UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive
Details of Anti-Cuts Protests across UK this Saturday
21-10-2010 21:15
A list of anti-cuts demonstrations in towns and cities across the UK this weekend. Please help in distributing this list to other messageboards and mailing lists you have access to.Also post details of other protests you are aware of below.
From small seeds...
Militant murdered by (statist) unionists, Argentina
21-10-2010 17:12
Yesterday (20/10) agents of a mainstream union killed a 23-year-old activist of an independent union in Argentina. Social organisations and the non-official union confederation made an urgent call for mobilisations and a general strike in Buenos Aires.
British government announces unprecedented social cuts
21-10-2010 13:33
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat government’s autumn spending review has introduced the most savage package of public spending cuts ever seen in Britain. Half a million public-sector jobs will be lost as £83 billion, or $128 billion, is cut from the budget. Another half million private-sector jobs will go as a result.Workers' Fightback - French Resistance Movement Shakes Sarkozy
21-10-2010 13:16
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!
Photos - Oct 20th - Lancaster protest against the cuts!
21-10-2010 01:52
Lancaster and Morecambe Against the Cuts!
20-10-2010 21:51
Rally against the cuts at short notice at Lancaster Town Hall, organising meeting after in WMC.Call for International Proletarian Action – Cyber Samhein Sjamming
20-10-2010 19:33
AMANDLA!Labor Rights in Occupied Lands: US Busting Labor Unions in Iraq
20-10-2010 17:43
It is only in comic books and Hollywood movies that America's superheroes exist to defend the underdog. In practice, the armies of America have fanned out around the globe to show they are the willing servants of the corporate overdog. As Noam Chomsky writes in his book "Imperial Ambitions"(Metropolitan), "You can almost predict (U.S.) policy by that simple principle: Does it help rich people or does it help the general population? And from that you can virtually deduce what's going to happen." There is no more disgraceful example than Iraq.A Tale of Two Nations: Red Hot France; Tepid Britain
20-10-2010 17:26
France is grinding to a standstill as millions of workers and students erupt in the streets at the government’s prposal to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. Across the Channel, the new Tory Chancellor has announced savage cuts in public expenditures that will slice away more than a million jobs, drive workers out of south east England and doom the country to years of austerity (unequally imposed, bien sur.) Yet the response has been muted.Full article | 1 addition | 1 comment
Tory multimillionaire witch-hunts welfare claimants
20-10-2010 12:50
Britain’s Chancellor George Osborne has announced legislation that will penalise and force into destitution hundreds of thousands of the poorest people in Britain, who are dependent on welfare benefits.Message of Solidarity with the workers and students of France
20-10-2010 00:13
Message of Solidarity with the workers and students of France from the exploited masses of the United StatesThe government is acting as if we didn't have a rich country...
19-10-2010 21:53
Southend On Sea...Time To Get Up
19-10-2010 15:06
Hereford Heckler #16 out now
19-10-2010 13:24
The October/November issue of the Hereford Heckler is now online and hitting the streets…Government announces massive cuts ahead of UK public spending review
19-10-2010 12:08
Announcements of the “reform” of university funding and public sector pensions and abolition of government quangos have been made in the run-up to the Conservative/Liberal Democrat government’s October 20 Comprehensive Spending Review.Radical Workers Bloc on Anti Cut March
18-10-2010 21:29
Radical Workers BlocBirmingham Wed 20th October & London 23rd October
Action to defend the right to strike
18-10-2010 21:00
01 November · 10:00 - 13:00
Trafalgar Square, SW1
London, United Kingdom
Chilean miners rescued after ten-week ordeal
17-10-2010 00:27
The successful rescue of 33 Chilean miners, buried under tons of rock and rubble for nearly ten weeks, was a cause of celebration in the mining centers of Caldera and Copiapo, throughout Chile, and around the world, particularly in mining regions where workers and their families face the same dangers every day as their Chilean brothers.Austerity? Fuck No! Everyone To Downing St, Oct 20th 6pm
15-10-2010 16:46
Spreading this date and time and intention as far and as wide as possible through your email lists, facebook, twitter etc is a good idea. Word of mouth is a great way to get people out.
Say no to voluntary deportations Zimbabwe
15-10-2010 10:50
Around the Campaigns Friday 15th October 2010Asylum blow for Precious Mhango and her mother Florence
The mother and daughter, who have lived in Britain for seven years, have previously spent several spells in Dungavel detention centre in North Lanarkshire and Yarl's Wood in Bedforshire and were granted a last-minute reprieve last November while sitting on a plane at Heathrow airport about to take them Malawi.
The family's advocate argued their case at a 20-minute hearing in London on Wednesday but Lord Justice Sullivan dismissed their claims, denying them a chance to appeal the Home Office's decision to deport them.
Full story:
Newscotsman.com, 15th October 2010
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/campaigns/florenceprecious.html