World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Free the Jena Six, Stop the War on African People

28-09-2007 02:03 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

This last week, thousands of people converged on the small town of Jena, Louisiana to show support for the six African teenagers who face felony charges following a series of attacks by a hostile white school and criminal justice system.

Large turnout at Burmese and Chinese embassies in London

Large numbers of protesters rallied outside the Burmese embassy, before marching to the Chinese embassy to demand China's support for the pro-democracy uprising in Burma.

South African leader tours U.S.; says conditions worse than apartheid

25-09-2007 23:36 | Other Press | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) tour exposes ongoing South African oppression and poverty under Mbeki and Mandela; conditions for most South Africans today - "Worse than Apartheid!"

Peter Hain may still make Gordon Brown come unstuck - 'let us all down'!

25-09-2007 10:12 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | London | World

The Guardian reported on Monday [24.09.2007] as follows:-

'Unions and charities are furious that Mr Hain has handed over the lion's share of the first tranche of privatised services to the Ingeus group under a deal which will not include union recognition and will not safeguard jobs on the same conditions as in Whitehall...'

Screening of Documentaries and Video activism in Caracas, Jan 2008

25-09-2007 09:56 | Culture | Social Struggles | London | World

Film and video activist screenings in Caracas, Jan 2008

Critical Mass and Carfree day in Brussels

24-09-2007 13:20 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

Friday saw an early Critical Mass and Sunday was the day of the cyclist as all cars were banished from the streets of Brussels for the day.

Monks & Nuns Get Militant

23-09-2007 13:42 | Social Struggles | World

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The BBC and 'others' 'war' on George Galloway - a Bethnal Green commentary-1

23-09-2007 11:51 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | London | World

By©Muhammad Haque
1150 GMT
London Sunday 23 September 2007

Last Friday's edition of the BBC2 programme 'NEWSNIGHT' promoted the voters-rejected candidate Oona King as if she had just come back from climbing Mount Everest! As had the Andrew Neill-fronted 'THIS WEEK' slot the previous night shown on BBC1. There is such an acceptance of this token of 'multiple ethnicities and affiliations' being flaunted on all the mainstream media channels that the ordinary people face a serious risk of being almost told that defeat at an election in Britain no longer means that.

Venezuela today: complexities and outright lies

23-09-2007 00:06 | Analysis | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

* A member of the editorial collective of El Libertario (www.nodo50.org/ellibertario; in Spanish & English) prepared this article for the 6th edition of the Costa Rican (A) journal La Libertad [September 2007;

http://revistalalibertad.blogspot.com] in response to an inconsistent effort to establish impossible affinities between Chavism and Anarchism.

Crossrail- latest costs deadlock is symptomatic of the spin rail. Scrap it

22-09-2007 12:37 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | London | World

UK Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly has given a publicly stated deadline of next Tuesday by when the City of London and Big Business interests should come up with 'real money'. She has been reported to have asked to see the colour of the Big Business money. This impasse has been
painted in the pro-Crossrail Big Business media including the Financial Times and by the USA outlet Bloomberg as an unfair demand on the conglomerates. They are citing this demand as evidence of sloppy and unrealistic thinking on the part of Gordon Brown's administration. This is not so. The problem lies with the sloppiness and the lack of merit in the present Crossrail plan itself.

Poland stopped to be a democratic country

22-09-2007 09:38 | Social Struggles | World

Fake elections are being prepared. Independent observers are not allowed to supervise them.

Thousands Protest racial injustice in US South

21-09-2007 23:02 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Racial tensions first erupted after a black student tried to cross an invisible color line and sit under the schoolyard's "white tree" to be greeted the next morning by nooses hanging from the tree.

Zionists propoganda program for the new year

20-09-2007 11:20 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London | World

The Zionist Federation in the UK is mobalising for a massive PR offensive next year with a program of events aimed at making the terms zionism and jewish synonymous and strengthening their lobbying power. .

Altab Ali station -call to name Aldgate East after martyr

The naming of the Aldgate East tube station after the martyr Altab Ali is the aim of a campaign in the East End of London which is gaining support from people from all waks of life

The Future of Work-driven Society

19-09-2007 10:30 | Social Struggles | World

When less and less time needs to be spent working for a living in Western industrialised countries, this partial freedom of gainful occupation is increasingly becoming a problem for those dismissed. The vision of working less and living longer is a utopia that is also realistic.

Philippine Protest Marks The First Senate Hearing On The JPEPA

14 September 2007, Manila, Philippines. – A crowd of more than 300 workers, farmers, fishers, and environmentalists from the Magkaisa Junk JPEPA Coalition (MJJC) today called on the Senators of the 14th Congress to look beyond the rosy projections and government hype surrounding the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), and to carefully assess its short-term and long-term implications. The group’s call came on the day of the first scheduled Senate hearing for this historic, precedent-setting treaty.

Rossport Solidarity Demo in Madrid

15-09-2007 18:52 | Rossport Solidarity | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

madrid rossport solidarity demo

Beware if the Irish Residential Institutions Redress Board.

14-09-2007 23:17 | Social Struggles | World

Might Australia take on a Redress System like the Draconian Irish Board? I hope not.

Palestinian Child Political Prisoners

14-09-2007 22:07 | Palestine | Social Struggles | World

The arrest, interrogation and imprisonment of Palestinian children in the West Bank by Israeli military forces, police officers and other Israeli security personnel, is not a new phenomenon. Israel has been continuously arresting and prosecuting children since its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967.