UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive
Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees, January 2010
02-02-2010 09:08
Two actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and two improved in January 2010, according to the new issue of CrisisWatch.the rise of the far right and anti-fascism: february 16th, sheffield
01-02-2010 12:52
Next meeting of Sheffield's communist discussion group.Syndicalism Resurgent: the IWW responds to capitalism’s latest crisis
30-01-2010 18:29
The following article is reproduced from The Commune newspaper with the permission of the author.Journalists paid by UK government to promote chinese goods
30-01-2010 13:26
A government programme paid over £550 each in subsidised trips to sixty journalists & buyers every six months to report on shoes and clothes made overseas for London Fashion Week. MPs with shoe factories in their constituencies - Peter Bone in Wellingborough and Patricia Hewitt in Leicester East - did not write a single letter to protest..Selina Adda did not fly yesterday
28-01-2010 10:25
Selina and her children were collected from Yarl's Wood IRC at approximate 8 a.m. yesterday morning and taken to Heathrow airport. They were shocked to find that they were not taken into the airport but round the back in the vehicle and taken to near the plane.Full article | 1 addition | 1 comment
Cambridge Anarchists look back on 2009
27-01-2010 16:38
Anarchy isn’t all about sitting in the pub talking bollox… sometimes anarchists do stuff as well. Here’s a few highlights of 2009:06 feb 2010 - Make Capitalism History through revolution
25-01-2010 19:39
Sanctuary for the Adda Family
25-01-2010 16:12
Protocol Temp Agency Implements Overt System of Age Discrimination
24-01-2010 17:31
Protocol is a temp Agency used up and down the county by public sector employers to provide temp staff- primarily to avoid staff accruing pension rights- it is therefore especially insidious that they are allowed to discriminate on the basis of age.The Anarchist / Indymedia reaction to the EDL is not working
24-01-2010 11:41
The Anarchist / Indymedia reaction to the EDL is not workingFull article | 3 additions | 4 comments
UWU Picket of A4E, Friday 22/01/2010
23-01-2010 02:36
The group was UWU (Unemployed Workers Union) and the target was A4E.
Iran: The teacher trade unionist still at risk of being executed
22-01-2010 10:53
Farzad Kamangar,who is accused of acting against the security of the country, remains in Evin Prison, despite what his lawyer says is a total lack of evidence against him.
Human Rights Watch / World Report 2010 / Events 2009
21-01-2010 08:11
Taking Back the Initiative from the Human Rights SpoilersThe 20th annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in 80 countries and territories worldwide. It reflects extensive investigative work undertaken in 2009 by Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with human rights activists in the country in question.
Workers' Fightback - Scottish School Sit-in/Iranian Steel/Mexican Standoff
20-01-2010 19:50
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!
'Wobblies' IWW Film Screening 7pm 29th Jan. Glasgow
17-01-2010 22:43
'The Wobblies' Film7pm
Friday 29th January
Electron Club Cinema
CCA
350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow G2 3JD
Sheffield Claimants and Unemployed Workers Launch Meeting
16-01-2010 16:44
Sheffield Claimants and Unemployed Workers launch meeting - Thursday 28th January, 6pm, at the Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, just off Church Street and a few minutes' walk from the Cathedral, with speakers from the Disabled People's Direct Action Network and Hackney Unemployed Workers.Around the Campaigns Friday 15th January 2009
15-01-2010 08:42
ord Carey's comments on immigration promote racism, bishop warnsA Church of England bishop has warned that the former Archbishop of Canterbury's call for new limits on immigration would "play into the hands of racists". The Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, the Right Rev John Packer, is the latest Anglican cleric to criticise Lord Carey of Clifton after he said in an article in The Times that he feared the present levels of immigration threatened "the very ethos or the DNA of our nation". Lord Carey is a member of the crossparty parliamentary group on balanced migration, which last week urged the political parties to make a commitment to keeping Britain's population below 70 million.
http://tinyurl.com/yex6voa Workers' Fightback - Fire Service Cuts/Fujitsu Strikes/'Fair Work Australia'
14-01-2010 00:12
Towards an Unemployed Workers Union in Oxford
13-01-2010 13:56
This is a callout for people to take part in setting up an Unemployed Workers and Claimants Union in Oxford.Visteon workers fight on
13-01-2010 06:08
