UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive
Homelessness in Rushmoor
19-08-2004 14:18
What is homelessness? A fairly obvious question, deserving an obvious answer, but not it seems in the Rotten Borough of Rushmoor.The "Intifada of the empty stomach"
19-08-2004 10:02
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Housing & Social Apartheid
18-08-2004 18:45
Blair’s policy experts strike out again at the working class to further exclude and practice their “Social Apartheid”Ethnic cleansing in Bombay Street remembered
18-08-2004 13:14
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thirty-fifth anniversary of the burning of Bombay Street on
August 15, 1969 at the weekend.
LIVING IN AN ELECTION YEAR: A CARTOON MANIFESTO
18-08-2004 05:13
A comic book style manifesto against the current elections in the United States...REVOLUTION WITHIN THE REVOLUTION
18-08-2004 00:21
In solidarity with the Bolivarian struggle in Venezuela, and for its expansion across all borders...Fight Club & Autonmous Spaces @ rampART
17-08-2004 20:31
Tomorrow night (wednesday 18th from 8pm) at the rampART...Free community cinema presents - F I G H T C L U B
an evening of films and discussion about reclaiming and defending spaces from capital
- land squats, housing, social centres and much more...
People involved in squat projects/social centres are invited to come along and share their experiences, motivations and stories of resistance.
Some of the projects represented (either on film or hopefully in person), include:
* rampart street creative centre (new 10 minute film plus speakers)
* sutton street 21st century action zone (10 min film plus speaker)
* chalk farm road autonomous lab (short film, maybe speaker)
* plus other films from;
Barcelona, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Roma, Milan, Berlin and more
( Anybody from 'in arms reach', 'ex-grand banks', ‘St’ Agnes Place’, ‘142’, ‘491’ )
( ‘Unity Works’ or from 'Use Your Loaf' wanna come along and/or got video? )
Starts 8pm. Drink and vegan food available.
Also screening... 'Fight Club' 1999 USA 21st Century Fox (139 minutes)
REVIVAL OF THE FAMOUS "MONDAY-PROTESTS" IN GERMANY
17-08-2004 16:27
The so called "monday protests" in Germany (which led to the end of former GDR in 1990) are coming up again: this time with the aim to fight the social cuts planned by the schröder government.News of gay rights struggles-Worldwide.
17-08-2004 15:57
Below are links to gay rights stories from around the world.
FELIXSTOWE – CORPORATIONS KILL
17-08-2004 04:18
Trainee Crane Operator killed at Felixstowe, East Anglia. Giant corporation admits guilt. Hutchins Port Holdings kill workers and environment from East Anglia to Burma. UK wide dock strike looms. Read more....Originally posted on:
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Liverpool City Council preparing stock transfer of 21,500 council houses to RSLs
16-08-2004 21:33
RE-POSTEDLiverpool City Council (Lib-Dem controlled) has been softening up tenants for Stock Transfer, already the glossy leaflets have been delivered, firstly those glossy full colour leaflets that went out a few months ago said that an ALMO (Arms Length Management Organisation, which is one step privatisation) isn't possible, they've also said a PFI (Private Finance Initiative) isn't possible either, thus leaving tenants with the fait-accompli Lib-Dem decision of Stock Transfer or nothing.
Liverpool City Council preparing stock transfer of 21,500 council houses to RSLs
16-08-2004 21:10
RE-POSTEDLiverpool City Council (Lib-Dem controlled) has been softening up tenants for Stock Transfer, already the glossy leaflets have been delivered, firstly those glossy full colour leaflets that went out a few months ago said that an ALMO (Arms Length Management Organisation, which is one step privatisation) isn't possible, they've also said a PFI (Private Finance Initiative) isn't possible either, thus leaving tenants with the fait-accompli Lib-Dem decision of Stock Transfer or nothing.
Video of celebrations in Caracas
16-08-2004 20:26
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Outrageous: Police harrassment at ESF autonomous spaces meeting
16-08-2004 18:31
Right now two vanloads of police are filming and harrassing the people attending a meeting preparing for the upcoming ESF autonomous spaces.Road Alert: New Road Building Proposed for the Peak District
16-08-2004 18:12
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Privatisation of council housing
16-08-2004 14:01
Privatisation of social housing can and should be stopped. Those council tenant who have already been privatised have found themselves far worse off.Result of the referendum in Venezuela
16-08-2004 08:34
The result of the referendum is a victory for Chavez and the bolivarian revolution: 58% voted for the NO (to the rejection of Chavez). People celebrating on the street.For Workers Revolution in Venezuela!
16-08-2004 04:12
“None of the countries of Latin America or the Pacific which are now under the domination of American imperialism to one degree or another is able either to attain complete freedom from foreign oppression or to retain such freedom for any length of time if it confines its struggle to the efforts of its own self. Only a union of the Latin American peoples, striving towards the goal of a united socialist America and allied in the struggle with the revolutionary proletariat of the United States, would present a force strong enough to contend successfully with North American imperialism.”Venezuela : observers in The Hague!
16-08-2004 02:17
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