UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive
Fargate Speaker #12 out now
08-02-2010 12:12
84 + Women on Hunger Strike, behind the Wire @ Yarl's Wood IRC
08-02-2010 08:18
"Detention results from political decisions that represent a "hardening attitude towards irregular migrants and asylum seekers" (*PACE)End the Detention of Foreign Nationals Now!
EDL Bottles Out Of Bolton Nazi Brawl
08-02-2010 02:21
Protest French Consulate UK Tues 9th Feb : re : Violent police raid in Calais
07-02-2010 19:54
No Borders are a group who help desperate migrants and have rented a space in Calais that was being used to provide homeless migrants with a warm dry space to stay, food, drink, basic medical supplies, clothing and bedding etc. The French Police and UK Border / Immigration Police have smashed their way into the building via the windows and arrested almost everybody and continue to chase migrants through Calais. The migrants are fleeing political persecution, torture, rape, political imprisonment, starvation etc.'Herbal Essences Test on Animals!' Boots Invasion, Cambridge
07-02-2010 14:53
Campaigners hold a walk-in protest at Boots over its sale of Herbal Essences who test on animals, Cambridge, UK.A video of the action can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQNPMa7QNZA
Ask Britsh Monomark WC1 to Ditch the Nazi British Peoples Party / UDA BPP
06-02-2010 18:56
Report from Save Victoria Baths demo 7/2/10
06-02-2010 17:02
The Save Victoria Baths campaign had called a demo in protest at the council's plans to shut Victoria Leisure Centre on April 1st.
The protest formed up in the Market Square where Unison were also holding a protest against the council, specifically their planned budget cuts which will affect the service provided to older people and lead to job losses. The usual Trot groups were also out, flogging copies of their paper. These groups were all dwarfed by the impressive turnout. Numbers are always difficult to gague at demonstrations, but I would guess there were around 80 people in attendace. The Evening Post, however, reported "more than 100 campaigners."
Save Bita Ghaedi from Deportation. Her own words...
05-02-2010 16:55
Not convinced cps will do anything against criminal behaviour
05-02-2010 09:11
BBC has all morning been saying the Crown Prosecution Service will make an announcement about the six MPs and peersAthens: Major anti-fascist gathering on Saturday, 6.2
04-02-2010 18:16
#179 | Yet another youth in pre-trial detention for the “conspiracy of cells of fire” case; Athens gears up for anti-fascist gatheringSave Bita Ghaedi from deportation and certain execution.
04-02-2010 17:00
Activists sent details of child & threatening letters from government/MI5/DWP
04-02-2010 15:07
An activist with a child was sent strange letters from the Department of Work & Pensions detailing his child benefit & details of his parents pension. He was then telephoned with the warning "We know everything about you & if we want we can get your parents pension money interfered with at any time". The activist said the person phoning was a woman & that she had " an Australian or New Zealand accent. What's scary is that he did not any time given the DWP his mobile phone number.Danny Dorling: Why Social Inequality Persists
04-02-2010 00:08
Solidarity to Alfredo & Christos - Greek Consulate visit in Berlin
03-02-2010 23:07
On the 3.2 some anarchists paid a short visit to the Greek consulate in Berlin, located at the Wittenberg square.Save Victoria Baths: Interview
02-02-2010 20:36
The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti: Now we know
02-02-2010 19:17
"A US military occupation of Haiti under the guise of earthquake disaster ‘relief’ would give Washington and private business interests tied to it a geopolitical prize of the first order. Prior to the January 12 quake, the US Embassy in Port-au-Prince was the fifth largest US embassy in the world, comparable to its embassies in such geopolitically strategic places as Berlin and Beijing.[17] With huge new oil finds off Cuba being exploited by Russian companies, with clear indications that Haiti contains similar vast untapped oil as well as gold, copper, uranium and iridium, with Hugo Chavez’ Venezuela as a neighbor to the south of Haiti, a return of Aristide or any popular leader committed to developing the resources for the people of Haiti, -- the poorest nation in the Americas -- would constitute a devastating blow to the world’s sole Superpower. The fact that in the aftermath of the earthquake, UN Haiti Special Envoy Bill Clinton joined forces with Aristide foe George W. Bush to create something called the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund ought to give everyone pause.According to Marguerite Laurent ('Ezili Dantò') of the Haitian Lawyers’ Leadership Network, under the guise of emergency relief work, the US, France and Canada are engaged in a balkanization of the island for future mineral control. She reports rumors that Canada wants the North of Haiti where Canadian mining interests are already present. The US wants Port-au-Prince and the island of La Gonaive just offshore – an area identified in Aristide’s development book as having vast oil resources, and which is bitterly contested by France. She further states that China, with UN veto power over the de facto UN-occupied country, may have something to say against such a US-France-Canada carve up of the vast wealth of the nation."
The political success of the COP15 mobilisations is still to come…
02-02-2010 19:09
article by Bertie Russell, published here: http://shiftmag.co.uk/?p=331
J18 London & N30 Seattle 1999 - 10 years on
02-02-2010 15:01
Camden Bio Hazard Lab - your LAST CHANCE to speak out public forum in Camden
02-02-2010 14:46
Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees, January 2010
02-02-2010 09:08
Two actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and two improved in January 2010, according to the new issue of CrisisWatch.