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BERLIN: 80 000 remember to Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht

15-01-2007 22:08 | Workers' Movements | World

Berlin. 80 000 people came to visit the "Cemetary of the Socialists" to remember to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the founders of the German Communist Party. Luxemburg and Liebknecht were murdered by "Freikorps" Soldiers after World War I.

Pics from the protest march through Berlin.

Venezuela: Chavez announces radical measures against capitalism

12-01-2007 22:11 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela during the swearing in ceremony of his new cabinet gave a fiery speech in which he announced a series of radical measures. If carried out they would be a serious blow against the power of the oligarchy and imperialism in Venezuela. The proposals he made reflect the sharp turn to the left in the country as a whole. They reflect the real mood of the masses and their desire for radical change and an end to capitalism in the country.

American Defeat: An anti-state communist perspective on the Iraq War, 2003

06-01-2007 22:28 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

An analysis of the US-UK war on Iraq which was written just before the start of the war in 2003. Some of the predictions made subsequently proved to be mistaken but the overall picture has proved to be accurate.

"Work camps" for Poles in England?

04-01-2007 18:30 | Migration | Repression | Workers' Movements | World

A Pole apparently held in a work camp in the UK smuggled out a letter which was forwarded to Polish police. Polish police are now investigating claims of Poles being held in work camps in both UK and Italy.

Chavez gets more radical

20-12-2006 17:56 | Workers' Movements | World

“For this new era we need a political instrument at the service of the Revolution and socialism”

In an event called on Friday 15, at the Teresa Carreño Theatre in Caracas, to celebrate the election victory and congratulate those who had made it possible, Chavez made a very important speech about the new phase the Bolivarian Revolution has reached. The whole speech was one blow after another against the right wing of the Bolivarian movement, which has spent the last two weeks since the elections calling for conciliation with the opposition, and was enthusiastically received by the thousands of revolutionary activists present at the Theatre and the hundreds of thousands who watch the speech on national TV.

Pittsburgh IWW Strikes again at Starbucks’ Anti-Union Practices

20-12-2006 14:21 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

"We workers can continue to grovel for these low-wage jobs, or we can just wring our hands in despair, or we can stand up and demand better treatment from these moneymaking corporations. We all know what Starbucks wants its so-called “partners” to do. It’s no mystery why Starbucks is firing workers for organizing, trying to get them to think that a union is unnecessary, and keeping a close eye on those of us who want an independent voice at work.” -- IWW Starbucks Union member

Smash the royal wedding

19-12-2006 11:58 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Movement Against the Monarch (MAM) is preparing their glad rags for the street party of the centuary, a right royal knees up on the event of the wedding of Prince William and his college shag Kate Middleton. With the eyes media turning on this grand royal distraction it is the perfect time to agitate people on the iisue of abolishing these parasites once and for all.

Fear not God, Fear the X-tians who take away the young people's house.

Mobilisation video:

http://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/633.shtml

Help save the house which for more than a hundred years has been instrumental in political organising on the left. From the Youth House to the Father's House - need we say more?

Philippines: Charter Change is Arroyo's Cover-up

12-12-2006 23:57 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

AKBAYAN (Citizens Action Party) today stepped up efforts to derail attempts at the House of Representatives to initiate Charter Change (Cha Cha), calling the move as nothing more than an attempt to cover up the seething political crisis hounding Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA).

How New Labour is creating slave labour

Whatever the merits of Tony Blair's recent retrospective apology for Britain's leading role in the slave trade it would be less hypocritical if his government was not developing a modern system of slavery and the reintroduction of sweated labour through the reshaping of immigration controls.

Whistleblower Tortured by New South Wales Government Medical Office

07-12-2006 09:38 | Health | Repression | Workers' Movements | World

Sydney public service dissidents have been fighting human rights abuses perpetrated at the government medical office for years. HealthQuest was allegedly cleaned up. but this year a worker who has made protected disclosures about HealthQuest in the past suffered reprisals when he was forced to attend HealthQuest for a fitness for part time work assessment. I copied this before the Medical Defence Association and government solicitors forced its removal from Sydney Indy.

The APPO Lives

Communiqué from Somewhere in the State of Oaxaca, from the State Council of the Popular Peoples’ Assembly of Oaxaca

Documentary Filmmakers Detained In Oaxaca

3 December 2006 - two documentary filmmakers and a translator were detained, as they ate at a restaurant near their hotel in the Oaxaca City Center at approximately 2:15 PM local Mexican time. Initial reports indicated that Municipal Police detained the three U.S. citizens, who have been in Oaxaca following and documenting the situation for the last couple of weeks. They were held for roughly 4 hours and then released.

Bush to deliver ultimatum to Iraqi prime minister at Jordan summit

The planned meeting between US President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in the Jordanian capital of Amman failed to go ahead yesterday, after a secret White House memo detailing US plans for Iraq, and critical of Maliki, was leaked to the New York Times.

Philippines: Another militant labor leader shot dead in Laguna

27-11-2006 03:38 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Four young assassins shot dead another militant labor leader in the Calabarzon area past eight this morning. Killed on the spot was Andrew “Bok” Iñoza, union president, for 11 years now, of Alaska Milk in San Pedro Laguna.

Elections in Ecuador: Towards 21st century socialism in Latin America.

27-11-2006 00:38 | Workers' Movements | World

With about 57% of the vote in the exit polls, as opposed to 43% for the banana magnate Álvaro Noboa, the leftist economist Rafael Correa of Alianza País is set to win the presidency in Ecuador.

Oaxaca 25 Nov: rebellion and repression. short resume

This is a short resume of the events during november 25th in Oaxaca

|Offensive of the Federal Preventative Police against the people of Oaxaca |

Confrontation between the police and the APPO in different parts of the city.
A large number of people are reported detained in various parts of the city.
Two deaths are the result of the confrontation. (as of 9:33)

Heavy Police Attack on Oaxaca

many wounded, kidnapped, dissapaered people

Global Action Day for Education (30th Nov.)

A Global Action Day for Education will take place on the 30th Nov to protest and resist neoliberal reforms (especially within the education sector). Students of the world unite!

World Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

BERLIN: 80 000 remember to Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht

Venezuela: Chavez announces radical measures against capitalism

American Defeat: An anti-state communist perspective on the Iraq War, 2003

"Work camps" for Poles in England?

Chavez gets more radical

Pittsburgh IWW Strikes again at Starbucks’ Anti-Union Practices

Smash the royal wedding

Fear not God, Fear the X-tians who take away the young people's house.

Philippines: Charter Change is Arroyo's Cover-up

How New Labour is creating slave labour

Whistleblower Tortured by New South Wales Government Medical Office

The APPO Lives

Documentary Filmmakers Detained In Oaxaca

Bush to deliver ultimatum to Iraqi prime minister at Jordan summit

Philippines: Another militant labor leader shot dead in Laguna

Elections in Ecuador: Towards 21st century socialism in Latin America.

Oaxaca 25 Nov: rebellion and repression. short resume

|Offensive of the Federal Preventative Police against the people of Oaxaca |

Heavy Police Attack on Oaxaca

Global Action Day for Education (30th Nov.)

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