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Around the Campaigns Friday 30th April 2010

30-04-2010 07:06

Octavie Bei, won't be flying next Tuesday
. . . . as UKBA hoped, though told by immigration at Yarl's Wood, Removal Directions (RDs) had been cancelled, no explanation of why was given.
Many thanks to all who Emailed/faxed on Octavie's behalf
ANSU UK campaign group /

g_macv@yahoo.co.uk

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Bristol: May Day party & benefit

29-04-2010 22:18

The newly formed Bristol branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or Wobblies), invites you along to add some fun and games to our history of Mayday resistance and struggle with a night of stonking live bands and dancefloor filling DJ's.

Saturday 1 May, from 8pm to late, at The Plough, 223 Easton Rd, Easton BS5 0EG. £3/4 requested donation in on the door.

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Workers Memorial Day

29-04-2010 14:09

A march and rally at the London Olympic site in Stratford on Workers Memorial Day remembered the deaths of workers killed on the Stratford City and Olympic sites. Hundreds of building workers stopped work to remember their dead colleagues and call for stronger safeguards in construction. London, UK. 28/04/2010. Photos Copyright (C)2010, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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Greece: a radical turn in the situation is being prepared

29-04-2010 13:01

The downgrading of Greece’s credit ratings by Standard & Poor’s has sent shockwaves around the world’s financial markets, with stock exchanges seeing significant falls yesterday. The fear is that Greece could default and drag the rest of the eurozone into a severe crisis, putting immense pressure on the euro.

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Freemovement - Say No to Removals/deportations

29-04-2010 06:57

Sanctuary for Octavie Bei - Second attempt to remove

Octavie Bei a national of Cameroon and resident of London, currently detained in Yarl's Wood IRC. Is due to be forcibly removed from UK to Cameroon on Kenya Airways Flight KQ101, on Tuesday 4th May 2010 at 20:00 to Nairobi and onward to DRC.

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All efforts towards advancing the national democratic revolution in Philippines!

28-04-2010 11:18

Today we celebrate with utmost joy the Filipino people’s gallant struggle for national liberation and genuine democracy under a united front. Thirty seven years ago on April 24, in the face of the fascist Marcos dictatorship, revolutionary organizations came together to form the National Democratic Front (NDF). Through the years the NDF has proven its commitment in advancing the revolutionary struggle of the Filipino people to overthrow the semi-colonial, semi-feudal system which oppresses, deprives and exploits majority of the masses.

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EuroMayDay 010 and before

27-04-2010 16:22

I wrote this overview of EuroMayDay activities, because I wanted an english language overview that links some of the places where this movement mobilises, reports and reflects. The starting point is the EuroMayDay website. But other online places can be hard to find, especially since they come in many languages and images. Since most groups have the odd person that speaks english, here is a collection of english language resources. I didn't find a EuroMayDay for this year in the UK. However, struggles around casual labour and precarious lives are happening in the UK just like everywhere else. Maybe some in the UK might recognise their own struggles in the EuroMayDay activities.

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Workers' Fightback - "No more illusions, War Against The Rich"

27-04-2010 14:56

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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Sanctuary for Cameroonian's, Jean Mathurin Tadjiokeng Yves Yitgna Njitchoua, Ans

26-04-2010 11:32

Jean (Fifth attempt), Yves (Sixth attempt), and Anselme (seventh attempt), long time residents in the UK and currently detained in Colnbrook IRC, are once again facing deportation by charter flight to Cameroon on Wednesday 28th April 2010 on flight PVT 003 @06:30 to Douala.

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Revolutionary Peoples' Party

25-04-2010 12:55

Why lots of people should occupy Parliament Square from Mayday and inspire others to get out on the streets on election day

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West Mids IWW supports Alberto Durango - Oppose UBS (Union Busting Scum!)

23-04-2010 19:37

As part of the fourth day of protest in solidarity with sacked union organizer Alberto Durango, West Mids IWW took part in a demonstration outside the Birmingham offices of UBS.

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Corporate Watch: The Unemployment Business

23-04-2010 16:34

The latest issue of the Corporate Watch Newsletter is out. The double issue looks at the 'unemployment business'; its protagonists, ideological, political and economic premises and how it is being utilised by the New Labour government to dismantle what’s left of the welfare state. Examining the old and new benefit and employment regimes, it also provides new details and figures about the winners and losers, or the private contractors and their victims. The full text of the articles can be read online or downloaded at

http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3572 .

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Newcastle

22-04-2010 19:43

Please support the St. George’s Day event at Newcastle Monument

Friday 23rd April-11am-6pm

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Sanctuary for Octavie Bei

22-04-2010 12:39

Octavie Bei a national of Cameroon and resident of London. Is due to be forcibly removed from UK to Cameroon on Kenya Airways Flight KQ101 tomorrow Friday 23rd April 2010 at 20:00 to Nairobi and onward to Cameroon.

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Trial Against Argentinian Torturers

21-04-2010 10:42

Trial against Argentineans torturers is going ahead.

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Remember the dead - Justice for the Living

21-04-2010 08:06

Deaths from Self-Harm in immigration detention, murder, undetermined

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A visit to the INAF worker-occupied factory

20-04-2010 11:44

A delegation of comrades of the IMT from several countries is visiting Venezuela, attending the congress of the Venezuelan Marxists and bringing support for the formation of the Fifth International. On their first day they were taken on a tour of the INAF factory, which has been occupied by the workers and is under their management.

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FRIDAY.5PM.LONDON:Demo against UBS/for migrant cleaners

19-04-2010 23:45

Demo against sacking of cleaner and organiser Alberto Durango and to show UBS the fight has only begun. The bigger the turnout the greater the confidence cleaners will have fighting some of the most powerful banks in the world for a living wage, contracts and trade union rights.

[called by Cleaners Defence Comittee]

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What fascism is and how to fight it - a dayschool, Sheffield, 24 April

19-04-2010 14:55

Two years of capitalist economic crisis have seen a sharp growth of the BNP and the rise of groups like the English Defence League. Existing anti-fascist campaigns have been totally ineffective at stopping these developments. Why?

This dayschool, organised by Workers' Liberty, is an attempt to locate a socialist understanding of the BNP and EDL in the classical Marxist tradition of analysing fascism, and use that tradition to get to grips with the issues confronting anti-fascists so urgently today.

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Postal workers: don't deliver fascist garbage!

19-04-2010 00:03

The BNP in Liverpool and Merseyside are only a small outfit, and will only have the resources to concentrate on a few key areas out of all the places where they are standing. But General Election rules mean that the fascists can co-opt taxpayer money and working class man power to spread their hate.