UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive
EDL Thug Arrested On Terrorism Charges!!!
17-12-2009 15:19
BMI lease plane to UK/France for joint 'Charter flight' to Afghanistan
16-12-2009 15:59
Moscow: Police break up "Anti-Capitalism-2009” march
16-12-2009 10:11
Barclays Bank In Gravesend Picketed
16-12-2009 09:32
on Tuesday 15 December at around 4.15 in the afternoon, a picket was held outside Barclays bank in Gravesend, Kent as part of the Smash EDO Campaign of targeting Barclays banks over their investments in the arms industry.
Lydia Besong Must Stay
16-12-2009 07:50
Polish High Court Refuses Return of Australian Child
16-12-2009 05:06
Workers' FIghtback - Czech Wildcats/Greece On Fire Again/California Fighting
16-12-2009 00:31
We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders!
We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives!
Youth Walk on United Nations Human Rights Day
15-12-2009 22:54
Direct Action; Russia, Ireland & Italy
15-12-2009 22:07
"FUR = MURDER," OTHER SLOGANS PAINTED AT FUR SHOPS (Russia)
LOCKS GLUED AT BUTCHERS, BOOKMAKERS (Ireland)
FREEDOM FOR QUAIL, PHEASANTS, HENS AND BOAR (Italy)
Latin American Countries Reject Clinton’s Threats over Iran Ties and a Note
15-12-2009 19:49
"The time is at hand for the progressive movement to fight the “Obama sham.” It is clearer everyday from just about every move this administration makes that Obama is on the wrong side of history. He stands with Zionism against the legitimate and just rights of the Palestinian people. U.S. preparations for war with Iran are obvious to any but the most gullible. Similarly, the U.S. war machine is preparing to recapture it’s “backyard.” in America. Even the environment gets no respite as mountains and their ecosystems, which grew over millions of years, are still being blown away for the pittance of dirty coal desired by corporate mining giants. The rich nations, lead by the U.S.. will not even press for meaningful emissions reductions in Copenhagen.Progressive forces need to wake up before it is too late. Obama was chosen because he could accomplish (for the ruling class) what we would never have allowed the Bush Fascists to succeed at. Namely to keep capitalism alive as the world around us revolts. Despite his obvious charisma, intelligence, and amazing personal power and inspirational gifts, Obama currently stands against the people of the world and with the reactionary "hangers on" of the “old order.” We must clear our political eyes now and get on to building the “better world” we know is possible."
Airport Protests In France against returning refugees to Kabul war zone
15-12-2009 17:09
Calais Migrant SolidarityPress Release. 15/12/2009
calaisolidarity@gmail.com Twitter: calaisolidarity
Climate Activists Invade Meeting of Senior Politicians in Copenhagen
15-12-2009 16:46
Around the Campaigns Tuesday 15th December 2009
15-12-2009 13:57
- "The forced return to Kosovo of people who have found shelter in European states should be halted", said the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights publishing today a letter to the Chancellor of Germany, Dr. Angela Merkel. He notes that Kosovo lacks infrastructures allowing refugees' sustainable reintegration.Young mother commits suicide and kills her son after months of poverty
15-12-2009 13:44
Earlier this month, a London Coroner’s Court heard that on June 13 this year, Christelle Pardo leapt from the sixth-floor balcony of her sister’s flat in Hackney, east London, holding her five-month-old son Kayjah in her arms. She did so after months of dire poverty. Both mother and son were killed.ITALY announces fascist illiberal measures: new rules on marches and web sites
15-12-2009 13:18
Casini disputes that: "No to illiberal measures, laws are already there"
Maroni: "New rules on marches and sites" The proposals under consideration Thursday of the CDM
ROME - On Thursday, the Council of Ministers will consider new, stricter rules on demonstrations and on the Internet. This was announced by Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, speaking of "the most appropriate and urgent measures" to which it is conceivable that the government act by decree. The holder of the Interior Ministry has also informed that the Executive is considering the possibility of extending the rules to public demonstrations against the violence in stadiums.
Climate protestors scale Canadian embassy and deface flag
15-12-2009 11:06
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15/12/09Photo and video opportunity from 8am: The Canadian High Commission, 1Grosvenor Square CLIMATE PROTESTORS SCALE CANADIAN EMBASSY AND DEFACE FLAG
Black Cat Centre evicion - updated info and callout - support needed!
15-12-2009 09:48
Report from Cop-enhagen
15-12-2009 09:37
The signs up all over the airport and various places elsewhere in town are calling it Hopenhagen, but everybody I know is calling it Cop-enhagen, which seems far more appropriate. The international media has been giving this lots of coverage, and rightly so. Of course much of the media is unable to walk and chew gum at the same time, so other things, such as the reason the protests are happening in the first place, can get lost.
COP15 prisoners riot in makeshift jail
14-12-2009 23:55
For the second day in a row, the police have used pepperspray against the inmates in the climate prison in Valby. Climate activists smashed the cages and used benches to break cell doors open. The police are sending out daily press-releases with the latest news about the many arrests in connection with the protests against the COP15 summit, but some stories never go further than the police’s leadership and are left out of the official accounts.