World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

France: Victory for KFC workers

07-03-2007 12:48 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

After a three-day strike non-unionised workers at the Saint-Denis Basilique branch of KFC won a series of concessions from management.

India: Strike of 10,000 tailors enters seventh day

07-03-2007 12:45 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

March 5th, 2007 by John.
The indefinite strike of thousands of garment workers in Tirupur for a wage increase continues this week.

France: Police end occupation at Rennes University

07-03-2007 12:43 | Culture | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

March 5th, 2007 by jef costello

Some 50 students occupying the presidential administration offices at Rennes II University were evicted by CRS riot police. There do not appear to have been any arrests.

Berlin: Rigaer Straße Fights Back

06-03-2007 03:07 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

Berlin 2007: People's everyday life is increasingly dominated by fear, stress, and sorrow. Workplaces and social structures are being reduced, the cost of living is growing, at the same time incomes decline and jobs become more insecure. Unemployed people are being demonised as "parasites" and rents are getting higher,
even though thousands of houses are empty and slowly rotting. To be concise: the situation is becoming more and more impossible, especially for those who do not accept this logic and competion.

Uprisings in China :

05-03-2007 18:29 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

link to a film on youtube and is recommended you visit the webpage too to watch the other videos and read the story.

On The Ground, Ireland: Video/Report - Pushme-Pullyou on the picket line

Today, the first of March in this year of our corporate lord Shell E and P Ireland, the violence slowly started to sneak in again after nearly two weeks of daily peaceful pickets.

Ungdomshuset - demolition work has started

05-03-2007 12:39 | Free Spaces | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The new owners of Ungdomshuset, the Copenhagen 'Youth House', have started its demolition.

The demolition began on Monday morning (5 March) at 8 in the morning. Workmen wore masks and the company names on their vehicles were blacked out, apparently as a precaution against any reprisals.

AUSTRALIA: NSW committal for terrorism scapegoats begins at Penrith Court

05-03-2007 04:32 | Repression | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

In reality this is just a waste of taxpayer's money. The rules of evidence and standards have been reduced to compliment the draconian laws that go along with it. This is just a show trial for political purposes and all Australians should bow their heads in disgrace that the war criminal John Howard has stooped so low in order to continue his fear mongering and resource wars in the middle east.

Paramilitaries-low intensity war-zapatistas-natural resources

04-03-2007 20:05 | Repression | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

OPPDIC Leader Pedro Chulín Offers His “Total Support” to Governor Juan Sabines
His Sponsors Have Economic Interests in the Resources of the Selva Lacandona

(www.narconews.com)

Communiqué from the Good Government Council “Heart of the Rainbow of Hope”

By The Good Government Council
Enlace Zapatista

February 26, 2007

Greece: After an eight week struggle, the movement is still on…

04-03-2007 19:45 | Culture | Education | Social Struggles | World

It has, already, been eight weeks since the world of education in Greece has been struggling. Today we can count up to 280 occupied faculties out of the 420, six national mobilizations in Athens and six decentralized, a few occupations of secondary schools, a three week strike by university personnel and three days of nation-wide strike in several sectors of the industry

Solidarity Request - Crichton Campus Struggle

04-03-2007 18:18 | Education | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Glasgow University IWW Job Branch and the Save Crichton Campus campaign in Glasgow are calling another phone lobby on the success of last week's event, which saw the University implement a telephone protocol for complaints about Crichton and lay on extra staff to deal with the volume of calls.

Copenhagen, saturday afternoon:Big demo in support of Ungdomshuset

03-03-2007 21:24 | Free Spaces | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Saturday afternoon, the 3. March 2007, a big demonstration with around 2.000 participants draw from the square in front of the City Hall to Nørrebro to express their support to the fight for Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen.
They were all there : The black dressed and the punks, mothers with prams and the eternal vagabonds, mature women with handbags and powder on their cheeks and old veterans with silver in the hair.

Denmark: Copenhagen is burning

03-03-2007 18:39 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

Tonight riots in Kopenhagen became extreme. Burning barricades were built all over the city. Several black outs caused chaos in Copenhagen - actvists had cut off electricity cables. Swedish police supports the Danish state.

Solidarity action in many european countries.

AUSTRALIA: NSW: Mardi Gras 2007

03-03-2007 00:17 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Love Justice for David Hicks we know you're part of the crowd. Thanks!

Rural Workers in Uruguay occupy land and call for solidarity

02-03-2007 19:34 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

On January 14 of this year, Mandiy� � a group of small dairy farmers � occupied a 388 hectare section of the Eduardo Acevedo Estate in the area of Bella Uni�n, in the north of Uruguay. This is the second land occupation in the country, following the group of �peludos� (sugar cane workers) in their occupation one year ago of another 32 hectares that had been abandoned for more than ten years.

1. Day after eviction of Ungdomshuset - TIMELINE

02-03-2007 17:30 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

The day after the eviction of Ungdomshuset and the following demonstrations, barricades and riots in Copenhagen, the police is expecting more troubles. Activists are meeting tonight and a few happenings are taking place around town. Things have been planned for tonight and the fight is obviously not over yet! A lot of people have now been detained for 14 days or more.

On the Ground: Shell to Sea protest, Dublin, 24/02/07 - video and report

02-03-2007 12:42 | Rossport Solidarity | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

Leaving Bellanaboy Gas Terminal construction site at 7.30am, Saturday 24 February, we traveled out of Mayo.

Call for International Anti-G8 Demo in Rostock, June 2

02-03-2007 11:20 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

The following is a call for an international demonstration against the 2007 G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, to be held in Rostock on Saturday 2 June, 2007. To sign up to support the Call, goto: www.heiligendamm2007.de

And remember to stick around for other actions and events throughout the week! See: www.g8-2007.de and www.block-g8.org

'Block G8' call for mass blockades of the G8

02-03-2007 11:15 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

The following call for mass blockades of the G8 summit has been published by a broad coalition of groups, from anti-fascists to non-violent action groups, BUNDjugend (the German Friends of the Earth youth organisation) to radical-left networks, socialist youth organisations to the Green Party Youth Steering Committee, trade union organisations to christian organisations, libertarian theologists to activsts from attac... More groups are being invited to sign up. Do so here: www.block-g8.org

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