Liverpool Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

11-03-2009 14:49

Justice for the Shrewsbury 24 building workers! Support EDM 1002

1972 was a year of successful industrial action in Britain. The miners had won over pay, the Tory Government had been forced to release five imprisoned dockers. 1972 also saw Britain's first National Building Workers' strike. The strike committees of North Wales building workers would go on to be the victims of one of the worst miscarriages of justice since the days of the Toll Puddle Martyrs. They would be vilified and hounded by parts of the press, convicted by a court as a deterrent to strikers, and abandoned by their own union leaders and the TUC. Six of them would go to prison and one of these would die later as a result of the treatment he received while there. See

http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/issues/nerve10/shrewsbury_pickets.php

37 years later, an Early Day Motion (EDM) has been tabled demanding a public inquiry into the gross miscarriages of justice and disclosure of all Government and security papers relating to the case.
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11-02-2009 00:15 | 1 comment

Wirral Council Votes To Slash Services: What Now?

When Wirral Council finally voted to go ahead with the Cabinet's proposed slashing of local services on 9th February, it caused anguish to the hundreds of people who have been campaigning for the last few months. Council employees are now set to lose their jobs at the worst possible time, as a global recession bites. Service users have lost access to libraries, leisure centres, and cultural venues. This terrible attack on ordinary people has shown the limitations of protests, letter-writing campaigns, and pinning hopes on politicians. The need for a new strategy has been highlighted. Read more >>

10-02-2009 01:01 | 1 comment

Strikes in oil refineries and power stations

The walk-outs and demonstrations by workers in oil refineries and power stations over the question of unemployment show the depth of anger in the working class faced with the tidal wave of redundancies brought about by the economic crisis. This wave of lay-offs and short-time working is not confined to Britain but is engulfing the globe. From the USA to China, from western Europe to Russia, no workers' job is safe; and even when they have work, wages are being cut and working conditions worsened. Read more >>

08-02-2009 15:38

Full Disclosure or Damage Control

Last week a High Court ruling confirmed Binyam Mohamed was tortured whilst in the custody of the US in the full knowledge and cooperation of the Blair government. Mohamed has claimed that he was beaten, scalded and subjected to sleep deprivation, starvation and other forms of extreme mental and physical torture. Furthermore, British authorities were aware of the extent of the torture that Mohammed was subjected to making them complicit in his unlawful detention and abuse. Read more >>

03-02-2009 21:55 | 2 comments

Royal Mail faces privatisation and jobs massacre

In a move that threatens tens of thousands of jobs and a further worsening of conditions for postal workers, the government has approved the partial privatisation of Royal Mail, the UK's state-run postal service. Read more >>

29-01-2009 03:42

What the hell's going on and what can we do about it?

As the economy crashes, will Liverpool be the 2009 capital of crisis? How can we fight back?

Date:
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Time:
7:30pm - 11:30pm
Location:
Next To Nowhere (Liverpool Social Centre)
Street:
96A Bold Street
City/Town:
Liverpool, United Kingdom Read more >>

12-01-2009 07:19

Friends of Deare Hamanajam

Deare Hamanajam a Liverpool/Iraqi Kurd (8 years residency in the city) is currently detained in Colnbrook IRC and has been served with *open ended removal directions and told that he will be removed by a 'specially chartered flight' to KRG/Iraq. Read more >>

11-01-2009 21:07 | 3 additions

Two Hundred March Against Wirral Cuts

As hundreds of thousands in London, Edinburgh and around the world demonstrated against Israel's genocidal attacks on Gaza, a much smaller protest took place in Wallasey, Merseyside. While it would be inappropriate to draw many parallels between the two, it can be said the struggle for life and freedom in Palestine and for decent public services in this country have one thing in common: they represent squares in the global chess match between the profit system and the rest of humanity. Read more >>

04-01-2009 23:07 | 2 comments

Israel, Bloody Executioner for the World Capitalist Order

On Saturday evening January 3, after one week of air raids which left more than 450 dead and more than 2000 wounded, the Israeli army began its land offensive into Gaza. Its military officials declare that the operation will be “long”. The odious Israeli propaganda, broadcast by the majority of the international media, presents this bloody attack as a “response” to the salvos of the “terrorists”of Hamas in power in Gaza. Read more >>

18-12-2008 00:59

[Greece] Workers and Youth together on the streets to Overthrow The Government!

Political statement of OKDE - Ergatiki Pali Read more >>

15-12-2008 22:41

Christmas strikes could hit Royal Mail

Workers in Coventry, Crewe, Liverpool, Stockport, Bolton and Oxford are threatening 24-hour strike action on Friday over the proposed merger of some depots. The Communication Workers Union says 500 jobs could be lost and has challenged Royal Mail to negotiate. Read more >>

13-12-2008 17:09 | 8 comments

The Rage in Greece

May the Anger of the Unemployed and Students be Tranformed into Combativeness for the Resumption of the Class Struggle of the Proletariat ! Read more >>

11-12-2008 22:56 | 2 comments

Wirral Against Service Cuts

A crowd of two hundred or more Wirral residents gathered at Wallasey Town Hall last night, to show their anger at the council's planned cuts to vital services. Read more >>

03-12-2008 20:57

The Mad World of Work

The latest issue of Nerve magazine is now out, and available free from the Catalyst office (85-89 Duke Street), News From Nowhere on Bold Street, and various other outlets around Merseyside. It is also online, at

http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk. This time the focus is on definitions and experiences of work. Read more >>

28-11-2008 17:24 | 1 addition

Fury as Wirral Council Slashes Public Facilities

Protesters showed their anger at a Wirral Council meeting last night, as the cabinet approved massive cuts to local library and recreation services. Read more >>

24-11-2008 08:59 | 1 comment

2nd Working Class Bookfair Success

Nice article (3 columns - Top and centre of page) and photo in today's Northern Echo (24.11.08, page 26) about the 2nd Annual North East Working Class Bookfair. Read more >>

20-11-2008 20:20

NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 11.20.08

Some "Antiwar" Groups Excuse Obama's Pro-War Cabinet:
Kevin Martin, executive director of the group Peace Action, said. . . . "There's so much Obama hero worship, we're having to walk this line where we can't directly criticize him" . . . . Tom Andrews, national director of Win Without War, said that although he finds Sen. Clinton's views "very troubling," Obama should be given the benefit of the doubt. Read more >>

18-11-2008 22:49

NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 11.18.08

[I]t will be interesting to see how antiwar activists react to this. Are they antiwar or just anti-Republican? Read more >>

16-11-2008 12:04

G20 leaders told to back off by Filipino workers

Filipino Workers to heads of G20: Creating a better world order is no more your business
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11-11-2008 22:06 | 4 comments

Despite its crises Capitalism will only collapse under the blows of the prolet

The financial crisis which really began in the summer 2007 with the first bankruptcies of funds specializing in the famous American subprimes, has inexorably increased its sheer magnitude before entering its acute phase commencing at the end of this summer.
For a year the highest ranking financial and political officials in the world, as faithfully reported by all the international media, constantly minimized its extension, being mightily pleased, after each attack of the speculative fever, with the promptitude of the central banks and governments to administer the adequate remedy for the financial system, and regularly announcing the end of the crisis and the pursuit of economic growth.

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