London Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

17-03-2007 15:08

8000 unemployed doctors? 12000 marching

12,000 or more doctors marched in protest against government-imposed reforms to medical training that have Read more >>

16-03-2007 19:54 | 1 addition

March tomorrow in London

Tomorrow there is a march in London (and also in Glasgow) starting at 11am from the Royal College of Physicians. This is to protest against the farce that has been unfolding the past few months related to junior doctors' training which is likely to see between 8-15 thousand doctors unemployed come the beginning of August. Read more >>

13-03-2007 23:48

PRE EMPTIVE STRIKE FOR PEACE - MARCH 20th 2007 - Parliament Square

Withdraw your labour, book a day off work, or take a break from your usual routine and show the government that you are opposed to any actions or steps that might be taken that threaten the sovereign nation of Iran. Read more >>

13-03-2007 11:02

Work, is a four letter word.

Public meeting, next Thursday 22nd of March. Read more >>

07-03-2007 12:40

Starbucks Picket at Cutty Sark Greenwich

Sat 10th March 12 noon

SOLIDARITY WITH VICTIMISED STARBUCKS WORKERS Read more >>

06-03-2007 16:38

The case for socialist feminism: class, capitalism and women's liberation

An opportunity to come and discuss socialist feminist ideas. Read more >>

04-03-2007 20:40 | 1 addition

Pix of Hackney Save NHS Demo

March to Homerton Hospital and rally outside Hackney Town Hall, part of Save the NHS day of action, Saturday 3rd March. Read more >>

03-03-2007 14:33

Do You REALLY Love Hackney?

How to influence local, national, and global planning policy using a simple criminal law argument.... Read more >>

28-02-2007 14:56

Update on abortion rights march, Saturday 3 March

Please support and take part in the march for abortion rights taking place on Saturday 3 March. Read more >>

23-02-2007 09:29

DR Congo is not safe - stop the 'Charter Flight'

Emergency protest - Monday 26 February 1.00 -3.00pm.
Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
(nearest tubes: St James Park and Westminster) Read more >>

22-02-2007 12:20

Feminist Fightback update: stop the war, abortion rights, Iraq and Iran

An update on things happening in the coming period: feminist leafleting on Stop the War demo and banner-making at LARC; marching for abortion rights; supporting Iraqi and Iranian women. Read more >>

20-02-2007 06:02

No forced 'Charter Fllights' to DR Congo

The UK Home Office is stepping up the use of 'Charter Flights' to remove those refused asylum from the UK Read more >>

16-02-2007 20:16

An activist from Oaxaca speaks in London, 17 February, 2pm!

An activist from the celebrated Oaxaca struggle is speaking in London on Saturday 17 February. Read more >>

14-02-2007 09:39

Friends of John Okello

John Oneka Okello, 58 from Uganda was detained at Beckett House Immigration Reporting Centre on Saturday 3rd February and currently detained in Tinsley IRC. He has been in the UK seeking asylum for 10 years and his claim has been refused. For the last five years he has not been allowed to work and has received no benefits in that time. Read more >>

12-02-2007 11:49

Brize Norton - Anti forced removals demonstration

60 people assembled on the gates of Brize Norton airbase this morning Monday 12th February to protest against a charter flight that was to leave the base with 50/60 refused Kurdistan asylum seekers.

[The photos below are from the No Borders demo at Harmondsworth on Saturday] Read more >>

11-02-2007 15:59

They shall not pass - demo @ kalyx/Colnbrook 10th February 2007

200 + demonstrators from all over the UK supported the demo outside Kalyx/Colnbrook called by the 'No Borders Network'

Police bottle it
For over an hour no traffic passed in or out of the complex as the police gave up trying to clear a path through the assembled protestors. Read more >>

31-01-2007 22:46

Kent Union blocks Coke boycott

Members of University of Kent Union voted against ending the near-monopoly on soft drinks held on campus by Coca-Cola at their AGM on Tuesday evening, and blocked moves to join the growing international boycott of the company, which is accused of human rights violations and environmental injustices. Read more >>

30-01-2007 18:00

PROTEST FOR ABORTION RIGHTS, 3 March

Come and join this protest for abortion rights in central London on Saturday 3 March...

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28-01-2007 07:26

Colombian farmers evicted by British mining companies

Representatives of African-Colombian and Indigenous families evicted from their land in the province of La Guajira, Colombia to make way for a massive opencast coal mine will speak in London on Monday 29th January, 6.30pm-8.30pm at The Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2.

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23-01-2007 07:15

Stop the Deportation of Iraqi/Kurdish Asylum Seekers

Reports today show that more than 2 million Iraqi refugees, fleeing conflict in their homeland, are being supported in neighbouring countries including Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt, which are struggling to cope with the exodus. Some countries are preventing refugees from crossing their borders, contrary to international law, and prompting international aid agencies to warn of a humanitarian crisis. Read more >>