UK Indymedia - UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

Workers’ Fightback: Update 9

03-07-2009 15:15

This past week has been relatively quiet on the industrial front. However, this is only in comparison to the past several, have seen workers gain real if unstable victories at the Lindsey oil refinery in North Lincolnshire, the Linamar car parts factory in Swansea, and a link-up between students and cleaners at the London School Of African and Oriental Studies.

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Shop stewards conference a qualified success

02-07-2009 13:46

This article can be found with active links at

http://theleftluggage.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/a-reason-to-be-cheerful/

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Support sacked London cleaner activist this Friday

02-07-2009 11:27

Join the picket this Friday in Canary Wharf in solidarity with vicitmised cleaners campaigner Alberto Durango and against the use of immigration status to attack workers organising.

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London Picket against Honduras Coup

01-07-2009 09:29

Protesters gathered outside the Honduras Embassy in Gloucester Place, London on Tuesday evening (30 June 2009) in an emergency picket against the reactionary military coup in Honduras on Sunday 28 June.
Pictures copyright (C) 2009, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.

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I.D. Cards For Foreigners Only

01-07-2009 08:12

The announcement that no "UK Citizen" will be required to carry an I.D. Card, was given a brief and apparently uncontroversial sub-clause "except for foreign workers".

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50,000 workers on the streets & 50 factories burning in Bangladesh

30-06-2009 22:11

The mass unrest in the garment industry continued on Monday (29 June) for a third day...

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Stop the BNP's 'Festival' of Hate

30-06-2009 21:08

Local Campaign Groups and the TUC mobilise against unwelcome Fascist event

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Around the Campaigns Tuesday 30th June 2009

30-06-2009 10:28

You have the Power to Stop Deportations

You will need Courage, Persistence and Faith

An Anti-Deportation Campaign involves organizing resistance to restrictive immigration legislation, and simply means making the government change their minds regarding an individual case.

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Defend Yunus Baksh

30-06-2009 09:12

Defend Yunus Bakhsh Campaign June 2009

A reply to UNISON

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Marx in Soho

29-06-2009 15:33

Howard Zinn's play performed by Jerry Levy in Newcastle Upon Tyne

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Military Coup in Honduras (by Latuff)

29-06-2009 14:58

An attempted coup has broken out in Honduras in the lead-up to a referendum scheduled for June 28. The referendum is on whether a further vote should be held to decide to re-write the Central American nation's constitution. Read more here:

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/800/41205

To be published in the bulletin "Divulgando" of the Associacao dos Servidores do PRODERJ, ASCPDERJ, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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More mayhem - garment workers' rioting continues in Bangladesh

28-06-2009 23:09

The unrest continues in the garment industry - another worker killed as rioting spreads across the whole garment factory area in Ashulia.

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Birmingham Left Communists

28-06-2009 18:59

Left Communist literature will be on sale in Birmingham city centre on Saturday, 4 July, 11.30-12.30pm.

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Protests continue in Iran – Free All Political Prisoners!

28-06-2009 17:56

Quick report and videos from the continuing protests in Iran along with an appeal to support political prisoners. Please repost.

Videos can be found here:-

http://hopinewsfromiran.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/protests-continue-in-iran-free-all-political-prisoners/

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Fury; garment worker shot dead in Bangladesh

28-06-2009 10:08

The persistent outbreaks of workers' anger continue in the Bangladeshi garment industry. A strike escalates...

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The truth on Pellas Group's shameful insensitivity

27-06-2009 16:37

Since March 9, former sugar workers suffering from Chronic Renal Insufficiency have been camped in Managua calling for compensation.

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Workers' Fightback: Update 8

26-06-2009 21:29

Co-ordinating solidarity and exchanging information on independent, rank and file working class resistance to the profit system. The revolution will be social networked...

We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system!

We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders!

We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives!

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Pictures from Calais, 26.06.2009

26-06-2009 13:22

recent photographs from inside the calais no borders camp

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Lindsey wildcat strikers offered reinstatement!

26-06-2009 09:02

A week ago, 51 workers at Lindsey Oil Refinery were sacked for their role in January's dispute over the use of overseas companies to undermine union agreed pay and conditions. More than 4,000 joined the LOR workers in a wave of wildcat strikes over the past week. Now Total, their employer, has agreed to offer them their jobs back.

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Beginning of the End in Iran

25-06-2009 20:17

Ayatollah Khamenei’s June 19 speech reminded many Iranians of some of the utterances of the shah in the last months of his rule: former president and current chairman of the ‘assembly of experts’ Ali Akbar Rafsanjani cannot be corrupt – he has been the supreme leader’s friend for over 50 years! Everyone in Iran had accepted the results of the elections: it was all the fault of foreign powers and foreign media that some people are now doubting them! Conspiracies are all around us and, just as in colonial times, the British are behind it.