London Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

05-04-2008 17:44

Free Mumia now! All out for 19 April united-front demonstration!

Free Mumia now!

Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!

Abolish the racist
death penalty!

Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street) Read more >>

03-04-2008 13:10

Direct action gets the goods once again, this time in London

An underpaying, exploitative restuarant boss in London was forced to pay a foreign kitchen porter his owed wages and also holiday pay when a picket arrived outside his restaurant, backed up by threats of legal action. Read more >>

03-04-2008 11:27

EuroMayDay Promo Video

A EuroMayDay promo video has been made and is on YouTube. Check it out! Link it. Add it to your blog/MySpace, etc... Read more >>

03-04-2008 00:44

Free Mumia now! All out for 19 April united-front demonstration!

Free Mumia now!

Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!

Abolish the racist
death penalty!

Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street) Read more >>

29-03-2008 15:27

Save Our Blood Service - 11th April Watford

demonstrate friday 11th April 12pm in Watford to defend the National Blood Service and defend the NHS. Meet at 12 outside Watford Junction station. Read more >>

27-03-2008 22:09

Emergency protest TODAY for Mumia Abu-Jamal!

URGENT! Emergency protest TODAY at the US Embassy!
All out for the emergency protest!

5pm Friday 28 March 2008
US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, W1 (Nearest Tube: Bond Street)

ORGANISE OTHERS TO COME OUT!

Read more >>

27-03-2008 14:17 | 1 addition

Programme for Saturday's conference against immigration controls

Programme for trade union and community conference against immigration controls
Saturday March 29th 10.30 - 5.30
SOAS, University of London
(Russell Square tube; entrance via Malet St/Thornhaugh St - see website for map) Read more >>

26-03-2008 15:16 | 1 addition

Boycott Pizza Express

Nabil Guirguis unfairly dismissed - boycott Pizza Express and demand his reinstatement. Read more >>

26-03-2008 11:34

Kicking them out one door, Bringing them in the other

There are known to be 39 refused asylum seekers from Iraq in detention and facing forced removal to Iraq tomorrow Thursday 27th March; 30 in Campsfield, 5 in Colnbrook and 4 in Oakington. We suspect the actual number detained is much higher. Read more >>

25-03-2008 16:58

Int'l Union of Sex Workers Benefit @ Hackney Social Centre

On Saturday 29th March, HSC will host a night of music, DJs and VJs to raise money for the IUSW. Sex workers of the world unite! Read more >>

25-03-2008 15:30

Photography protest looms at Scotland Yard (28.03.08)

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) is to stage a protest outside New Scotland Yard in a fight for photographers' rights, sparked by the police's recent anti-terror publicity. Read more >>

21-03-2008 18:51

March 29 London union and community conference against immigration controls

A national gathering of trade union and community activists called by Finsbury Park RMT and others, in the light of new legislation against illegal working and other ongoing attacks on migrant workers and refugees. Read more >>

20-03-2008 10:32

Notts Peoples post offices still fighting despite cutbacks & government spite

All is not lost, up to 50 councils are looking at running post offices& are checking Essex council who are leading the charge backed up by peoples post offices like Carrington which is leading the way in saying we can run them profitably ourselves if necessary, all we need is a small loan float of 18,000. Business plans are being built & another large carrington meet is planned in a month or so.All the MPs from both parties who voted with the government will lose votes & people will continue the fight to reopen our post offices in or out of central government control! Read more >>

13-03-2008 16:14

UK Returns to Colonial Slavery with Terminal 5

Investigations show that British Airways felt that Black and Asian Males were not good enough to have usefull jobs on the T5 project. They were employed more like 'go for's' and used to carry out mundain tasks. Thhere was not a single black fulltime employee involved in T5 by BA. So what are male ethnic minorty qualified staff worth to the UK? and why do so many black and asians support this kind of a regime by continueing to fly with BA? Read more >>

12-03-2008 22:51

No to 7% rent rises and no to privatisation in Lambeth!

Rent rises and privatisation:

What do you think about the council’s proposals?

Public meeting for all Lambeth tenants/residents and staff
6.30pm to 9pm
Thursday 13 March
Assembly Halls, Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton Read more >>

29-02-2008 03:46

Eyewitness from Iraq and Lebanon in Tour

Several Eyewitness from Iraq and Lebanon gave a talk today 28th February 08, in the Friends House in Euston, London. Read more >>

25-02-2008 15:58

Cabaret against capitalism - Don Letts benefit 4 No Sweat, Thursday, Kings Cross

A benefit to raise money for the anti-sweatshop, anti-capitalist solidarity campaign. Read more >>

23-02-2008 23:23 | 1 addition

Hands Off Iraqi Oil - London demo

Pics from the corporate pirates' tour of the capital on the 'Hands Off Iraqi Oil' International Day of Action, Saturday 23 February 2008. They were protesting against the multinational oil companies' ongoing attempts to profit from the occupation and death of an estimated million people in Iraq by plundering the country's oil resources; a move strongly opposed by the Iraqi oil workers' unions and general populace.
Read more >>

21-02-2008 10:36

Mayday 2008

reclaim mayday Read more >>

15-02-2008 16:59

Supersize My Pay: activists from France and New Zealand speak in London tomorrow

Mike Treen from New Zealand's Unite union, which organised the first Starbucks strike in the world, and French fast food worker and union activist Axel Perrson will speak in London tomorrow. Read more >>