UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive
Brighton Squatters - Update on a crazy week
03-02-2012 22:44
New Unionism: a conference on how workers can fight back
03-02-2012 12:15
In the late 1880s, workers (often unskilled or semi-skilled, often migrants and often working in casualised and precarious environments) organised militant industrial unions to fight back against their bosses. Socialist activists like Eleanor Marx, Tom Mann and Will Thorne were crucial to the struggles.Faced with increasingly similar conditions today, can we build a New Unionism for the 21st century that transforms and revolutionises the modern labour movement? Organised by Workers' Liberty.
Irish Workplace Occupations Highlight Class Tensions
02-02-2012 23:50
Citizens Advice Bureau in New Funding Cut Difficulties
02-02-2012 16:50
Protest Outside Atos in Solidarity with the Nottingham 2
02-02-2012 13:08
Friday 3rd February 1-2pm Triton Square.Benefit claimants, disabled people and supporters will be gathering outside Atos’ head office in Triton Square this Friday in solidarity with the Nottingham 2 who were charged with ‘aggravated trespass’ at a previous protest in Nottingham.
Cuts to Bus Services Come to Cambridgeshire Today.
31-01-2012 16:25
In fact, decisions made today in that building will change many peoples' lives forever, as there was a meeting by county councillors to decide which rural bus services are to have their funding cut.
Catholic Workers Jailed in U.S. as part of the Occupy Movement
31-01-2012 12:04
Des Moines (iOWA/ USA) Catholic Worker founder Frank Cordaro was sentenced to 30 days in Polk County, Iowa early this morning, after he and 10 other members of Occupy Des Moines were arrested for criminal trespass at "People's Park" at the Iowa State Capitol at 11pm last night. Des Moinies Catholic Worker Eddie Bloomer was sentenced to 14 days.Dale Farm: Second Eviction Threat
31-01-2012 06:31
Following clearance from their own land
last October, families on the Dale Farm
estate have now been warned they could
face imprisonment for contempt of court
if they continue to live within the eviction
zone.
Venezuela – El Libertario #65: Opening up free spaces
29-01-2012 19:49
Video: Syrian Khamenei supporters attack anti-war Iranians
29-01-2012 14:53
On January 28 around 300 protesters gathered at the American embassy to oppose the increasingly bellicose rhetoric against Iran and Syria. Called by the Stop the War Coalition under the title of ‘Stop the war before it starts: don’t attack Iran/Syria’, the protest was in many respects something that seasoned activists in the anti-war movement would be all too familiar with. Well-meaning, if often slightly tedious and repetitive speeches, a few chants and the promise to build an enormous opposition that could finally scupper the imperialists’ plans once and for all. However, it soon became apparent that this was not going to be simply ‘business as usual’. In a somewhat embarrassing indictment to the approach of ‘as broad as possible’ typified by the coalition, several speakers were booed or chanted down, and fights broke out between protesters. At one point a group of Iranians from the London Green movement lined up against supporters of the Syrian Baathist regime under the sway of Bashar Al-Assad. It was not pretty.Full article | 3 additions | 2 comments
Cops riot, 300 nicked as Occupy Oakland tries to Occupy Social Centre
29-01-2012 14:17
Daisy lane eviction,north wales
28-01-2012 14:39
Eviction at St Paul's delayed while Court of Appeal considers the evidence
28-01-2012 00:49
The Court of Appeal has ruled there can be no eviction at St Paul's protest camp until Tuesday 31 January at the earliest while the judges consider the evidence presented by Occupy London and the eco-warriors.Eco-warriors propose turning St Paul's Cathedral into Extinction Eco-Village
27-01-2012 23:35
With eviction at St Paul's protest camp apparently imminent some of the eco-warriors are proposing that the anti-capitalist protesters should take sanctuary inside the cathedral and transform it into the Extinction Eco-village to avoid being violently attacked by the police.crackdown on radical left groups in Italy
27-01-2012 21:24
the arrest and trial of some members of CARC, an Italian Maoist party, under renacted fascist mussolini era laws, for 'subversive association for purposes of terrorism'. This law has not only targeted Maoists, but other far left groups, including Anarchists and Autonomous groups that are in some way independent of the 'official left'. Demonstration in London at Italian Embassy on the 8th February.Do you want to help stop the world’s most destructive project?
27-01-2012 17:15
Eco-warriors are appealing against St Paul's protest camp eviction
27-01-2012 15:35
Occupy London and the eco-warriors are in the Court of Appeal RIGHT NOW applying for a stay of execution on the order to evict St Paul's protest camp and we have until 4pm to get an injunction otherwise the eviction can legally begin almost immediately.#15MGlobalStrike – Italian Grassroots syndicalist general strike on 27 January
27-01-2012 02:00
We recognize that the strike on 27 January called by the USB, Unicobas, Orsa, SICobas, Snater and USI unions is an opportunity for this renewal of the ability to mobilize of the workers’ movement in Italy and as anarchist communists, we declare our solidarity with the workers of all kinds and with all those who join the strike and participate in the demonstration in Rome on Friday 27 January.Michael Gove Visiting Birmingham Tomorrow (Friday) – Protest 1pm
26-01-2012 23:51
Ninestiles Academy, Hartfield Crescent, Birmingham, B27 7FQ
Leeds Antifascist Film Festival Programme
26-01-2012 19:33
