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Sheffield No Sweat Action report Sunday 12th Feb

13-02-2006 15:40

Anti - Sweatshop autonomous action in Sheffield town centre, in the spirit of the workers movements it was mainly unannounced and spontaneous .....


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Audio and review of Boliva Solidarity gig

12-02-2006 15:27

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A bunch of audio files including traditional bolivian music, an interview with a member of the Bolivia Solidarity Campaign, plus a little bit of Attila The Stockbroker...

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Video - london news roundup sat 11th feb

12-02-2006 05:56

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A quick crash edit of various things that happened in London on the 11th Feb. Video is 6 mins 30 seconds long and encoded in H264 MP4(10)

If your media player can't handle this new format, download and install VideoLan (VLC) which is available of Windows, Max OSX and GNU/Linux.

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worker from occupied argentinian factory speaks in oxford

11-02-2006 22:56

On Monday 13 February Jose Julian Pununuri, a worker from the worker-occupied Zanon ceramics factory in Argentina, will be speaking in Oxford as part of a national speaker tour organised by No Sweat and the Argentina Solidarity Campaign.

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Asda/WalMart's anti-Union tactics cost them £850,000

11-02-2006 16:46

WalMart well known for it's anti-union tactics elsewhere tried to bribe workers in Tyne and Wear to give up union rights and had given out material "very hostile to trade unions and highly disparaging of the process of collective bargaining".

The workers response? Take industrial action. Finally, now they all get compensation as the court finds against, and is highly critical of, Wal Mart.

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The Battle for Queen’s Market

11-02-2006 16:40

Newham Council are trying to sell off a thriving hundred year old market to developers St Modwens, who will sub-let to supermarket chain Asda. local campainers "friends of queens Market" have been fighting the plans, and have a lot of local support.

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Valentines Day protest against Death by Deregulation

11-02-2006 15:44

A protest against government imposed death by deregulation is being held on Valentines day - this Tuesday - outside the bi-monthly meeting of the Health and Safety Commission, the government-appointed committee that sets the policy for the Health and Safety Executive.

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No Sweat Week of Action 11-18 February

10-02-2006 09:26

No Sweat, the national campaign against sweatshop Labour, is holding a week of action from 11-18 February. Activist in Sheffield have organised a series of events.

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Sacked for wearing Union Badge - 1000s worldwide join campaign

09-02-2006 09:11

Joanne wearing her union badge
A Union Steward was sacked by anti-union Dunnes, 'the Wal-Mart' of Ireland. Joanne Delaney's case has now sparked local campaign groups, and pickets, around Ireland; and an international campaign resulting in an amazing 5,000 plus e-mails.

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Zanon speaking tour, Wed 15th Feb

07-02-2006 18:22

As part of the first Students Against Sweatshops campus-wide week of Action, Jose Julian Pununari from the occupied Argentinean Zanon factory is visiting the UK on a speaker tour. He is coming to Cambridge on Wednesday February 15 -- 12.30pm

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Free Iran's 800 jailed union activists

07-02-2006 10:20

Support the Tehran bus workers strike. Defend the right of Iranian workers to form labour unions.

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How did Yuasa Workers in Birmingham lose out?

06-02-2006 23:50

How did Yuasa workers lose out on the same employment, higher education and training opportunities as MG Rover workers?

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PROTESt: Iranian government out of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)

06-02-2006 01:27

Join the Protest;
Workers of Iran need your support!
Iranian government out
of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)

To support workers of Bus Company in Tehran
To condemn the Islamic regime of Iran for attacking workers
To demand the immediate release of arrested workers
To demand the exclusion of the Islamic Republic and its Islamic councils from the ILO
JOIN US
When: Friday 10 February, 12:00-2:00

Where: ILO, 21-24 Millbank Tower, London, SWP
Nearest tube station:
Westminster (bus 77A, 88) & Pimlico, Victoria ( bus 507)

Tel: 07950924434

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Gate Gourmet latest betrayal

05-02-2006 15:58

T&G boss Woodley says dispute over and ends hardship[ payments- but it isn't

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Ken Knabb's masperized translations

05-02-2006 04:02

For decades, the only translation of the Situationist International's text about Jean Maitron -- an "anarchist" historian who'd falsified one of the SI's texts, got called on it and, when he didn't do anything, was roughed-up by two young situs -- was Ken Knabb's masperized version, which failed to translate well over half of this relatively short text. We are happy to announce that NOT BORED! has translated the text, from scratch and in its entirety, as it once did with Knabb's masperization of Guy Debord's "The SI Today."

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Iran's Nuclear Industry and the threat of sanctions

04-02-2006 12:57

An Open Letter to the Anti War movement

Iran's Nuclear Industry and the threat of sanctions

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12th Feb: speaker from worker-occupied Zanon factory in Argentina

03-02-2006 19:57

Monday 12th February, 12.30pm, The Okinaga Room, Wadham College, Parks Road: Speaker meeting

Goodheart Seminar Room, 8pm, Wadham college: Film showing

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Anniversary of Lee Kyung Hae -- Report from Korean Farmer's League

02-02-2006 21:15

Kyung Hae in Cancun
Remember the struggle! Remember Lee Kyung Hae!

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Welfare Reform Web Chat 10:30am today

02-02-2006 08:14

Welfare reform webchat with minister today

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Venezuelan trade union leaders to speak in Manchester on Mon 27th Feb

01-02-2006 22:35

VENEZUELA INFORMATION CENTRE - PUBLIC MEETING

"VENEZUELA – WHAT'S GOING ON?
Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution – oppose US aggression"

MONDAY 27TH FEBRUARY 2006, 7.30 pm

Mechanics' Institute, 103 Princess Street, Manchester