UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive
Around the Campaigns Thursday 23rd September 2010
23-09-2010 08:51
Yarl's Wood five update, Sheffield Family Campaign, Iraqi deportations, Vietnam, EDMWest Midlands IWW Benefit Gig
19-09-2010 15:18
The Women Chainmakers' Festival 2010
19-09-2010 12:19
Tory conference to kick off winter of discontent
18-09-2010 00:32
The demonstrations opposing austerity at the tory conference on october 3rd will, say trade union reps, herald the start of a winter of discontent in the UK as the cuts move beyond government memos and newspaper opinion columns and become a horrendous part of daily life. Unsurprisingly, west midlands police are attempting to stall and limit the scale of action at the demo. It seems the anti-cuts campaign is beginning to spring into life as a mass movement just in time to assert itself in the face of state-sponsored class war and protest repression.To the anarchists ...
17-09-2010 23:40
This was originally posted on Bristol Indymedia at this address
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/693475 I wrote this as part of the bristol anarchist/squatter movement. We seem to have a lot of energy and mobilisation going on at the moment over various issues/campaigns. So as austerity has arrived I've become confused about why on earth we've been so distant from the workers' movements. I wrote this as an appeal to people to get stuck in to local anti-cuts campaigns. It's opened up some very interesting debates online and in person, and has seen some interesting (and for me at least, positive) developments at meetings and in campaigning. I didn't write this to tear us apart - just to suggest ways we could improve our 'service'. I know very little of campaigns outside of the southwest so this may be of absolutely no relevance to you. I'm sure it will be relevant to some though, and I'd like to share my thoughts with people nationwide. I've edited it to bring in some stuff I wrote after publishing.
[Brussels2010] No Borders No Precarity: For freedom of movement, smash ECOFIN!
17-09-2010 14:30
Informations about the No Border camp and other initiatives in Brussels, from the 25th september to the 3rd october.[If there is not indication about the language, it mean the links are in english].
Brussels: Stop Precarity, Fuck Austerity !
17-09-2010 13:41
On September 29-30, Brussels, the EU capital, will be in the eye ofthe storm.
Audio from Oxford Save Our Services Meeting 2010-09-13
17-09-2010 06:50
Photos from Oxford Save Our Services Meeting 2010-09-13
16-09-2010 19:09
Tory Cuts Wreck lives - Tell David Cameron "Stuff your cuts, we won't pay"
15-09-2010 19:42
Demonstrate at Tory Party Conference 3rd OctoberGreat solidarity shown at Oxford Cuts meeting
14-09-2010 15:01
Unauthorised March - Tory Party Conference - 3rd October 2010 Birmingham.
10-09-2010 12:55
No permission, no stewards, no meetings with the filth, just us, working class action!
Meeting place and route to be announced the night of Saturday Oct 2nd.
Mapping Oxfordshire's Cuts meeting 13th 6.30pm
10-09-2010 08:24
Around the Campaigns Thursday 9th September 2010
09-09-2010 07:12
The last message from Patrick was on Saturday at 5:50 am to say that he was handcuffed and had 12 security officers controlling him. Attempts to contact Patrick since then have failed. Many thanks to all who tried to prevent the removal.
Keep Patrick Masengo in the UK, no removals to DR Congo
http://www.freemovement.org.uk/Media-2/PatrickMasengo.html
Critically examine the role UNISONs labour activities in Liverpool.
07-09-2010 14:50
Trade UnionismWorkers rights
Socialism
Education
Feedback: London Demonstration Against French & European Roma Evictions
06-09-2010 06:28
The Irish Traveller Movement in Britain (ITMB) and various UK refugee/migrant support groups demonstrated in solidarity with the Roma communities who are being forcefully evicted and deported in France. ITMB deplores President Sarkozy's policies which have resulted in families with children as young as 2 weeks old being evicted with less than 30 minutes notice.
Irish Travellers Group (who organized the demo) and English Gypsies are acutely aware of the racist anti Roma policies that are spreading across Europe. In recent days Roma communities in Italy have been made homeless when bulldozers razed the camps they lived on to the ground. In Hungry the far right Jobbick party have called for Roma communities to be detained in special guarded camps for indefinite periods of time.
ITMB would like to remind the British Government and public that the largest eviction of a Gypsy Roma Traveller community in Europe is presently taking place in Dale Farm, Essex. Like the Roma in Europe, Irish Travellers and English Gypsies in Britain face direct racism and discrimination on a daily basis.
GRT - Gypsy, Roma and Irish Travellers are the largest Minority group in Europe.
Gypsy's gained Ethnic Minority status in 1989 and Irish Travellers in 2000 and are since protected under the 'Race Relations Act 1976'. 9 out of 10 children from the GRT community have experienced racial abuse and nearly a third have been bullied or physically attacked.
For further information please call Irish Traveller Movement in Britain on 020 7607 2002 or email
info@irishtraveller.org.uk Full article | 1 addition | 4 comments
Sheffield Protests Against Nick Clegg
04-09-2010 08:11
Reinstate our right to march past the Tory Conference
03-09-2010 11:20
On Tuesday 24th August a delegation from the Right To Work campaign met with WestMidlands police and a representative of Birmingham City Council to discuss the route
of the protest march outside the Tory party conference on Sunday 3rd October.
West Midlands police stated that they were happy for RtW to march past the
conference centre and confirmed that centenary square, the square directly in front
of the conference centre, would not be a “sterile zone”. A route was suggested by
Birmingham City Council and West Midlands police and the delegation accepted the
offer to walk the route being proposed.
The Police have now reneged on the proposed route citing security reasons. They are
denying us the right to march past the conference centre.
Never Trust a Politician: Whether Red, Yellow or Blue!
02-09-2010 12:42
