UK Indymedia - UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

Free Murad Akincilar! Demonstrate Wed 2 June

26-05-2010 21:35

Murad Akincilar is a Turkish trade unionist and human rights activist, who is currently in prison in Istanbul awaiting trial on 3 June.
DEMONSTRATE ON THE EVE OF MURAD’S TRIAL
OUTSIDE THE TURKISH EMBASSY, 43 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PA
Wednesday 2 June 5-6pm - Called by FRFI and Gikder

Called by Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! and Gikder

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Sod the world cup...

26-05-2010 20:15

live music and football night - May day fundraiser - Friday June 4th

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Announced inspection of Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre

26-05-2010 07:16

[Two new wings built to Category B prison standards will open in June, bringing Harmondsworth back to full capacity, and will be the largest immigration detention centre in Europe]

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Save Courage Idiagbonya from deportation!

25-05-2010 13:47

[There is another Charter Flight to Nigeria this Thursday. Nigeria lacks the capacity to establish and maintain political institutions, secure their population from violent conflict, control their territories and meet the basic needs of their population. Is in free fall to becoming a failed state; 22nd in 'Fund for Peace' Failed States Index in 2006 it plummeted to 15th in 2009 a 32% decrease in living/human rights conditions in 3 years.]

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UK KFA Picket of South Korean puppet embassy May 21st

24-05-2010 05:37

A report of the picket held by UK Korean Friendship Association of the south Korean
puppet embassy on May 21st

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G20 Defence Needed

23-05-2010 14:23

Were you or someone you know at last years G20 protests?? Do you have any footage or can you give a witness account of the brutality I experienced on Threadneedle St between 11am-1pm?? If you can please get in touch.

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Participate in the NUJ and ‘38 Degrees’ Nationwide Day of Action

22-05-2010 21:57

Tuesday 25 May lunchtime protest outside BBC Mail Box Birmingham
Join the local NUJ Branch protest against cuts by the BBC

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PHILIPPINES: Sabotaging the path to the strategic stalemate

22-05-2010 02:16

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP-Maoist) has spent a tremendous amount of manpower, financial and materials resources in the electoral campaign, in the process forging a tactical alliance with the landlord-bureaucrat capitalist Manuel Villar, the Nacionalista Party--and indirectly with the family of the late fascist puppet dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

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Sehar Shebaz and Wania belong to Scotland

20-05-2010 06:31

Urgent Action Appeal, from UNITY Centre, Glasgow

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Athens, Bangkok, where next? Revolt now!

18-05-2010 20:13

from the mouth of a protestor in bangkok (allegedly):

"People of higher class look down upon us even though we serve them," said the slingshot-wielding Sakhorn, who has spent the last four nights sleeping on the streets behind the tire barricades, without a shower or a change of clothes. "They think we are stupid because we are poor."

With a flourish, he pulled the slingshot and white pebbles from the pocket of his jeans, which are shredded at the left knee.

"This is all I have got, and the government calls me a terrorist!" he said. "I believe in negotiations if it done by our leaders. If not, we will keep fighting even if it takes years."

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River workers' strike over - deal struck - but strike wave grows

18-05-2010 00:39

The river vessel strike ends - but other strikes keep rolling...

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High court ruling scuppers BA strikes – another nail in the coffin of the 'right

17-05-2010 17:44

BA today won a high court injunction which ruled unlawful the cumulative 20-day strike called by the Unite union, on the grounds that it had not followed to the letter of the law the 1992 Trade Union Act.

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1st Communique of the People's Revolutionary Socialist Party

17-05-2010 13:32

Viva la revolution!

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Greece: Restaurant workers VS Banquet

17-05-2010 08:43

Banquet is a restaurant in Greece with very bad working conditions that leaves its workers unpaid and recently fired a worker for no reason. But the workers are getting organized...

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Workers' Fightback - War Without Frontiers

16-05-2010 18:11

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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A Union For All Workers

16-05-2010 17:08

Building the One Great Union of all workers in the UK

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River transport strike paralyses Bangladesh

15-05-2010 18:43

A week-long strike of river vessel and port workers continues, despite severe state repression.

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Greece Rebellion

15-05-2010 09:49

Follow the Greelk people..

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Greece: Blood and tears for the proletariat!

13-05-2010 15:25

In order to resist the policy of blood and tears which the bourgeoisie inflicts on it, the proletariat has no other possibility than the resumption of the class struggle, starting with the rejection of anti-worker measures by the government and the calls for “national solidarity”, and for sacrifices “to defend the fatherland and democracy”.

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Second attempt to remove Huseini Abubakar

13-05-2010 13:02

Personal Appeal from Huseini - Removal this Sunday