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London bus drivers demonstration 24/7/08

24-07-2008 21:43 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | London | World

London bus drivers march to city hall demanding pay parity among the private companies who run London's buses.

France: Immigrants strike for the right to work

22-07-2008 14:32 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

“They work here, they live here, they stay here!”
French immigrants strike for the right to work—and win.
By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly

Class struggle, not the market, to save the planet

A political economist and activist who directs the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, Patrick Bond was a featured guest speaker at the Green Left Weekly Social Change — Climate Change conference (

http://www.greenleft.org.au/conference.php ) held in Sydney in April.

Author of a range of books, including Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society, Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation, and Walk left, Talk Right: South Africa’s Frustrated Global Reforms, Bond is a long-time advocate for radical solutions to the climate and social catastrophe wraught by global capitalism.

Lauren Carroll Harris spoke to Bond at the conference about responses to climate change.

French sans-papiers occupation : two months !

10-07-2008 08:56 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

French undocumented immigrants, workers but isolated, begun the occupation of the Center of the Unions in Paris two months ago !

PDC film showing: Free Mumia Abu-Jamal now! Today at 5pm

Partisan Defence Committee film showing - today at 5pm (including time for discussion)

Watch the Partisan Defence Committee DVD 'From Death Row, This is Mumia Abu-Jamal'

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal now!
Abolish the racist death penalty!

5 pm, Saturday 5 July 2008

Birkbeck College, Room 407, Malet Street, London WC1
Nearest Tube: Russell Sq or Goodge St

Support Sacked Starbucks Baristas

26-06-2008 19:28 | Workers' Movements | London | World

There will be a SOLIDARITY PICKET of STARBUCKS, New Oxford St, London (nearest tube Tottenham Court Rd) On SATURDAY 5th JULY at 1pm

Blonde ambitions

22-06-2008 23:07 | Education | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The university league tables media frenzy tells us a little bit more about the deep interrelations of interests amongst academia and students, as well as a little bit more on the state of the democratic environment of the universities in the UK and finally refers us to the many associations which should keep an eye on standards and academic freedom in the UK.

All diamonds are still blood diamonds

22-06-2008 16:58 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The movie, the celebrities and the publicity have come and gone. Now the conditions for the people of Sierra Leone are worse than ever. The popular Africanist Movement is struggling to change that.

Repression and Revolt in the run up to G8 Japan

Over the past week and a half, an unprecedented political crackdown has been enacted in advance of a series of economic summits around the country. Despite this, the brave workers of Kamagasaki stood up against the stiff security environment in riots against the brutal beating of a day laborer over the past five days. The twin situations of repression and revolt deserve to be examined in more detail.

Osaka Riots A Personal Account

16-06-2008 16:31 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

This is one persons account of the riots in Osaka, the time they are talking about is Friday 13th the day of the G8 Finance Ministers meeting.

Update on Riots in Osaka, Japan with Photos

Here is an update on the situation happening in Osaka, Sunday 15th June.

Rioting in Osaka Japan

15-06-2008 04:19 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Riots erupted this weekend in Osaka as a result of a day labourer being arrested, after an argument over food he paid for and did not receive. When he was taken into custody he was tied to a chair and subjected to brutal beatings by 4 police.

Evo Morales, president of Bolivia on the Return Directive

No to the European Union's "Return Directive", please read Evo Morales letter to EU and sign.

US,Russian or Chinese military EMF kills dolphins

Many smaller fish etc just die & float to the bottom, we are probably only seeing just the surface of this "hitech" assault on nature.
"In a paper published in Nature magazine, scientists from a British Government-funded research programme show the first evidence of gas bubbles and associated tissue trauma in six dolphins, a porpoise and a beaked whale recovered from British waters."

Whats Ken Clarke MP&"democratic representative doing at private Bilderberg 2008?

07-06-2008 16:42 | Globalisation | Workers' Movements | World

What is Kenneth Clarke MP for Rushcliffe borough doing currently at the Bilderberg AGM in Virginia? ex British Ameritcan Tobacco executive.More powerful than G8& Held in private & until recently top secrecy Bilderberg& Trilateral meetings are steered by David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger& Brezezinski.He is accomponied from UK by Lord John Kerr. Member, House of Lords; Deputy Chairman Royal Dutch Shell plc. Bilderberger's arent nazis, most need psychiatric monitoring& are dangerous psychopath's
Its time to stop the war& Reclaim our Planet from them crazy bilderballs,
nows the time, virginians take to the streets & protest!

Sierra Leone Movement Under Attack!

06-06-2008 19:20 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Slanderous news media has appeared in a government linked newspaper and a campaign of rumors has been initiated, obviously designed to undermine and isolate the Africanist Movement and its director, Chernoh Alpha M. Bah. Sierra Leone’s neocolonial government is apparently moving to criminalize the Africanist Movement in order to justify jailing and/or otherwise destroying these courageous leaders of our struggle for African self-determination.

Ending near for Nepal monarchy (by Latuff)

28-05-2008 12:31 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

To be published in "Aristera" Communist paper in Greece:

http://www.koel.gr/

High resolution version for printing purposes here:

http://ia311332.us.archive.org/2/items/EndingNearForNepalMonarchy/Nepal.gif

Memories of “Popular Power” in Venezuela’s economy

23-05-2008 21:43 | Analysis | Globalisation | Workers' Movements | World

* From false co-management and cooperatives to the deceitful EPS, we present a balance of what has happened in Venezuela after at least 7 years of pretending to build a socialist economy, where the available data and verifiable facts belie the failure of the Chavez administration.

HFE safe science or GM, eugenics, cloning& chimera bill?

22-05-2008 07:00 | Bio-technology | Health | Workers' Movements | World

pluripotent stem cell research is there & placentas can be used to grow more stem cells for cures combined with natural cures why is there a need for opening the door to growing half human half dog embyros?
What do they want besides spair body parts?. This bill has not gone fully through parliament so write to your MP,regional minister & MEP,+ Brown & Lord Darzi"health minister"+ Lord Drayson "gm corporate boss science minister.
Do we need a clone or a tortured vivisected chimera army?or spair bodies grown for rich people done by politically correct experimenting,sorry"helping" sick children?

Union Stages MGM Casino Protest at Foxwoods

18-05-2008 21:04 | Repression | Workers' Movements | World

The United Auto Workers gathered near the new MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Ledyard on Saturday to kick off the first of two days of protests against what the union calls an unfair tipping policy and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe's refusal to bargain.

World Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

London bus drivers demonstration 24/7/08

France: Immigrants strike for the right to work

Class struggle, not the market, to save the planet

French sans-papiers occupation : two months !

PDC film showing: Free Mumia Abu-Jamal now! Today at 5pm

Support Sacked Starbucks Baristas

Blonde ambitions

All diamonds are still blood diamonds

Repression and Revolt in the run up to G8 Japan

Osaka Riots A Personal Account

Update on Riots in Osaka, Japan with Photos

Rioting in Osaka Japan

Evo Morales, president of Bolivia on the Return Directive

US,Russian or Chinese military EMF kills dolphins

Whats Ken Clarke MP&"democratic representative doing at private Bilderberg 2008?

Sierra Leone Movement Under Attack!

Ending near for Nepal monarchy (by Latuff)

Memories of “Popular Power” in Venezuela’s economy

HFE safe science or GM, eugenics, cloning& chimera bill?

Union Stages MGM Casino Protest at Foxwoods

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