World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

There is no such thing as an Indonesian anti-corruption body

29-11-2005 22:09 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

I'm looking in the space. This time, this void. I'm making my way through the muddy minutes. The pull is in my muscle. The ache is in my bones. It's hard to be alone.

SANTA TWINS SAY “NO TO I.D. CARDS!”

Sunday 20th November 2005 6pm Liverpool City Centre – Christmas Light switch on.

The Santa twins from Liverpool Defy-ID showed their banner and gave out anti-ID leaflets to the public watching the switch on of Liverpool’s Christmas lights. While walking through town the Santa twins were regularly stopped by parents and kiddies asking to speak to the Santa twins.

Parents mortgaged home for Indonesian injustice

27-11-2005 20:17 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Asked about allegations that bribes were paid to reduce her sentence, he said yesterday: "They are issues that go to the heart of this problem and we are not prepared to talk about them at this point. It's something for Michelle to talk about when she is ready."

Longing for the North

25-11-2005 16:55 | Social Struggles | World

Finland has the highest productivity in the EU and the lowest rich-poor differential. Inequality is not a panacea. According to a 2004 European Commission study, the Scandinavian model is the best protection against increasing income differences and poverty rates.

The Dark Political Alleys of Torture

25-11-2005 12:03 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

What makes me worthy not to be tortured in some CIA prison, if I will not stand vehemently opposed to such evil? Will I stand up when it is too late?

Countryside Properties: Yesterday in Parliament-and on the streets of rochdale

23-11-2005 23:04 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

Yesterday, Save Spodden Valley campaigners accompanied by reporters from Granada TV, BBC’s TV North West Tonight, Channel M, BBC GMR and the Manchester Evening News, watched as the first wagons took away asbestos factory rubble from the Spodden Valley site.

Countryside Properties: Contamination blues...

23-11-2005 22:47 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

Last night at Rochdale Town Hall, a packed public audience cheered as the Township planning committee rejected a Countryside Properties (Northern) Ltd application to build 186 homes on the site of a former Tannery, Bleach and Dye works at Greenbooth, Norden.

The Terrorism Act 2000 and the Criminalisation of Dissent

If the UK's Terrorism Act of 2000 existed in 1940, Europe would still be occupied by the Nazis

MUHAMMAD HAQUE POLITICAL POETRY on the 'debate on policing'

19-11-2005 10:55 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London | World

The call for arming the UK police as uttered by Michael Winner is not a contribution to the alleged debate on the future of policing in this country. Evidence must be sought and established BY ALL OF SOCIETY before any fundamental changes are made for the worse

On the rape of a Filipina committed by 6 US marines

19-11-2005 04:45 | Anti-militarism | Gender | Social Struggles | World

We demand that the Philippine Government pursue all means necessary to immediately prosecute the six U.S. servicemen charged with raping a Filipino woman in Olongapo City. The Philippine government should do no less. The government owes it to all Filipino women.

- Laban ng Masa - Pinay (Fight of the Masses/ Filipino Women's groups)

Rumsfeld: Adelaide (Update)

19-11-2005 02:50 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Activists asserted their democratic right to protest Rumsfeld’s visit outside the heavily guarded Adelaide Town Hall regardless of Dr. Bob Such granting ‘permission’ to protest outside South Australia’s Parliament House. Let’s not miss a ‘subtle’ point; the right to protest is fundamental to a democratic society, let that right act as a barometer in any society that purports to uphold democratic values.

Vidéo: "There is no poverty in France"

19-11-2005 00:55 | Culture | Migration | Social Struggles | World

In an exclusive interview given for a broadcast on US-american TV channel "Capitol One", Patrick Balkany, deputy-major of Paris suburb Levallois-Perret, explains the situation in French suburbs just before the uprisings. He said: "There is no poverty in France. (...) The poor live very well."

Download the video of the interview from the samizdat site

Spodden Valley asbestos: Tony Blair lost for words...

19-11-2005 00:00 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

At Prime Minister's Question Time, Tony Blair was asked if he could guarantee that the Environment Agency and Health & Safety Executive (HSE) can protect the public against asbestos from the Spodden Valley

The Prime Minister replied:
"I am looking around the Chamber, but I am afraid I am not getting a great deal of help. [Laughter.] "

The Save Spodden Valley campaign explains why this is no laughing matter...

CKUT: An Hour with Noam Chomsky

18-11-2005 16:46 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

CKUT Radio in Montreal special presentation: "An Hour with Noam Chomsky" (Audio link)

Anarchists and the Caracas ASF/January 2006

17-11-2005 23:45 | Free Spaces | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

* The Venezuelan anarchist movement invites you to participate in the Alternative Social Forum at Caracas in January 2006, a gathering of anti-establishment social movements, in response to the bureaucratic World Social Forum promoted by the Venezuelan government.

Call To Action: WTO Ministerial (Hong Kong 14-18 Dec 05)

17-11-2005 18:02 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Call for action against the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial Conference (14 -18 December 2005)

*10 years of WTO 10 years of plunder and destruction*

Rumsfeld in Adelaide

US Secretary of Defence, Zionist and neo-con extraordinaire, Donald Rumsfeld, will visit Adelaide (of all places) to hold discussions with servile Australian politicians regarding Australia’s continuing involvement with the pariah nation of the world, the USA. Rumsfeld’s visit is timely, it coincides with nationwide dissent and protest against IR and draconian anti-terrorist laws recently implemented by leading US lackey and coward extraordinaire, John Howard.

MUHAMMAD HAQUE POLITICAL POETRY JUST BEFORE THE DILMBLEBY LECTURE on Policing

16-11-2005 20:44 | Repression | Social Struggles | London | World

"The alleged interest in a free debate on the future of policing in the UK has already been distorted by diversionary bias against a free debate.

Iran may have executed two more gays...

16-11-2005 16:18 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

News has been released that Iran may have executed two more young gay men.

World's forgotten mothers wants UN's help.

16-11-2005 08:48 | Social Struggles | World

After fifteen years in exile the Bhutanese government has shown no real efforts to repatriate its citizens. We continue to remain in the refugee camps where the situation is increasingly degrading due to the prolonged waiting and the drastic cuts in the supply of the basic facilities has further worsened the condition of the people. The education sector has not been able to maintain the quality of education supposedly due to the financial constraints. The sudden halt of supplying panel roofs and green vegetables and the repeated announcement made by the funding agencies to further cut of the essential items such as kerosene and other items has frustrated us. At the same time, the sufferings of the people inside the country under the despotic rule of the present government are equally being left unheard and unnoticed by the world community.