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G20 protests video shows perfect example of police tactics

This video report form Al-Jazeera is a great and objective piece, makes a nice change from the other news sources. Perfect example of the police tactics all day yesterday.

Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees - March 2009

Nine conflict situations around the world deteriorated and two improved in March 2009, according to the new issue of the International Crisis Group’s monthly bulletin CrisisWatch

African Liberation Day events unite worldwide movement of African resistance

01-04-2009 15:44 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

With the theme of “One Africa, One Nation: Separated by Colonial Slavery, Reunited by Revolutionary Resistance!” African Liberation Day events will be held simultaneously in Washington, DC and in Manchester, UK on May 22-24 by the African People’s Socialist Party, which leads the Uhuru Movement. The goal of the events is to build the African Socialist International, the organization working to unite and liberate Africa and African people everywhere.

Stop the Forcible Removal of Jeevitha and Neeraja

Jeevitha and Neeraja, aged 15 and 14 respectively and their mother Neeraja Joseph arrived in the UK in July 2008. The family have fled from Sri Lanka having been caught up in the civil war that has beset the country for over 20 years and that has escalated in the last eighteen months. The conflict has been at its fiercest in the north of Sri Lanka which is where the Joseph family are from.

The Communist Party of the Philippines and the Khmer Rouge

For decades the Khmer Rouge regime has been exposed for its atrocities and genocides against its own people. Yet the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) nor its political arm, the National Democratic Front (NDF) nor any of its influenced and led organizations have issued any statement of condemnation. In fact in some of the statements issued by the CPP-NDF or interviews issued by its leaders, they seem to defend the Khmer Rouge.

NCADC News Service Tuesday 31st March 2009

[Failed asylum seekers are not entitled to free treatment - but hospitals can make up their own minds on whether to treat them if they have no money]

Protest at George Soros Lecture

31-03-2009 00:31 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

George Soros, once convicted for insider trading and the currency speculator largely blamed for the sterling collapse that precipitated the recession of '92 and the crash of asian economies in '97, is giving a public lecture at the London School of Economics 1pm TODAY! start the week of protest a day early by making your voices heard!

Coverage of 'We Won't Pay for Your Crisis' demos in Berlin and Frankfurt

Turbulence have compiled a collection to links to German and English language coverage of the 'We Won't Pay for Your Crisis' demonstrations, held in Berlin and Frankfurt last Saturday.

http://turbulence.org.uk/events/we-wont-pay-for-your-crisis/

Keep Alpha Mbodi and his family safe in Sheffield

Alpha Mbodi and his family are from eastern Congo. He fled DR Congo with his two sons in 2005, fearing the war there would claim the lives of his family. Unfortunately the family were unable to escape together and he was forced to leave his wife and young daughter behind. Alpha and his sons were accommodated in Sheffield by NASS shortly after their arrival in the UK.

Make Economy History: PDF of leaflet response to G20 + Crisis

28-03-2009 18:17 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

PDF of leaflet given out on the Put People First! demo in London today.

Mobile phone pics Militant Workers & G20Meltdown bloc

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Mobile phone pics, start of Put People First G20 demo, midday, 28 March 09

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Brown faces crisis march attack 'Free market greed hits millions'

27-03-2009 13:02 | G20 London Summit | Globalisation | Workers' Movements | World

Gordon Brown’s plans for the G20 summit will cost millions of jobs and trap hundreds of millions more in poverty.

Around the Campaigns Wednesday 25th March 2009

Sandrine Mbuyi Ntambwe, Still here, Still fighting

"Sandrine was already on the plane; a late successful injunction got her off the flight and returned to Yarl's Wood. She is not to be removed from the jurisdiction of the UK pending the oral hearing of her application for permission for judicial review refused on papers on 13th March 2009.

Main countries of destination for asylum seekers in 2008

United States (49,000), Canada (36,900), France (35,200), Italy (31,200) and the United Kingdom (30,500)

We Stand with the Iranian Students - Solidarity Action

23-03-2009 13:04 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

We will be holding a demonstration outside of the students union and collecting letters to be sent to the Iranian Embassy calling for our comrades immediate release. We will also be collecting signatures for a petition against sanctions to be sent to the Foreign Office.

European call for a counter summit in Louvain against the Bologna process

23-03-2009 10:55 | Education | Globalisation | Workers' Movements | World

«The worst enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge»

Demonstration @ Yarl's Wood Saturday March 21st 2009

Thousands of person seeking/refused asylum/overstayers/persons 'Sans Papiers' are currently being kept in immigration prisons (AKA Immigration Removal Centres) throughout the UK. They haven't committed a crime, but they can be imprisoned indefinitely. Many of the people detained have experienced torture, and their trauma is exacerbated by being detained. Seven of the IRCs are operated for profit by private companies.

36 people have been in immigration detention for more than two years, 72 more than 18 months, 128 more than one year.

Tinsley House IRC blockaded by protesters 07:00 today

Anti-deportation campaigners are risking arrest to stop the collective expulsion of approximately 50 Iraqi refugees from the UK. Campaigners have locked themselves to the gate of Tinsley House detention centre at Gatwick airport, where some of the deportees are being held, in an attempt to prevent the forcible deportation.

G20 Anarchist Militias to the City

16-03-2009 16:21 | G20 London Summit | Workers' Movements | World

"We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts, and that world is growing this minute"

Buenaventura Durruti.

World Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

G20 protests video shows perfect example of police tactics

Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees - March 2009

African Liberation Day events unite worldwide movement of African resistance

Stop the Forcible Removal of Jeevitha and Neeraja

The Communist Party of the Philippines and the Khmer Rouge

NCADC News Service Tuesday 31st March 2009

Protest at George Soros Lecture

Coverage of 'We Won't Pay for Your Crisis' demos in Berlin and Frankfurt

Keep Alpha Mbodi and his family safe in Sheffield

Make Economy History: PDF of leaflet response to G20 + Crisis

Mobile phone pics Militant Workers & G20Meltdown bloc

Mobile phone pics, start of Put People First G20 demo, midday, 28 March 09

Brown faces crisis march attack 'Free market greed hits millions'

Around the Campaigns Wednesday 25th March 2009

Main countries of destination for asylum seekers in 2008

We Stand with the Iranian Students - Solidarity Action

European call for a counter summit in Louvain against the Bologna process

Demonstration @ Yarl's Wood Saturday March 21st 2009

Tinsley House IRC blockaded by protesters 07:00 today

G20 Anarchist Militias to the City

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