UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive
Around the Campaigns Tuesday 13th October 2009
13-10-2009 08:48
Children held in UK immigration removal centres develop mental and physical health difficultiesSupporting the Striking Postal Workers
12-10-2009 19:46
A brief article on the Postal Workers StrikeVestas Wind shares decline 10/10/2009
12-10-2009 17:05
Shares of Vestas Wind Systems A/S, the world's biggest maker of wind turbines with facilities in Colorado, dropped to the lowest since April in Copenhagen after Svenska Handelsbanken AB cut its recommendation to "reduce" from "accumulate."New pamphlet: After Makhno (Hidden histories of Anarchism in the Ukraine)
12-10-2009 08:51
The Kate Sharpley Library are pleased to announce our new pamphlet containing two essays on Makhnovist opposition in the Ukraine after the triumph of Bolshevism.Free Murad Akincilar! Stop the criminalisation of Turkish trade unionists!
10-10-2009 18:51
Edinburgh Bin Workers' Dispute
10-10-2009 15:48
News of the Edinburgh Bin Workers Dispute can be found on the front page of Indymedia Scotland:
http://www.indymediascotland.org/
Massive yes vote smacks down Royal Mail
10-10-2009 15:17
What a great result! A massive majority of 76.24%. Royal Mail’s feeble appeals to the membership have fallen flat on their face.Champagne politics with a cutting edge
10-10-2009 12:59
Will to Win- Vestas Update - Caroline Lucas meets workers. winds of change!
09-10-2009 18:34
Flash mobs as a form of struggle
09-10-2009 14:25
The obedient shopper subverts their role to disrupt the circulation of commodities... flash mobs enter the terrain of class conflict.The Need For Industrial Unity: a question of anarchist organisational imperativ
08-10-2009 13:27
Workers' Climate Action conference, 10 and 11 October
08-10-2009 10:16
The Workers' Climate Action network's second conference takes place on 10 and 11 October at University College London.Vestas Camp update: Green Leader to take Vestas Fight to Europe
07-10-2009 14:01
Green Party Leader, the Isle of Wight’s Green MEP, and prospective parliamentary candidate for Brighton Pavilion, Dr. Caroline Lucas MEP is to visit the Vestas Wind Turbine Blade factory on the IOW on Friday (9TH October). From 11.30 am – 1.30 pm she will be present at the ‘Magic Roundabout’ Solidarity/Protest Camp, St. Cross Business Park, Dodnor Lane, Newport, IOW. Dr Lucas has arranged to share lunch with the workers and their supporters, to listen and learn more about how she can help the campaign(1). (PHOTO OPPORTUNITY)Thousands Against IMF Clash with Cops in Instanbul
07-10-2009 03:12
Turkish policeand transnational and local protesters clashed in Taksim Square and surrounding neighbourhoods in central Istanbul todayTowards a new anticapitalist party in Britain? Public Meeting Thurs 8 Oct London
06-10-2009 15:23
Workers' Power! - forthcoming events in Londonglobal children's revolution proposed with kids leading climate marches
06-10-2009 14:35
some of the road protesters from the 1990s would like to see a worldwide children's revolution with the children of the eco-warriors leading the global climate change marches and demonstrations on 24 october 2009'Failure is not an option' for Vestas. It ain't for us either.
06-10-2009 11:48
'Failure is not an option' for Vestas, according to their Business Strategy. It's not an option for the campaign to save the Newport, Isle of Wight factory either. We have the 'Will to win' that Vestas' CEO claims Vestas' have. The factory will reopen. Wind Turbine Blades will be produced in the UK, for the UK. Workers will be unionised. You never know, the factory might even be a workers' coop.Protest against University of Leeds Job cuts 12.30pm 8/10/09
06-10-2009 11:06
A joint day of action with UNITE, UCU and UNISON will take place on Thursday the 8th of October at 12:30pm on the Grass outside the Edward Boyle LibraryBristol-Copenhagen Mobilisation Meeting
06-10-2009 08:16
Workers' Fightback: Postal battlelines drawn, new workers' council in Sri Lanka
05-10-2009 21:17
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!
