World Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

An autonomous group of direct action activists have launched Target: WTO | Derail, Dismantle, Destroy as activists across Hong Kong, Asia, and around the world unite to destroy WTO for once and for all.

Whose Trade Organization is it?
" It is not and has never been an institution that had the betterment of the working peoples' welfare as its agenda..." WTO disputed in Philippine Congress. (Dec 6)
Resist! Spokesperson and Bayan Muna Representative Teddy Casino today questioned in Congress the Philippines' continuing membership in the the World Trade Organization (WTO). "The W TO is not by any stretch of the imagination an estbalished or elected government; but from the way it conduct itself, it has become the most powerful pseudo-legislative and judicial body in the world," he said.

On November 19, solidarity groups from all over Germany that support the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela gathered in Berlin’s Humboldt University. The meeting discussed building a solidarity movement able to prevent a bloody coup like the one that occurred in Chile in 1973.

Pensions in this country

Indymedia UK are currently getting reports of 2000 riot police and an unspecified army presence outside of a squat held by 500 people, mostly poor indigenous families, in Cauca, Colombia. Over the past few days, 1 person has been killed and 37 people have been injured by police beatings and bullets. The situation is tense and they are calling for solidarity emails, letter-writing and publicity because they are worried that without this the police and army will attack.

Guambianos, Kokonuko and Nasa indigenous people, as well as thousands of peasants that are demanding land, have occupied haciendas (a hacienda is a huge piece of rural property) in several parts of Cauca since the 12th of October.

They are protesting because the INCODER (Colombian Institute for Rural Development) is not given funds or legal power to achieve rural reform, in Cauca or in the rest of the country.

Despite being heavily tear-gassed and losing one boy (Belisario Camayo Huetoto, 16) dead to police bullets, the families on the occupied land are calling for letters, phone calls, emails, and faxes to the Colombian Embassy to make it politically more difficult for the government to allow the police and army to attack the settlement.

Communications can be addressed to:

The Embassy of Colombia
3 Hans Crescent
London
Sw1x Olr
UK

Telephone: 009 44 171 5899177
Fax: 009 44 171 5811529

Since unemployment has reached an unparalleled dimension under the combination of enormously increased productivity, global wage dumping, weakened unions and non-existent system competition, I prefer unparalleled solutions: a radical redistribution of work and income.

This is a 920 word article about a talk given by freelance journalist and activist Ewa Jasiewicz at Glasgow's Caledonian University recently. 9 labelled photos and several relevant websites are attached.

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HURRICANE STAN SEVERLY AFFECTS THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES OF CIPO-RFM
WE ARE PUTTING OUT AN URGENT CALL FOR HELP TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES IN STRUGGLE, HARMED BY HURRICANE STAN. WAYS TO HELP ARE THE FOLLOWING:

the continuation of the dispute and its lessons

Hacemos un llamado urgente de solidaridad internacionalista con los trabajadores del Colegio de Bachilleres (CB) de México que estamos llevando adelante una decidida lucha contra la violación al contrato colectivo de trabajo y por mejoras en las condiciones laborales.

The Shape of Things To Come

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S.O.S. to the British friends of the Planet, Justice and Freedom.
We need urgent solidarity! real direct and pacific actions! in order to survive and have the chance of dreaming a better world...

Video from the dynamic reaction by anarchists against the harsh greek government's policies, especially in relation to the economy, employment and suppression of personal rights and liberties.

Filipino protesters and unionists from Gelmart Industries, the country's top garment exporter, clash with police at the Department of Labor and Employment office in Manila August 15, 2005. Protesters condemned the Labor Secretary and the Gelmart management for failing to meet the demands of employees.

96 Workers from Rolls Royce’s engine test facility at Patchwood in England went on idefinite official stike today. They are supporting sacked Amicus Trades Union official Jerry Hicks. This strike could mark a reversal by workers and Unions of 25 years worth of defeats under new-liberalim.

Please help if you can. US Anti-Terror squads detain Animal Rights/Trades Union/Socialist Activists in New Jersey Raid. More Raids feared.

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Protestors picketed Starbucks in Edinburgh’s High Street for three and a half hours on Saturday 20th November. Demonstrators served up free zapatista coffee, proclaiming solidarity with the rebel indigenous movement in Mexico and with New York Starbucks workers in dispute with the coffee giant. The action was jointly organised by Edinburgh Branch Industrial Workers of the World and Edinburgh-Chiapas Solidarity Group.