World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Mayday - Reclaim the Beats

25-03-2015 23:54 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | London | World

Mayday falls on a Friday.

Fuck it all off and come party at a street party like no other.

Photos from anti-Pegida protest outside Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh

15 photos from the demonstration at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to protest against far right group Pegida. The racists failed to make an appearance however and perhaps the far right are on the back foot. It pays to be vigilant though.

Requisites for Building the Socialist Future

22-03-2015 03:29 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

There are five general requisites for building the socialist future. First, learn from the historical experience of the revolutionary proletariat in building socialism in the 20th century.

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Does Met Cop Sir Bernard really care about dealing with Tower Hamlets Crimes?

Sir Bernard, Cllr Rabina Khan, Cllr Ohid Ahmed, Cllr Amy Whitelock and MPs' Home Affairs Cottee Chair Keith Vaz all feature here

Crufts dog Jagger - do ordinary dogs and cats matter 2 vets?

Crufts dog Jagger - do ordinary dogs and cats matter when treated by vets?
The ‘international outcry’ over the reported poisoning of the Crufts dog Jagger
should serve as a most urgent reminder of the need to watch what the vets businesses es actually do about vulnerable helpless animals and their emotionally trapped owners and carers who take them to the vets

Information Commission has stopped monitoring Tower Hamlets Council

Today’s news that the Information Commission has stopped monitoring Tower Hamlets Council after allegedly improving made by that Council on Information Provision will come as news to many.

Cameron's Child Sex Abuse Announcements Tuesday 3 March 2015

Child sex abuse and violence against children in several English local Council areas and David Cameron's highly-publicised stunts staged today

Cameron is attacking poorest pensioners as well

Has anyone noticed that IDS is punishing some Pensioners for asking Qs?

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Curo Housing Bath HQ to hold EMERGENETICS sessions at its INSPIRE 2015 Forum

01-03-2015 11:15 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London | World

Has CURO Housing’s unelected 15 member board authorised the use of its HQ for disseminating this pseudo-scientific/religious ego-building management mumbo-jumbo?

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UG#704 - Legal Restrictions as Fictions (The Deep State's Passion for Big Data)

This time we hear a pair of talks from 31C3 - the latest Chaos Computer Congress - both by insiders with extensive experience on the subject of mass surveillance. First, NSA expert, James Bamford, on the relationships between the NSA and the big telecom companies. Next we hear Caspar Bowden, on the legal basis for the NSA's mass surveillance program, PRISM. Microsoft summarily dismissed him from his job of 9 years as head of privacy after he raised this issue, and he has spent the last 3 years alerting people to the danger ever since. In essence, he says, the deliberately complex legal regulation of data privacy, which he summarised at the very start of the show - gives Europeans no effective rights against NSA surveillance, whilst affording Americans rights against spying by other nations. Although neither speaker seems to have much idea about the deep state, their talks nevertheless provide useful information.

Rotherham - why the New Commissioners are no answer at all -

Rotherham Council is no more; not as an independent, elected local Council serving local people in Rotherham according to democratic standards, aspirations and needs. Rotherham is the latest such Council, to be subjected to Erick Pickles DCLG "intervention". The other Council is London’s Tower Hamlets. There, the number of Commissioners is fewer and their remit less extensive than is shown to be the case on Rotherham. However, the interventions conform the dominant view in Society that local Councils are failing in very serious ways. So what should happen?

DR. Arthur Swenson worlds top economist. On the run after Armed attack

DR. Arthur Swenson worlds top economist. On the run after his latest stock market failure prediction. While Swenson was arriving for a lecture in Warsaw Poland. Automatic gun fire erupted, riddling his Bentley with holes. Swenson recklessly escaped at high speed.

INDONESIA: Shamed by Lack of Gratitude

23-02-2015 00:02 | Anti-racism | Culture | Social Struggles | World

What the Indonesians lack in the areas of humanity, equality and judicial fairness, they more than make up for in sheer audacity. This is not a country short on chutzpah.

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Cycle '48: Remapping the Nakba

Cycle '48 is a collective of 3 British women who cycled to Palestine from the UK. Cycle '48 is an ongoing project remapping erased histories on two wheels. This article highlights the first phase of our project: Cycling from Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem and joining the Jewish National Fund cycle trail from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv in order to uncover the hidden stories on its path and expose the JNF's role in their erasure.

Curo Housing building work stopped by

Corrine Eatwell, Scientific Officer for Contaminated Land Environmental Services at Bath & North East Somerset Council states an investigation and risk assessment into elevated levels of benzo(a)pyrene and arsenic and potential asbestos and radiological contaminants must be completed before any development can take place.

A review of 'Dispatches Against Displacement'

17-02-2015 05:25 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

A work by a prominent San Francisco USA housing activist in a context of ongoing defeat for San Francisco renters.

Philippines: The fate of peace in Mindanao hangs in the balance

14-02-2015 00:22 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

Akbayan statement on the video of killing of injured SAF trooper

Borough of Hatred, Tower Hatred as the news headlines say

The claim that the Metropolitan Police are too close to Lutfur Rahman is revealing

INDONESIA - Death By Firing Squad

08-02-2015 08:43 | Culture | Social Struggles | World

Execution by firing squad is the common capital punishment method used in Indonesia for a number of crimes including drug trafficking. The barbaric and cruel method has remained unchanged since 1964.