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Pickets win re-instatement of migrant worker

10-03-2008 11:44

Following two successful pickets of Delaney’s restaurant in Belfast Dasa Kacova has won all her demands and been offered her job back.

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Bristol Shelter Workers Strike

10-03-2008 10:03

Today, Monday 10th March 2008, workers from Bristol and South Gloucestershire Housing Aid Centre’s, and their supporters, will be holding a picket line/protest 12pm-2pm outside Shelter’s regional office – 1 York Court, Wilder Street, St Pauls, Bristol BS2.

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Princess Diana speaks, Columbia Solidarity Street Theatre & How to Self-Publish

09-03-2008 02:09

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Dialect Radio is a Bristol (UK) internet broadcasting co-operative run by volunteers. Our main activity is our weekly current affairs and arts magazine programme Dialect, which is recorded at the British Empire and Commonwealth museum at Temple Meads.

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Oaxacan prisoner David Venegas is released.

08-03-2008 19:37

After 11 months illegal imprisonment, David Venegas Reyes 'El Alebrije' has been released.

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Around the Campaigns Friday 7th March 2008

07-03-2008 10:52

Resumption of Removals to Zimbabwe!
Over the past few days many Zimbabwean's recently refused asylum, have received letters from the Boarder and Immigration Agency (BIA), saying that BIA, "is expecting shortly to be able to enforce returns to Zimbabwe". Most of the recipients of these letter are living in the North east/west of England. Also Zimbabweans with refugee status have received letters asking them if they would like to leave the UK voluntarily for a cash incentive.

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Instant Muscle 'workfare' Job Centre contractor goes bust

06-03-2008 16:34

Training provider Instant Muscle went into administration last week, leaving staff unpaid for February and unemployed trainees turned away from the doorsteps of their training centres. Staff were given termination letters as they arrived at work on the 27th.

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Vauxhall Staff Wildcat In Ellesmere Port...Again!

05-03-2008 17:46

Around five hundred staff at the Vauxhall plant in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, are reported to have walked out yesterday, over rumours that the company plan to axe 460 jobs.

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Strike threat resurfaces at Royal Mail

04-03-2008 15:37

Hot on the heels of the wildcat strikes over pay in 2007, Royal Mail faces the threat of a new round of industrial action.Unions have rejected the postal group's plan to overhaul its pensions scheme and are poised to ballot nearly 150,000 members over whether they back the plan or not.

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Jumoke, Elizabeth and Daniella have been 'Snatched' again

04-03-2008 06:55

Jumoke, Elizabeth and Daniella
Our friend Jumoke and her kids, Elizabeth and Daniella, were 'snatched' again on Saturday morning and are back in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre. They are to be forcibly removed from the UK on Virgin Nigeria Airways Flight VK292 on Thursday March 6th leaving Gatwick at 10:15hrs to Lagos/Nigeria.

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CDG - the lying continues

03-03-2008 10:16

The lying at CDG has evolved from little white lies to big black lies

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Zaman Ahmed belongs to Birmingham

03-03-2008 09:14

Zaman currently in Manchester Airport IRC, is due to be forcibly removed on Hamburg International Airlines 'Ethnic charter flight' for UK Home Office 'Operation Ravel' tomorrow Tuesday March 4th 2008 at 20:30hrs from the UK, flight PVT008 to Baku for onward transit to Kabul/Afghanistan.

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ILWU to Shut Down West Coast Ports May 1 Demanding End to War in Iraq, Afghanistan

02-03-2008 01:19

In a major step for the U.S. labor movement, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has announced that it will shut down West Coast ports on May 1, to demand an immediate end to the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East. This is the first time in decades that an American union has decided to undertake industrial action against a U.S. war. The action announced by the powerful West Coast dock workers union, to stop work to stop the war, should be taken up by unions and labor organizations throughout the United States and internationally. And the purpose of such actions should be not to beg the bourgeois politicians whose hands are covered with blood, having voted for every war budget for six and a half years, but a show of strength of the working people who make this country run, and who can shut it down!

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Unions prepare to sell out jobs fight at Rolls-Royce

01-03-2008 19:14

At the beginning of this year, aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce announced plans to axe 2,300 highly skilled jobs, about 6 percent of its 39,500 global workforce. The company is the world’s second largest manufacturer of jet engines after the American giant General Electric, with a 36 percent share of the market. Most of the job losses are expected to hit the company’s 23,000-strong UK workforce and affect white-collar workers based at its main site in Derby.

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Brutal police attack on striking shipyard workers

01-03-2008 19:10

On February 25, the Port, Shipyard, Ship Construction and Repair Workers Trade Union (Limter-Is) called for a 24-hour strike from February 27 in order to protest against the appalling safety and working conditions at the Istanbul, Tuzla shipyards.

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Proletarian Solidarity against the Repression in Cameroon!

01-03-2008 11:03

Douala, February 27
After last week in Burkina Faso, it is Cameroon this week that has witnessed demonstrations and strikes against inflation and the high cost of living; and the bestial repression of these movements of protest.

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Revolutionary 1st of May Berlin Kreuzberg 2008

29-02-2008 17:24

At the video platform now a mobilization clip for the Revolutionary 1st of May 2008 in Berlin-Kreuzberg is puplished. Will there be also a virtual riot like in the last year at the second-life newBerlin at first of may?

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Around the Campaigns Friday 29th February 2008

29-02-2008 12:37

Constance & Andreas / Helen & Alistair / Evelyne & Adou
Removals from the UK were down again in the last quarter for which the Home Office have released figures.

Am sure all the campaigning had a lot to do with it!

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Eyewitness from Iraq and Lebanon in Tour

29-02-2008 03:46

Andrew Murray / Chair of Stop the War Coalition
Several Eyewitness from Iraq and Lebanon gave a talk today 28th February 08, in the Friends House in Euston, London.

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Shelter Strike Action

28-02-2008 19:40

Staff at Shelter to strike Wednesday 5th March

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Hands Off Iraqi Oil - Birmingham Forecourt Closure. Full story

27-02-2008 23:04

A group of twenty protesters successfully closed down a Shell forecourt for two hours on Saturday 23rd Feb as a part of the call to action by Hands Off Iraqi Oil. We aimed to send a message of solidarity to Iraqi oil workers resisting attempts by oil companies aided by UK government to steal billions of dollars in oil revenue from their devastated country. Local community responded positively overall.