UK Indymedia - UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

Greece: Worker attacked and the rise of base trade union syndicalism

30-03-2010 10:47

Repost from "After the Greek Riots"

EDL blows its cover and reveal its anti-trades union & anti-working class agenda

29-03-2010 21:28

Remember how the EDL pretend they are not a far right quasi-fascist organisation? How they say they are focused only on ‘militant Islam’ and are not against all Muslims, or racist against all Asian people? Well, we have already proved that the EDL are racist (see post below), and their are plenty of photo’s of neo-nazis attending their rallies.

Now, however they have blown their cover, and have revealed their hatred of Britain’s trades unions and working class movements. This has been made apparent in a shocking anti-trades union ‘red-baiting’ frenzy that has appeared on the front page of their website. This shows the real agenda of the EDL and their millionaire puppeteers – to drive working class organisations out of British political life.

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Bomb in Athens kills 1, injures 2

29-03-2010 09:28

Bomb in bin in Athens kills young Afghani boy, injures his mother and sister.

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Stop the cuts public meeting: 12th April

28-03-2010 20:07

Public meeting
Monday 12 April 2010
12.30 - 2.30PM
Venue: Nottingham Deaf Society, 22 Forest Rd West, Nottingham

No to cuts in city council adult social care services and other council services

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Are Americans Really Funding the Tories?

27-03-2010 12:16

The Upcoming election will be vicious. Made more so by the Internet. The Conservative Party is being lauded as the best users of their Web presence. The Tories seem to think the Internet is their own private army. Closer investigation begins to reveal worrying connections with American Oil and anti-healthcare campaigns. Have the Tories made promises we will regret them keeping?

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Manchester Class Struggle Forum, meeting on unions

26-03-2010 16:40

The Manchester Class Struggle Forum are holding their second meeting on Thursday 1st April.

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Notts County Unison: Interview

24-03-2010 19:41

In October last year, Notts County Council announced a series of changes to the terms and conditions of staff. These were very controversial and preceded the announcement of the details of the council's budget which was widely unpopular.

On Friday March 19, Notts County Unison announced the results of a ballot for industrial action short of strike against the changes. I interviewed branch organiser Mike Scott to try and understand the background to the action and what's proposed.

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Show solidarity with the people of Keynsham

24-03-2010 19:12

Show solidarity with the workers in Keynsham by signing the petition.

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Budget Day Civil Service Strike

24-03-2010 13:46

Up to a quarter of a million civil and public servants from across the UK are taking part in a one day strike on budget day today, in a dispute over cuts to redundancy pay.

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Why is there popular protest in Venezuela?

23-03-2010 21:34

* For the benefit of those who find themselves surprised or disconcerted by the generalised decline of conditions in Venezuela, as well as the increase in popular struggle (2,893 street demonstrations between October 2008-September 2009; compared with 1,763 in the same period in 2007-08) – either because they are unaware of the situation here, they are based abroad, or because they always accept the official version of events – we expound below on some factors which contribute to social conflicts here.

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updates elleniko

23-03-2010 00:00

swiftstrikes continue, copssuq, greek state kills baby, kills comrade, killed one year ago KATERINA and faces urban guerillas

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Fighting Job Cuts at MMU

22-03-2010 20:31

A summary of upcoming actions opposing cut cuts at Manchester Metropolitan University

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Unite Strikers vs. BA Bosses – Pix-&-Vidz – Sat 20 Mar 10

22-03-2010 18:00

Dateline: Heathrow Airport, London, UK, 06:15-12:15, Sat 20 Mar 10 – In the first major UK industrial dispute of 2010, the British Airways bosses, led by Willie "The Slasher" Walsh, take on the might of Unite the Union, and specifically the cabin crew's section called BASSA: the British Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association. The actions of Walsh & Co. may display nothing but contempt for the folk they regard as nothing more than trolly dollies, but the high spirits of the women, men and children on the pickets and at the Strike Support Rally showed they can give as good as they get, verbally and visually.

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Second attempt to remove Mireille Mbimbo

22-03-2010 06:03

Mireille Mbimbo a national of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a resident of Bradford, is currently being held at Yarls Wood IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Thursday 25th March @ 19.00 on Kenya Airways flight KQ101, from London Heathrow to Nairobi for onward transit on flight KQ554 to Kinshasa.

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Second attempt to remove Patrick Masengo

22-03-2010 06:02

Patrick Masengo, a national of DR Congo and resident of Rotherham, currently detained in Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre, is due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Wednesday 24th March @ 19.00 hrs on Kenyan Airways Flight KQ101 to Nairobi and onwards to DR Congo.

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Nottingham AF present: Freedom to Organise! Thursday 25th March

21-03-2010 16:52

Nottingham AF present the Nottingham leg of a national speaking tour by the current secretary of the IWA to highlight on going repression of independent worker's associations in Germany and Serbia.

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Election Meltdown

20-03-2010 16:35

Election Meltdown is gearing up for action in this sham election.
The politicians for sale at Westminster have no plans for our future. We need to take it into our hands.
We don't see any choice on offer except between bankers, bankers and more bankers, between capitalism, capitalism and more capitalism. We demand an equal and accountable voice for all, but we don't see any prospect of democratic representation by politicians who are in the pockets of corporate vested interests.
Right now we live under a dictatorship of the rich, a tiny minority hogging the world’s resources, who make all the decisions about the planet and our future to satisfy their greed. It’s time for democracy to dictate back to the rich!
So all of us who are fed up and disgusted, cry
DEATH TO THE ELECTION!
Vote for a hung parliament!
Let's blow one big raspberry at the whole election charade on Mayday, taking over Parliament Square for a popular carnival on Saturday May 1st.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will be galloping back from four corners, dragging the carcasses of the four politicans chosen by the people to be hanged!
Then we will plant the People's Tree where a People's Assembly will camp and convene throughout the sham election period.

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Vestas support action - court update

20-03-2010 01:17

March 16th - Court update from WCA / Vestas crane action that took place last September

This was a 'Workers Climate Action' Blade Blockade action in support of and in solidarity with the Vestas workers who occupied their offices last year after losing their jobs.

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CaCC 3rd TU Conference – Pix-&-Vidz, Sat 13 Mar 10

19-03-2010 11:16

Dateline: South Camden Community School, London, UK, 10:30-16:30, Sat 13 Mar 10 – Scores of trade unionists and climate change activists converged in Camden to explore the consequences of The Great COP-15 Cop-Out, taking the destiny of our civilisation and ecosphere into our own hands, and just how we go about putting solving the capitalist-created catastrophic climate chaos crisis at the heart of every workplace's day-to-day functioning. Welcome to the Campaign against Climate Change's third Trade Union Conference.

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G20: PS Smellie due in Court

18-03-2010 13:56

The police officer charged with assaulting a protester at the G20 demonstrations in London, is due in court on Monday 22nd March.