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UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive

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CPC Convergence Direct Action Bloc - Website Launch!

17-08-2010 14:07

As most of you know, the Tories are holding their Conservative Party Conference in October to meet with various heads of industry to define the future of our communities.

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Protest at French embassy in Warsaw against evictions and police brutality

17-08-2010 02:10

Polish activists and migrants subvertise a bilboard and hold protest outside french embassy in warsaw over police brutality, evictions and racism in France

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Fascist demonstration in Brighton on August bank holiday

16-08-2010 21:44

Call out for a counter mobilisation

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Protest camp starts at Highgate Farm

16-08-2010 21:31

Highgate Farm is an animal lab breeder in Lincolnshire which has been exposed to breed rabbits and ferrets in dirty, barren conditions for the vivisection industry. There was a protest camp there last year, so activists decided it was time for another one!

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Flexible New Deal and Jobseekers aged 60 and over

16-08-2010 15:40

Flexible New Deal has replaced New Deal. It is mandatory for Jobseekers, but those aged 60+, that is have reached the age for Pension Credits, have a choice. Why therefore are they being threatened with sanctions, ie loss of benefits, if they refuse to participate?

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Join the Radical workers’ bloc at the Lib Dem conference!

16-08-2010 09:35

The Merseyside Trades Union Council have called a demonstration at the Liberal Democrats’ annual conference. This has been billed as “against coalition cuts in public jobs and services” – but we want more.

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Palestinian on Hunger Strike Outside of Israeli Embassy in Berlin

16-08-2010 06:49

Israeli embassy in Berlin
Firas Maraghy, a Jerusalem native and current Berlin resident, has been on hunger strike in front of the Israeli Embassy in Berlin since 26 July, demanding Jerusalem residency rights for his baby daughter and the right to keep his own.

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Anarchist Call Out: CPC Birmingham

15-08-2010 18:06

ORGANISE NOW! WITH ONLY A FEW MONTHS UNTIL THE TORY SCUM MEET IN BIRMINGHAM FOR THEIR ANNUAL CONFERENCE WE MUST NOT LET THIS OPPORTUNITY PASS.

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Call-out to Radical Healthcare Workers!

15-08-2010 12:19

Online discussion forum launched

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Towards a World War III scenario? Role of Israel in triggering an attack on Iran

15-08-2010 09:16

source:"Options in Dealing with Iran’s Nuclear Program", CSIS Report, March 2010
In a very real sense, the war plans against Iran, which has been on the Pentagon's drawing board for more than five years, threatens the future of humanity.

This war can be prevented if people forcefully confront their governments, pressure their elected representatives, organize at the local level in towns, villages and municipalities, spread the word, inform their fellow citizens as to the implications of a nuclear war, initiate debate and discussion within the armed forces.

The holding of mass demonstrations and antiwar protests is not enough. What is required is the development of a broad and well organized grassroots antiwar network which forcefully challenges the legitimacy of war, a global people's movement which criminalizes war.

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‘Conditions in Youth Prisons’

14-08-2010 23:45

In this article, social prisoner John Bowden exposes the violent control methods carried against young people in UK prison. The prison guards who act out their brutal fantasies on young people are not isolated ‘bad’ individuals but part of a de-humanising authoritarian system of exploitation and power. This situation is not simply a case for the United Kingdom, young people are imprisoned in disgusting conditions everywhere, and all these prisons must be torn to the ground with the guards scattered. Fire to the Prisons.

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Remembering Liverpool’s “Bloody Sunday”

14-08-2010 18:56

On Friday 13th August, members of the Liverpool Solidarity Federation distributed leaflets by St George’s Hall to raise peoples’ awareness of a pivotal moment in working class history. The Liverpool Transport Strike and the battle of August 13th, 1911 – our “Bloody Sunday.”

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The Racist Danish

14-08-2010 12:43

PM Rasmussen and soul mates
The Danish government has presently expelled a group of romaine’s (former known as gypsies) from Denmark.

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Coal Train Blockaders Get Their Day In Court

13-08-2010 20:07

We received conditional discharges and restraining orders away from the mine and the power station. Four people were ordered to pay compensation costs to Miller Argent, the company who owns the mine, The judge acknowledged that the action had been carried out carefully to ensure there would be no danger to anyone.

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Drill huggers stop Shell's drilling work

13-08-2010 18:33

Yesterday people from the local community of Pullathomas and Rossport and Solidarity campers lead by the rousing sound of a visiting bagpiper and drummer, returned to one of Shell's drilling rigs, gaining access at low tide across the exposed sand bars of Sruwaddacon bay. On arriving at the rig a number of people surrounded the drill casing and danced around it before forming a tight huddle to prevent any further work occurring. Meanwhile others held a large banner and occupied the area while children played in the sand.

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The Work of violence:a timeline of armed attacks at Kennedy Road

13-08-2010 18:16

The School of Development Studies, at the University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal in Durban, has just published this report on the attack on in the Kennedy Road settlement in Durban in September last year. Abahlali baseMjondolo is the largest poor people's movement in South Africa, and probably on the whole continent of Africa.

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50,000 children killed in Catholic Indian residential schools.

12-08-2010 22:38

As part of "Protest the Pope" week a screening of the multi-award winning film "Unrepentant"
is scheduled for September 15th at Conway hall in London.

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Cheap as Minibus and Veggie-oil coaches going to Edinburgh Climate Camp/Fring

12-08-2010 19:11

Southcoast Climate Camp has committed to hiring the Big Lemon Bus to travel to Climate Camp 2010 in Edinburgh. Unfortunately many people can't make this trip and we have 18 seats that need to filled.

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A new film on the 2005 London bombings: "Seeds of Deconstruction"

12-08-2010 19:05

The July 7th Truth Campaign is happy to recommend to anyone interested in the events of 7/7 is one that updates and expands greatly on the information presented in Ludicrous Diversion, and also helps place the events of 7/7 in a wider historical and political context.

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G20 Seoul: there will be a storm

12-08-2010 16:06

"The wind from above assumes its old forms of arrogance and haughtiness. The police and the Federal Army close ranks around money and corruption. The wind from below once again travels the ravines and valleys; it is beginning to blow strongly. There will be a storm..." -Subcomandante Marcos of the EZLN
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