories for the migrants who arrive here and are detained in horrific conditions in the infamous Pagani detention centre following the release of over two hundred migrants . We haven't closed this hellhole down but pressure is building . We want to force Greece to respect asylum rights and the free movement of migrants and to refuse its role as Europe's border guard and all terrible abuses and deaths of migrants that entails . Yesterday 22 refugees avoided having to be detained and are now at an open centre with decent living conditions.

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"Anti-fascism isn't working" - spot on article in Red Pepper

28-08-2009 12:15

critique of uk anti-fascism and it's failure and suggestions as to a way forward

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The Amey case: Burn your bridges, save your dignity

28-08-2009 08:56

Two of the workers sacked by Amey in September 2008, who had fought for reinstatement and compensation, recently lost their legal battle, which had lasted almost a year.

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Rose-Jane & Natale Must stay!

28-08-2009 07:12

Rose-Jane Wanjohi a national of Kenya and her UK born daughter Natale, residents of Hyde Cheshire are currently detained in Yarl's Wood IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Sunday 30th August on Kenya Airways flight KQ101 from London Heathrow @ 20:00 to Nairobi.

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Human Rights Activists Outraged that Scientology Cult Founder Compared to Gandhi

28-08-2009 05:23

Human rights activists are shocked that the Scientology criminal organization has declared its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, to have been as great a humanitarian as Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, and Mahatma Gandhi - or even a greater humanitarian.

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Important interview with the Honduran resistance

27-08-2009 19:16

"Hondurans want a new constitution/society."

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Crisis = Cuts! Strike at Tower Hamlets College now

27-08-2009 10:52

On 5 June the Principal of Tower Hamlets College, Michael Farley, emailed staff a document called ‘Securing the Future’ that hit us like a shockwave. The ensuing 30 day ‘consultation process’ left us with the following:

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Protest against the BNP Event in Codnor, Derbyshire : Police Action

24-08-2009 16:29

British National Party BNP held its annual `Red, White and Blue` rally at a farm just outside Codnor in Derbyshire on the weekend of August 14th – 16th 2009. About 2000 folks demonstrated against this event.

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Manchester College strikes again!

24-08-2009 11:38

Staff at Manchester College will go on a one day strike on August 27, protesting against compulsory redundancies and union intimidation.

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Workers' Fightback: Update 15: Royal Mail and China

23-08-2009 23:51

We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system!

We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders!

We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives!

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Demonstration against the BNP Event in Codnor, Derbyshire 2

21-08-2009 16:13

British National Party BNP held its annual `Red, White and Blue` rally at a farm just outside Codnor in Derbyshire on the weekend of August 14th – 16th 2009

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Demonstration against the BNP Event in Codnor, Derbyshire 1

21-08-2009 16:07

British National Party BNP held its annual `Red, White and Blue` rally at a farm just outside Codnor in Derbyshire on the weekend of August 14th – 16th 2009

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Dissident Island Radio - August 21 transmision from 9pm

21-08-2009 13:25

ARUK2009 // RTF5 // Vestas update // Treehouse Galleries // Capitan of the Rant // Climate Camp swoop // Megabitch

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Have you ever visited…the Working Class Movement Library?

21-08-2009 09:48

Manchester is famous for being the birthplace of industrial capitalism. However, it is also hallowed ground in the history of working class politics and struggles for justice and equality – stories all too easily left out of mainstream history. Keeping that legacy alive relies on preserving that history, and making it accessible and relevant today.

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With Amanda Villatoro, of CSA CRF must be recognized as an occupational illness

21-08-2009 06:25

http://www.rel-uita.org/agricultura/agrotoxicos/irc/2009/con_amanda_villatoro-eng.htm

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Indefinite official strikes, wildcats & rooftop protest at Stoke sorting office

20-08-2009 12:54

Repost of a report from a local rag about strikes, walkouts and a rooftop protest at the Leek Road sorting office in Stoke.

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Postie-strikes-plunge-service-disarray/article-1244379-detail/article.html#StartComments