World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Moving Building Meeting London 11 Dec

07-11-2010 22:57 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

Liberation: Beyond Resistance
Building a People's Assemblies Movement
Saturday 11th December 1-5pm
Birkbeck College

IDS’ Same Old Deal on Benefit Reform Will Punish The Sick

07-11-2010 19:44 | Health | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | World

Baldyman must have had to think extra hard about his new ‘radical’ proposals for people on Jobseekers Allowance, aka the dole. It seems that he thought all the way back to 1997 when new Labour launched the New Deal (1), which including mandatory 30 hour a week activity for the long term unemployed.

KCC-private health at taxpayer expense

Kent County Council bosses 'enjoy' private healthcare at the expense of taxpayers. Meanwhile social care for the elderly gets cuts
(Just how 'sick' can you get? Oh, now the jobless must be made serfs doing manual 'work' for free and taking jobs from street cleaners/gardeners/ etc etc...)

Fake anti-war activism. The “humanitarian road” towards an all out nuclear war?

While the danger of an all out war on Iran is a matter of concern, it is by no means a priority for the US, Canadian and European antiwar movements. In the US, there are very few antiwar events focussing on US-Israeli threats directed against Iran. Many in the antiwar movement, while condemning the US, continue to believe that Iran constitutes a threat and that the solution is "regime change". The funding of NGOs (which are constituent members of major antiwar collectives) by corporate tax exempt charities and foundations, has also contributed to weakening the stance of antiwar activism in relation to Iran.

25,000 students march in Ireland

05-11-2010 17:00 | Education | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | World

Upwards of 25,000 students from across Ireland descended onto the streets of Dublin on Wednesday, 2,000 students broke off and occupied the Department of Finance, here are 2 interviews with students present.

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Hope for Bhopal?

05-11-2010 09:39 | Social Struggles | World

President Obama arrives in India tomorrow 6 November.

The people of Bhopal are asking that the President meets with them to discuss on the ongoing contamination in Bhopal, 26 years after, the Bhopal disaster took place.

People are still being poisoned TODAY. Obama held BP accountable, now hold Dow accountable.

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Simon Kirby Mp asked for public enquiry in to Policing in Sussex

05-11-2010 01:51 | Repression | Social Struggles | South Coast | World

SUSSEX MURDER WITNESS MAKES A STAND OVER SUSSEX POLICE CORRUPTION

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Dublin kicks off, UK crap... as usual

03-11-2010 19:08 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

"Students occupy Dept of Finance in Dublin
News is coming in that upwards of thirty students have occupied the Department of Finance in the center of Dublin with several hundred supporting them in the streets outside. Tens of thousands of students are demonstrating as part of the USI protests against plans to introduce fees, these students carrying out the occupation appear to have broken away from the main demonstration which is taking place around the corner in Merrion square."

repost from Irish indymedia

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ME Sufferers banned from giving blood

03-11-2010 18:03 | Health | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Banning Blood is Not Enough!

ME sufferers are now banned from blood donation but are the only group banned who receive no medical treatment for their condition. They say that the ban is due to a new Retrovirus discovered in their blood.

Sweatshop Manufacturing: Engine of Poverty

03-11-2010 18:02 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

"Inequality has reached such an astounding level that it requires an act of willful blindness on the part of Western media not to notice it. Over half of the world’s population subsists on less than $2 a day, while the 200 richest individuals own more wealth than 41 percent of the world’s population, or in other words, more than 2.6 billion people. Such an extreme concentration of wealth in the hands of the few cannot be construed as a failure of global capitalism. Indeed, it is a mark of its success, for this is what the system is designed to do."

PHILIPPINES: PAL labor row erupts anew as workers protest DOLE decision

02-11-2010 11:31 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The labor row at Philippine Airlines (PAL) flares up once more at the start of the airline peak season with its workers starting today a series of protest actions against the recent decision of Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz to allow the mass layoff of some 3,000 workers. At 10:00 a.m. today dozens of members of the Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA), the ground crew union at PAL, held a symbolic protest at the main office of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Intramuros, Manila.

Screening of Sanjay Kak's 'Jashn-e-Azadi' on Kashmir + film-maker QnA

31-10-2010 11:33 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

An event for discussing the contemporary dispute in Kashmir.

America threatens Iran: The anti-war movement's trojan horse

After a period in which defending Iran hasn't been very high on the agenda of most U.S. anti-war activists, there are now two petition campaigns opposing war and sanctions against Iran.

One effort is led by a New York City-based organization more known for defending Cuban “dissidents” who openly take U.S. money to try to undermine the Cuban Revolution. The other was launched by an independent Tehran-based organization formed to promote Iranian solidarity with Cuba, Venezuela and other progressive countries in Latin America.

Curiously, it's the first campaign that seems to be getting the most support.

Simon Kirby Mp ask for help by murder wittness living in fear

30-10-2010 20:39 | Social Struggles | South Coast | World

Chief wittness in Katrina Taylor murder David JOE Neilson has ask Simon Kirby mp to expose Sussex Police cover up of Katrina Taylor murder. Mr Neilson told iINFORMER22 that he lives in fear of Sussex Police see

http://www.myspace.com/479111501

Trident is Cancer - Cut It Out

Latest Press Release from Trident Ploughshares about blockade of Devonport Dockyard.

Clive Bloom at Cowley

Clive Bloom talks about the updated edition of 'Violent London'

12th annual protest against deaths in custody - Saturday 27 October

UFFC Annual march against custody deaths and abuses

Saturday 30th October 2010

Assemble Trafalgar Square 12 noon.

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Violations of Workers Rights in the Philippines in 2010

29-10-2010 12:53 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Aside from the worst forms of labor repression such as the killings of union leaders and members that are well documented by human rights groups, workers in the Philippines suffer from a host of other violations of internationally recognized and constitutionally protected rights and freedoms.

Devonport Blockade - Press Release

Press Release for the forthcoming blockade of Devonport Dockyard by anti-nuclear campaigners.

Home Office stop-and-search figures hide evidence of systematic discrimination

Massoud Shadjareh, the Chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, said today that the Home Office’s latest figures on numbers of people stopped and searched under anti-terrorism legislation fail to give the full picture when it comes to Muslim concerns about the discriminatory use of the powers to target Muslims in particular.