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PHILIPPINES: The Rough and Rugged Road toward Change

05-07-2011 04:51 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Akbayan Party’s Statement on the First Year of the Aquino Government

"Let Them Go!"

Witness' see black men being stopped and searched.

Teacher and lecturers pension cuts

30-06-2011 12:38 | J30 Strike | Public sector cuts | Workers' Movements | World

Stirke action taken by many unions to fight against Pension cuts.

j30 Critical Mass

Watch live broadcasts from a Nokia Phone all over London, from the point of view of a cyclist!

Events in Greece "on a scale not seen since December 2008!"

29-06-2011 20:43 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Our quote above but occupations and actions are happening all over Greece.
Rioting has spread all over central Athens, not contained around Syntagma any longer.
99 protesters hospitalised, 500! treated at Red Cross tents in Syntagma Square.
Legal school (Nomiki) open and providing assistance
Talk that Syntagma square is closed to entrance, rioting is around, and that meeting is happening in Monastiraki
MANY MANY ARRESTS, GREAT VIOLENCE, FASCISTS AND COPS MAKING BOMBS
Meanwhile the prime minister is out eating a a taverna...

Building in Central Brighton Occupied in Solidarity with June 30 Strikes

An abandoned shop front in Churchill Square, Brighton’s biggest shopping centre, has been occupied in solidarity with striking public sector workers.

Second day of major uprising in Athens, Greece

29-06-2011 12:12 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Injuries, arrests, parliament encircled by tens or hundreds of thousands
...

Athens: Riot cop tries to defect in middle of riot!

28-06-2011 20:39 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Translation of accounts from Greek indymedia

#J30 Actions Across the UK

Following is a list of actions sent out from

http://www.demotix.com/ for the June 20th strike. Note the publishing page now has a "J30 Strike" topic and there is an archive here http:/

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2011/j30/

The Revolution Reaches Europe: Tens of Thousands Protest in Greece and Spain

The revolutionary movement that began in Tunisia at the end of last year has now sparked mass movements in Europe; principally, to date, in Greece and Spain. On the surface, these movements have little in common. In Tunisia and Egypt, the people came out in vast numbers to overthrow the hated dictators who, for decades, had strangled their economies and presided over police states, whereas in Greece and Spain, the protestors are not seeking the overthrow of dictators, and are not rebelling against a police state (although both countries can draw on their relatively recent experience of dictatorship).

Un Imigrato a Verona

19-06-2011 22:29 | Workers' Movements | World

On June 17th, 2011, a group of about 25 immigrants that had been protesting for ten days decided to end their protest by climbing up the scaffolding attached to Verona's arena and demanding their long promised residency permits.

Atos Origin Recruitment Event Disrupted by Angry Protests

15-06-2011 08:01 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Around 60 disabled people, supporters and benefit claimants held an angry protest outside the Atos Origin recruitment event in London yesterday.

Beautiful South Korea

13-06-2011 11:58 | Repression | Workers' Movements | World

Int'l Petition urging that the 10 Vietnamese Migrant Workers be found Not Guilty and Released (effective 2011.6.07)

P.s.... this is highlighting the situation in South Korea, not North Korea, as there is lots on North Korea , most people think they know..via amnesty etc. Lots of people think the south is paradise...but its not....

Independent trade unionists in Iran's islamic regime are imprisoned and turtured

10-06-2011 11:47 | Globalisation | Workers' Movements | Birmingham | World

Independent trade unionists in Iran's islamic regime are imprisoned for speaking out about labour rights.

Islamic law means hell for Workers and heaven for Bourgeois and Ruling class .
Worker activist under islamic regime are imprisoned, tortured and even executed just to defend basic workers right.

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=19508

Workfare Unravels

Workfare, the government’s forced labour scheme, could be the latest policy to unravel as encouraging momentum builds against the proposed reform of the welfare system.

Giz A Job – Atos Origin Recruitment Day - 14/6

Benefit claimants, disabled people and supporters will be attending Atos Healthcare’s Recruitment Day on June 14th at 5pm and have called on people to join them.

More South Korean repressions

Police disperse striking Yoosung workers

Week-long strike disrupts production of major automakers

Thousands of riot police raided a regional auto parts manufacturing plant, Tuesday, to put an end to a week-long “illegal” strike that disrupted the production of Hyundai Motor and other major automakers.

Steve Cram: He can run but he can't hide

Today we’re picking on Steve Cram who has signed up as ‘ambassador’ for poverty pimps Atos Origin (1).

Poltical repression Italian style: students placed under house curfew

On Wednesday 25th May, police forced their way into the homes of 6 Padua University students. All have been active in the movement of recent student protests that have shaken several Italian cities, culminating in the December 14th mass protest in Rome. This follows the significant growth of the European movement fighting against attacks on labour rights, welfare cuts, and the marketisation of education, all under a common banner of “We won't pay your crisis”.

Draft Proposal to Replace the Manifesto 'Real Democracy Now'

24-05-2011 11:25 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

DRAFT PROPOSAL FOR A SERIOUS ALTERNATIVE TO DIRECT DEMOCRACY

World Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

PHILIPPINES: The Rough and Rugged Road toward Change

"Let Them Go!"

Teacher and lecturers pension cuts

j30 Critical Mass

Events in Greece "on a scale not seen since December 2008!"

Building in Central Brighton Occupied in Solidarity with June 30 Strikes

Second day of major uprising in Athens, Greece

Athens: Riot cop tries to defect in middle of riot!

#J30 Actions Across the UK

The Revolution Reaches Europe: Tens of Thousands Protest in Greece and Spain

Un Imigrato a Verona

Atos Origin Recruitment Event Disrupted by Angry Protests

Beautiful South Korea

Independent trade unionists in Iran's islamic regime are imprisoned and turtured

Workfare Unravels

Giz A Job – Atos Origin Recruitment Day - 14/6

More South Korean repressions

Steve Cram: He can run but he can't hide

Poltical repression Italian style: students placed under house curfew

Draft Proposal to Replace the Manifesto 'Real Democracy Now'

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