Skip to content or view screen version

UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

Full article | 7 comments

>> 21 Nov 2012 << London Protest >>

08-11-2012 21:55

Click to enlarge - A4 sheet cuts horizontally into 3 stickers
Tell your grand-kids what YOU did during the war!

 http://www.demo2012.org.uk/

Full article | 1 comment

Leicester - Smash Workfare Saturday!

08-11-2012 17:31

Leicester action against workfare, from 9.30 am, this Saturday 10th November. Claimants, workers, waged, unwaged... all welcome to get involved.

Full article | 9 comments

Greece, Athens: General strike 07.11.2012 - riots (photos)

08-11-2012 16:36

Greece, Athens: General strike 07.11.2012 - riots (photos)

Full article

Film Night & Talk - Justice For The Shrewsbury 24

07-11-2012 10:58

The Shrewsbury 24 were builders who took part in pickets of building sites during the first ever national building workers strike. Six of the pickets were stitched up on conspiracy charges and sent down for up to 3 years. Their crime was to be part of a trade union campaign to get a decent rate of pay and safer working conditions for all building workers.

Full article

FBI Forensic Computer Crime Experts Asked To Investigate Romney-Owned Machines

05-11-2012 18:01

Greg Palast Book on Republican Fraud
In the US, Mitt and Ann Romney and 2 of their sons have controlling interest in Hart Intercivic, the machines which in Cincinnati in the middle of the night turned 300,000 Kerry votes into Bush votes in 2004. ESS, another Republican owned 'voting machine' company, has added untested software patches to their scanners.

Full article | 3 comments

Cambridge demo against 200 Tesco Drivers threatened with sack.

04-11-2012 20:27

Small but significant...
Yesterday morning (Saturday) a small but significant demonstration took place in front of the already controversial Mill Road Tesco in Cambridge, accompanied by the strains of Billy Bragg on a portable sound system.

Full article | 1 comment

Westcountry Mutineer issue #2

04-11-2012 12:26

Weclome to issue 2 of the Westcountry Mutineer - your one stop anti-shop for all the best direct action, protest, strikes and scandals from the Westcountry and beyond

Drop us an email at  mutineerpress@riseup.net to subscribe, get involved, help distribute in your neck of the woods, or sue

Full article

Gallery: greek anarchist posters - part 4

03-11-2012 14:27

Gallery: greek anarchist posters - part 4

Full article

Gallery: greek anarchist posters - part 3

03-11-2012 14:19

Gallery: greek anarchist posters - part 3

Full article

Gallery: greek anarchist posters - part 2

03-11-2012 14:11

Gallery: greek anarchist posters - part 2

Full article | 1 addition | 2 comments

Gallery: greek anarchist posters - part 1

03-11-2012 14:00

Gallery: greek anarchist posters - part 1

Full article

Spain: CNT general strike in Barcelona - photos

02-11-2012 14:15

Spain: CNT general strike in Barcelona - photos

Full article | 4 comments

Obama has been warned that Global Warming will cause Extinction of Humanity

01-11-2012 18:49

A warning that humanity faces extinction this century as a result of global warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels, and that America would be hit soon by more hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis was sent to the president of America Barack Obama on 17 October 2012, just 12 days before the earthquake and tsunami off the coast of British Columbia and the 10,000 square mile Frankenstorm Sandy which hit the United States.

Full article

'Can We Rebuild the Plebs Tradition?'/Destruction of Archives at Ruskin College

01-11-2012 12:25

Meeting in Barsley on 24th November organised by the Independent Working-Class Education Network entitled 'Can We Rebuild the Plebs Tradition?'
Also, info on how the archives of Ruskin College, pioneer institution of working-class education, have been partly destroyed, on the instructions of the college principal and despite protests and an offer from the Bishopsgate Institute to take everything. What remains may still be at risk.

Full article | 4 comments

Greece: antifascist moto patrols in Athens- VIDEO

31-10-2012 11:03

Greece: antifascist moto patrols in Athens- VIDEO

Full article

Sheffield Unions back European strike

30-10-2012 13:32

Sheffield trades union council has voted in favour of holding a demonstration in support of millions of striking workers and students across Europe, on November the 14th. Local pcs branches will call for walk outs and students are expected to join the demonstration outside Sheffield town hall 4pm Wednesday the 14th of November.

Full article

Anyone With A Heart Would Not Support Workfare

29-10-2012 14:02

Boycott Workfare West Midlands will be holding a demonstration at the British Heart Foundation on Harborne High Street because of their involvement with workfare programmes that will see benefit claimants kicked off benefits for three years if they don’t take part in forced unpaid work schemes like Mandatory Work Activity.

Full article

Free Internet Book: "The World Crisis and Beyond," 182 pp

23-10-2012 18:45

Once the source of hope, the US is often a source of fear. Closing most of the 700+ bases would be a step from empire to republic. Security is a political and social challenge, not only a military project. Development should be a right, not only a hope and a promise. The future should be open and dynamic, not closed and static where the poor are forgotten (cf. J.Moltmann, C.Johnson, E.Hobsbawm)