UK Newswire Archive
Swansea union convenor sacked for supporting Ford/Visteon workers
28-04-2009 15:14
A union convenor at the Lindenmeyer Plant in Swansea, formerly owned by Ford Visteon has locked himself in his office after being sacked.[Name removed] Belongs to Leicester
28-04-2009 14:41
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British government denounced by charities for neglect of the poor
28-04-2009 14:36
“Save the Children has launched hundreds of grants projects in developing countries to help children in crisis. The UK public generally believe there’s no need for this sort of crisis grant here, but today Save the Children is helping distribute money to families right on our doorsteps. If the Government can find money for the banks then why can’t it afford money for our children?”Capitalism and Public health
28-04-2009 14:17
The industrial production of disease in a globalised economy is the result of competing economic priorities. Efforts toward the privatisation of Water in Mexico and the Industrial Waste Habits of Multinational Swine Producers join up with cheap air travel to promote global ill health.Another “terror scare” revealed as baseless
28-04-2009 13:56
Only the most damning political conclusions can be drawn from the admission that 12 people rounded up in a major terror scare in Britain have all been released without charge.American pig killing operation linked to disease in Mexico, Romania, Poland
28-04-2009 13:47
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plans to monitor ALL internet use
28-04-2009 13:43
Communications firms are being asked to record all internet contacts between people as part of a modernisation in UK police surveillance tactics.Tenth Anniversary of the Struggle for Justice and labor demand
28-04-2009 12:51
THE April 14, 1999, was dismissed from the energy company of Chaco Province, called SECH.EEP, residing at Calle Saenz Peña N º 170 - Resistencia, Chaco Province, Argentina. During the military dictatorship was formed as an authoritarian and corrupt management in the company, which lasted through time and the successive democratic governmentsBiggest ever London Mayday action, outside Bank tube, City of London.
28-04-2009 12:38
They thought they had beaten us off the streets on April the first. But no we are back with an even bigger event at Bank Place in the City of London on Friday May the first for the largest ever London Mayday event! Turn up at as close to four minutes past five pm on Friday the first of May.Between a rock and a hard place
28-04-2009 12:37
A major antifascist is about to publish his book entitled "Between a Rock and a Hard Place"Call for immediate UK compliance with international law on nuclear weapons
28-04-2009 12:19
Trident Ploughshares Press Release - Monday 27 April, 2009Trident Ploughshares has written an open letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown reminding him of Britain's legal obligations to disarm its nuclear weapons, ahead of next month's Preparatory Committee in New York for the 2010 Review Conference of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) [see notes 1, 2, 3]. The letter is additionally being sent to the Defence and Foreign Secretaries, and to the leaders of the major political parties in the UK.
It is not counselling conscientious objectors that is criminal, but rather not recognising the right to conscientious objection
28-04-2009 09:07
On 26 April 2009, five members of WRI's Israeli affiliate New Profile were detained by Israeli police, their homes raided, and their computers, and also computers of partners, seized. Among those detailed was also Sergeiy Sandler, a member of the WRI Council and Executive Committee. All those detained were interrogated at Ramat Hachiyal police station in the Yarkon Region of the police.Sick Factory Farming and The Flu Pandemic
28-04-2009 08:50
The sickening conditions for animals reared in factory farms are yet again implicated as the being at the festering center of the rapidly spreading fatal flu pandemic.End this injustice - Fourth attempt to remove Anselme Noumbiwa!
28-04-2009 08:10
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Anarchist Prisoner Amadeu Casellas returns to Hunger Strike (Catalunya)
28-04-2009 07:06
(Amadeu Casellas has been locked up in Catalunya for over 22 years, and in that time he has been active in the struggles of prisoners of the Spanish State. He is currently being held for longer than the law permits, and last year carried out a 76 day hunger strike that ended with the prison authorities promising to begin his release process.)Ewa Jasiewicz - Free Gaza Movement - Brighton -Tue 28th April
28-04-2009 04:21
EWA Jasiewicz has been on the ground in Gaza since November, having arrived on the siege breaking Free Gaza boat. She has been working on ambulances and reporting the reality of lives under siege and under military assault.Smash EDO target map creates story angle for desperate journalist
27-04-2009 23:42
Following this morning's printing by the Argus of the story of sussex police being told to be good little police officers at the upcoming may day event in Brighton they have decided to have a go at Smash EDO just to restore the status quo.![](/img/extlink.gif)
Stop the genocide of the Tamils
27-04-2009 22:55
Air strikes on so the called safety zone are continuing, in violation of Sri Lankan government's own announcement. Five air stikes Monday 27th April, hundreds of civilians killed or maimed. Civilians are running out of food.![](/img/extlink.gif)
Walk Wastwater for Chernobyl Children (UK)
27-04-2009 21:20
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Around the world events took place last weekend to remember the ongoing
Chernobyl disaster which is still felt in the UK Lake District with nine Cumbrian
farms still under restrictions.