World Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

After 11 months illegal imprisonment, David Venegas Reyes 'El Alebrije' has been released.

In a major step for the U.S. labor movement, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has announced that it will shut down West Coast ports on May 1, to demand an immediate end to the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East. This is the first time in decades that an American union has decided to undertake industrial action against a U.S. war. The action announced by the powerful West Coast dock workers union, to stop work to stop the war, should be taken up by unions and labor organizations throughout the United States and internationally. And the purpose of such actions should be not to beg the bourgeois politicians whose hands are covered with blood, having voted for every war budget for six and a half years, but a show of strength of the working people who make this country run, and who can shut it down!

On February 25, the Port, Shipyard, Ship Construction and Repair Workers Trade Union (Limter-Is) called for a 24-hour strike from February 27 in order to protest against the appalling safety and working conditions at the Istanbul, Tuzla shipyards.

At the video platform now a mobilization clip for the Revolutionary 1st of May 2008 in Berlin-Kreuzberg is puplished. Will there be also a virtual riot like in the last year at the second-life newBerlin at first of may?

Pics from the corporate pirates' tour of the capital on the 'Hands Off Iraqi Oil' International Day of Action, Saturday 23 February 2008. They were protesting against the multinational oil companies' ongoing attempts to profit from the occupation and death of an estimated million people in Iraq by plundering the country's oil resources; a move strongly opposed by the Iraqi oil workers' unions and general populace.

The 90 minutes video documentation about 20 years resistance at revolutionary 1st of may in berlin-kreuzberg (germany) is available in english now and for free.

reclaim mayday

In no way will we be able to break the hold of corporations until we all ALL growing food and performing useful trades.

This article gives some of the background of the current US imperial quagmire from an autonomous class war perspective.

Each country has got its own Berlusconis, Blairs, Bushes or Popes. It is a kind of globalization thing and Blair may seem to have exaggerated recently in France whilst speaking about the current political situation. In reality he was just making another of his speeches on the "third-way" and that which he has really not been able to do; bring peace. Instead he has been able only to open discontent, the consequences of which he has sought to manage with repressive laws.

Has the Blair era been a soft-dictatorship?

When its owners abandoned the Junin Clinic in 2002, its workers occupied and reopened this community health centre in Cordoba, Argentina. They have been fighting ever since to provide affordable health care for all. As their struggle with the state and the private owners of the clinic continues into its 6th year, they are now appealing for messages of solidarity from supporters around the world.

Reported today, just about everywhere, Metronet lenders will be repaid £1.7 Billion from the taxpayer.

Labour rights activists from around the world are calling for support in securing the release of Mehedi Hasan, a field investigator for the Washington D.C.-based Worker Rights Consortium, who was arrested on Thursday 24th January by the Bangladesh security forces.

The Iraq Solidarity Campaign would like to congratulate the efforts of The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI), whose Baiji Branch has been providing substantial humanitarian and fuel assistance to the needy and displaced, including 600 families living in the area.

There is a Foie Gras demo this evening at 5pm meet at Holborn tube. We will be demonstrtaing at a restaraunt.....we ahve placards. Bring anything noisy.
Re : today's police demo....maybe I missed something.....but where was everyone?
And to the bunch of cunts who did absolutely NOTHING when a {non cop} protester was grabbed by police, you should be ashamed of yourselves. Other than that incident which didn't result in arrest and getting an eansy weansy minor shove myself {I think it was a "man" thing...} it went off peacefully so far....looking foward to seeing the pics of the spoof police stall....well done to you!!

Partisan Defence Committee Fact Sheet

Murdered by Mumia: Big Lies in the Service of Legal Lynching

Mumia is Innocent! Free Him Now!

Read the PDC factsheet that debunks the renewed lies of the prosecution and those who want to see Mumia Abu-Jamal, death row class-war political prisoner, revolutionary black journalist, the "Voice of the Voiceless" silenced by legal lynching.

Workers in Paris' 8th district are planning strike action after management announced the loss of 111 jobs.

January 11th, 2008 by jef costello
From: www.libcom.org

January 16th, 2008 by Jef Costello
From: www.libcom.org

Just outside of Paris at the Areva TD factory in Montrouge, 89 striking workers have been occupying and blockading the factory for four days.The movement began after management announced plans to close the factory, which produces electrical transformers. Workers are demanding large compensation payments, management is currently refusing to negotiate.

Germany, Berlin. On Sunnday 80 000 people marched on the streets of Berlin to the cemetary of the socialists in Friedrichsfelde where Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the founders of the German Communist Party (KPD) are burried.

In the town of Zrenjanin, in Serbia, an interesting development is happening following a long term struggle of the Jugoremedija factory which following occupations and direct actions is now under self managment. Two other factories in the town have now followed suit and the workers have started occupying their workplaces. These are rare but inspiring examples of resistance to the devastations of privatisation and the tentacles of neo liberalism in the east. Below is a letter of support.