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Whatever happened to the unemployed organising themselves?

Whatever happened to self- organisation within the unemployed sections of our class? Surely they must have some hours left in the week after being forced on courses, or in to doing voluntary work for nothing.

The State of Reform in the Philippines

03-08-2014 02:47 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Akbayan on Aquino’s 5th State of the Nation Address

Philippine President told: Re-energize the campaign for reforms

28-07-2014 10:56 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Philippines: As President Benigno Simeon Aquino III prepares to deliver his 5th State of the Nation Address (SONA), Akbayan Party-list urged him to "re-energize the campaign for reforms" by carrying out "deeper and broader institutional changes" in his last two years in office.

Philippines: 5 Makabayan bloc legislators got P481M pork barrel

16-07-2014 10:10 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Documents from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) last year showed that five congressmen belonging to the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives received a combined P481 million in Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) since President Aquino assumed office in 2010.

Newsflash: Labour Doesn’t Care About You

It turns out the Left can move people – just not very far or in very interesting directions.

Seeing as how these things are usually rained out or freezing, The People’s Assembly at least managed to pick a nice enough day for their “No More Austerity: Demand the Alternative” march on Saturday (June 21st).

It’s a shame they couldn’t also have picked a more inspiring message – begging the government to stop the public service cuts they’re ideologically committed to and demanding a new Labour government as the only ‘alternative’ they can imagine. Hardly an Earth shatteringly radical call to arms for the poor and oppressed. But they do have Russell Brand, so that’s something.

The ‘Asian Century’ and ASEAN integration: contradictions and challenges

26-06-2014 11:44 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Talk given by Sonny Melencio, Chairperson of Partido Lakas ng Masa-Philippines (PLM), during the Socialist Alliance Conference in Sydney, Australia on June 7, 2014

The 3-in-1 revolution

21-06-2014 03:32 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

At the risk of oversimplifying the definition of revolution, I dare say it involves three dynamics: critique and destruction of the existing social order, building a new world, and the continuous reinvention of the self.

Disgusting Tories try to extend 'Universal Credit' on the sly

Those disgusting Tories try to extend 'Universal Credit' on the sly...

Philippine agrarian reform: Powerful law, ineffectual bureaucracy

15-06-2014 10:35 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

When the original CARP program that was passed under President Corazon Aquino was in danger of unraveling, the peasant movement came together and pushed the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms, or CARPER, through Congress in 2009.

A Tribute to Filipino Labor Leader Romy Castillo

10-06-2014 12:10 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Who was labor leader Romy Castillo to this young activist?

Democracy and socialism

28-05-2014 12:18 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Democracy is the most popular word in the vocabulary of politics but also the most brazenly abused.

Philippines: Inclusive growth under Aquino no longer possible

01-05-2014 12:42 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

WITH only two years left in his term as he now enters his fourth year in office, President Aquino could now be described as either unwilling or unable to make the country’s much-hyped economic growth inclusive.

Israel said planning to deport African migrants to Uganda

28-04-2014 11:50 | Anti-racism | Repression | Workers' Movements | World

Israel plans to soon begin deporting migrants from Eritrea and Sudan, who number more than 50,000, back to the African continent via Uganda, officials said.

Benetton stores targeted by global protests

Thursday 24th April marked the one year anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, in which over 1000 people died, and thousands more were seriously injured. Benetton shops were closed across Europe by protesters demanding compensation for the victims.

GAP Cambridge shut in shame on 1st Anniversary of Rana Plaza Collapse GAP and GA

25-04-2014 16:28 | Workers' Movements | Cambridge | World

GAP Cambridge shut in shame on 1st Anniversary of Rana Plaza Collapse
GAP and GAP Kids shops were shut in shame in Cambridge yesterday as customers, workers and passers-by were reminded and informed about the 1st anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster where workers were mass murdered by the company’s practices.

Class War in Ukraine: Krasnodon Miners’ Strike in armed antifascist uprising

25-04-2014 08:56 | Analysis | Repression | Workers' Movements | World

BREAKING NEWS Eastern Ukraine, 25th April 2014. Workers in 5 mines belonging to the strategic coal basin around Krasnodon (Eastern Ukrainian Oblast of Lugansk) are on strike since 22nd April. Just one hour ago official media confirms, that public transport and other sectors in town have joint the strike in solidarity

Victory to the striking South African miners! Demonstrate in London, Thursday 24 April

17-04-2014 06:46 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | London | World

Assemble 1pm, Thursday 24 April, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre
Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London, SW1P 3EE
Outside the Anglo American AGM

#137: Breaking the Frame & politics of technology, rant on Irish policing...and

Listen to episode 137 of Dissident Island Radio featuring an interview on Breaking the Frame - a series of events and conferences discussing the politics of new technologies, the history and relevance of Ludditism, an informed rant on policing in Ireland and Dissident Island Discs.

On National Democracy

07-04-2014 11:53 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The concept of National Democracy aims to overthrow feudalism and achieve independence from colonialism.

Eco-Warriors Accuse Enfield Council of Corruption at Middlesex University

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. - Lord Acton.
As if to symbolise the destruction of the earth itself, day by day the 400-year-old oak trees in the ancient woodlands at Middlesex university at Cat Hill Cockfosters Enfield north London, have been cut down while the eco-warriors support the blockade at the front gates by elderly local residents to protest against the blatant theft of their educational and environmental heritage by the crooked property developers London and Quadrant and the equally corrupt Enfield council.

World Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

Whatever happened to the unemployed organising themselves?

The State of Reform in the Philippines

Philippine President told: Re-energize the campaign for reforms

Philippines: 5 Makabayan bloc legislators got P481M pork barrel

Newsflash: Labour Doesn’t Care About You

The ‘Asian Century’ and ASEAN integration: contradictions and challenges

The 3-in-1 revolution

Disgusting Tories try to extend 'Universal Credit' on the sly

Philippine agrarian reform: Powerful law, ineffectual bureaucracy

A Tribute to Filipino Labor Leader Romy Castillo

Democracy and socialism

Philippines: Inclusive growth under Aquino no longer possible

Israel said planning to deport African migrants to Uganda

Benetton stores targeted by global protests

GAP Cambridge shut in shame on 1st Anniversary of Rana Plaza Collapse GAP and GA

Class War in Ukraine: Krasnodon Miners’ Strike in armed antifascist uprising

Victory to the striking South African miners! Demonstrate in London, Thursday 24 April

#137: Breaking the Frame & politics of technology, rant on Irish policing...and

On National Democracy

Eco-Warriors Accuse Enfield Council of Corruption at Middlesex University

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