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International Trade Union meeting/conference - Paris - March 22-24

13-02-2013 10:42 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

For anyone interested from autonomous Trade Union movements:

The following international conference has been called. The details are below and if anyone is interested you can contact NOII UK by email to find out more and for the PDF doc invitation.

So far there are:

3 delegates from Liverpool TUC (UCU, Unite and UCATT), 2 delegates from the
RMT national exec, one delegate from NUT, UCU, Save ancoats dispensary
community campaign, London Mick Dooley and some others.

On the Abolition of Empire

12-02-2013 23:28 | Technology | World

The careful look at this world reveals a lethal diagnosis: imperialism. The symptoms are obvious, the denial is total, the precedents for cure are rare, and yet its track record is long and its destructive forces are peaking ever more. What is new is that the technology gap is closing, the period which let imperialism grow but also provided the possibility of independence from it. The cyber imperialism of now brings back the worst aspect of tribal life, and only the worst, and is trying to enslave it for its destructive forces - the impossibility of independence. This is especially odd since if anything good can be said about technological progress then it is that it removed any material need for social dependency. One need not adore the technology it brought, but as a result thereof it was possible to take other ways than the most aggressive group in the tribe. Now technology seems to produce an impossibility to choose any other ways than the most aggressive group in the species.

It’s Official: UK Government’s Workfare Programme is Illegal Forced Labour

The UK Government’s controversial Back to Work programme, deemed workfare by critics, received a bloody nose this week as all but one of the WorkFare schemes were found to compel a person’s labour and deemed illegal by the Court of Appeal at the Royal Courts of Justice. Though not an ultimate victory, this ruling sends a clear signal to the UK government that the public might not be willing to surrender their social contract without a fight after all.

A Letter From Jock Palfreeman - Anti-fascist Prisoner On Hunger Strike

11-02-2013 23:24 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Australian Anti-fascist prisoner Jock Palfreeman, serving 20 years in Sofia/Bulgaria for defending two Roma boys from a racist mob, is on hungerstrike from 13th January 2013 because the Director of the Central Sofia Prison has ordered another punishment measure because of Jock´s activist work as chairman of the Bulgarian Prisoner´s Association.

Dr Azzam Tamimi – The Arab Uprising and its Effect on Egypt & Palestine

11-02-2013 21:16 | Anti-racism | History | Palestine | World

Dr Tamimi, a British Palestinian academic and political activist delivered his opinion on the Arab Uprising and its effects on Egypt and Palestine on Sunday 10th February 2013 in Peterborough, UK. A video of his presentation can be viewed here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCeh7uk37rc&feature=share&list=UU7XhMItxEJ2mNmwSoflTHLQ

Solidarity Brings Freedom and Justice for Zapatista Francisco Sántiz López

After 417 days of wrongful imprisonment, the Zapatista political prisoner is freed.

Thanks to all the people and organizations throughout the world who campaigned for his liberation.

Another theory about Obama's domestic army

11-02-2013 12:03 | Culture | Repression | Liverpool | World

Another theory about Obama's domestic army

UG#613 - Economic Disposal of The Worthless (Hidden History of Eugenics in USA)

This show examines the history of eugenics in USA. Robert Whitaker tells how WASPish business magnates took up the idea of racial purity and aggressively promoted eugenics, leading directly to forced sterilizations and lobotomies across USA, and indirectly to Nazi Germany's Final Solution.

Iraq Ten Years On: What You Don’t Hear!

10-02-2013 11:22 | Health | Iraq | Terror War | World

As 2013 marks the tenth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, I feel there are some points of focus which the media and campaigners need to address, if they wish to provide substance, to any area of serious discussion.

CURO Housing tenants faced with stark choices this April

09-02-2013 12:36 | Social Struggles | Wales | World

CURO Housing landlord gives 1000 of its tenants 3 choices 1) move out 2) take in lodger 3) pay bedroom tax

Catholic Church Torture case in U.S. Supreme Court

08-02-2013 13:12 | Repression | Terror War | World

Catholic torture of a political activist now before U.S. high court. Huminski v. Mercy Gilbert Mecical Center. Court papers reveal an unholy alliance between Sheriff Joseph Arpaio, Federal Judge Frederick Martone (both life-long Catholics) and a Catholic Church hospital network, Dignity Health, and their efforts to silence a critic of the racist sheriff with an attempted murder and torture at a Catholic hospital, Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, Gilbert, Arizona.

UG#612 - From Conquistadors to Opium Wars (Debt & the Great Capitalist Empires)

This time we look at the grim consequences of the logic of imperialist exploitation for profit since the Middle Ages. As a specific example of the general principles we read about in Debt, The First 5000 Years we hear Frank Sanello on the Opium Wars between Britain and China.

Figaro, figaro, figaro...

07-02-2013 18:11 | Ecology | World

Dear friends,
The article you see below, in Italian and English, was published here a few days ago, in English. I ask your help to make it reach italian fellows, because that of 9 sites that were there, 8 closed, and the remaining one blocks ips from outside. which is a great pity for democracy and freedom.
Thanks to you guys, friends, once again, for being the firm guarantors of freedom that you are.

Israel Fuels Syrian Fire, Risking Regional Outburst

07-02-2013 07:14 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Palestine | World

Israel is either trying to escalate militarily to embroil an unwilling United States in the Syrian conflict, in a too late attempt to pre-empt a political solution, out of a belief that the fall of the Al – Assad regime will serve Israel’s strategy or to establish for itself a seat at any international negotiating table that might be detrimental in shaping a future regime in Syria.

Gabriel Pombo Da Silva, Incommunicado in Spain

06-02-2013 19:51 | Repression | World

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The Black Panther Party’s Living Legacy --with Billy X Jennings

04-02-2013 21:43 | Anti-racism | Education | Policing | World

Last month, the "Dismantling Racism" class from St. Catherine University in Minnesota was taken on a Black Panther History Tour in Oakland and Berkeley, California, led by Billy X Jennings from It's AboutTime BPP Alumni & Legacy. Angola 3 News came along and filmed the tour. This is part one.

Solidarity campaign for liberated spaces and anarchist comrades worldwide

04-02-2013 21:23 | Free Spaces | Repression | Terror War | World

We call for a worldwide campaign of direct actions in solidarity with liberated spaces from the 2nd to the 12th of February 2013.
But we don’t want to stop after a couple of actions, because this is much more than just a reaction to repression. This is a call out to all anarchists and anti-authoritarians to fight now across the world.

“Everything changes apart from the money”: Conditions for settlement workers in the Jordan Valley – January 2013 (Part One)

04-02-2013 09:03 | Palestine | South Coast | World

On February 9th a coalition of civil society groups have called for an international day of action against Israeli agricultural companies in line with the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli militarism, apartheid and colonisation. Corporate Watch researchers are in Palestine collecting new information and over the coming weeks Corporate Watch will be writing a series of articles and blogs examining Israeli agricultural exports.