World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

The Saturday riot in Rostock (1)

So, at the end of the demo there was a riot. Which has now been widely reported by the corporate media as being deliberately provoked by tooled up agitators in Black. Change the word black for green and you start getting a bit closer to the truth.

Rostock Saturday. The international demo.

03-06-2007 16:32 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

The march moves at a snails pace due to the samba bands and sound systems that are dotted along the route. No one seems to mine as it has a carnival atmosphere and there is still no sign of the predicted rain

Rostock Saturday

03-06-2007 16:11 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

The march was meeting at two points the IMC UK crew nominated the main station as our meeting point as the route was shorter and therefore kinder to our feet. Despite the weather reports it was cloudy but no rain.

The Controversial Burma Debate

03-06-2007 11:07 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

With the review of Burma’s democratic figurehead for the National League for Democracy (NLD), Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest having passed on the 27th May this year and her freedom denied her, Cat McGovern and Paul Gourdon have carried out some extensive research into one of the main areas concerning her drive for democracy, namely the pros and cons of tourism to Burma.

Aussies blockade cyanide train

03-06-2007 10:39 | Health | Social Struggles | World

A handful of Australian activists claim victory in their blockade of a train carrying deadly cyanide

Pics from Anti-G8 demonstration in Rostock

02-06-2007 18:58 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Another attempt of putting up the pictures.

Pictures of Rostock Demo and Convergence Centre

02-06-2007 18:47 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Short report since the arrival.

Solidarity needed; Rigaer Strasse 84- Berlin

01-06-2007 15:46 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Rigaer strasse 84, a housing project in Berlin-living place for 48 people,a
space for international guests, public cooking space, cinema, free space
for politcal groups, concert space, and a bar.

Get the G8 off Africa’s back

Article by the education charity WORLDwrite examining prevailing attitudes on the ability of Africans to self govern and develop their economic and social potential. Explores poverty eradication & poverty reduction along with what debt relief really means in Ghana.

Includes comments by Ghanian Academics Professor Akilagpa Sawyerr and Dr. Yao Graham of Third World Network Africa.

G8; Call for Global Infopoint Network

31-05-2007 14:49 | G8 Germany 2007 | Indymedia | Social Struggles | World

In conjunction to the alternative media material that has already started coming out of Germany about whats going on, we want to encourage the setting up of a network of nodal infopoints outside of the protest area for people in their local area to be able to go to and find out first hand whats going on...Spaces already forming in Berlin, Mataro(Cat), Sao Paulo

Audio: Barcelona and the ongoing attack against the squatted social centres.

31-05-2007 14:43 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

Here there is a 24 minute interview with Emily from Miles de Viviendas squatted social centre, about the local situation in the barrio of Barceloneta, the Barcelona wide situation, the Pirate University project from Miles de Viviendas, and other means of positive creative action for change.
Recorded on May 3- 07

Australia: NSW: Sydney political scapegoats plead not guilty

31-05-2007 03:05 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

At a committal hearing earlier this year, it was alleged that police went on a fishing expedition of a few suburbs to find alleged material you'd pick up at the shops or on the internet.

Protesters target ASEM summit in Hamburg

29-05-2007 04:50 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Thousands of anti-globalisation demonstrators have marched through the centre of the north German city of Hamburg protesting against a meeting of EU and Asian ministers.

Urban Movements at the G8 Action Week 2007 in Rostock

29-05-2007 04:05 | Free Spaces | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Squatters, Tenants and Homeless organizing international solidarity against evictions and real estate violence, housing rights violations, forced evictions, "slum" cleansing, gentrification/ghettoization of popular neighbourhoods, SLUMLORDS, squats, informal settlements..

Riots at EU/Asia economic meeting

We declare war on the leaders of the world...

Make the G8 Precarious! (FelS G8 Call to Action)

Make the G8 Precarious, Flexi-Fight the New World Order
Superfluous and Superheroes of the World: Unite and Take Over!

From 6-8 June, together with thousands of others, as part of the Block G8
campaign, we will cut the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm off from its
infrastructure. The other world – the one we say is possible – will, once
again, be revealed as already here.

Bash The Rich - Toffs Out Ladbroke Grove November 3rd

26-05-2007 19:15 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | London | World

March on David Cameron's house: Against luxury apartments and for affordable housing

Uber Warrior

25-05-2007 10:32 | Globalisation | Other Press | Social Struggles | World

New Uber warfare strategies of the 21st century have relegated conventional war and to a lesser extent guerilla war strategies to history. Today’s ubiquitous and highly accessible computer technologies have redefined warfare. Traditional militaries are facing redundancy, irrelevance and heightened vulnerability from skilled digital operators. The keyboard is proving to be the most effective weapon of the modern age! Uber war is asymmetry taken to its final phase. In theory a single individual is now capable of subverting a State! The digital age has resulted in a universal dependence on digital technology. The most powerful military powers are now exposed to (persistent) direct and indirect digital attacks – it is only a matter of time before a skilled digital warrior succeeds in compromising the defence capability of a superpower.

REEL NEWS is now online!

24-05-2007 18:20 | Other Press | Social Struggles | World

Reel news is a monthly DVD with 90 minute sof reports from the movement in Britain and the rest of the world. Issue number 7 is coming out today with reports from Mayday 2007, Workers memorial day, G8, Mark Thomas' socpa demos, the anti deportation campaigns and some easy listening and gentle visuals from anarcho punks CONFLICT.

The Call

23-05-2007 16:47 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

“The youth are waiting, day after day. They wait for their time; as do the workers, even the old. They all wait, those who are discontented and those who reflect. They are waiting for a force to arise, something they will be part of; a kind of new international that will not make the same mistakes as the previous ones. They wait for a chance to get rid of the past once and for all – for something new to begin.

WE HAVE BEGUN.”