UK Indymedia - UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

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Electricians/Sparks Protest in Newcastle.

23-09-2011 00:31

Electricians and Construction workers in Newcastle demonstrated yesterday against a 35% wage cut.

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Unite Official Slams "Cancerous" Electricians' Resistance

21-09-2011 16:57

This morning, electricians briefly occupied a construction site in Farringdon, London, as part of their rank-and-file organised campaign against wage cuts of up to 35%. However, a leaked email has shown the contempt which Unite union tops hold for the aspirations of their own membership.

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Birmingham For The Alternative, TUC, Right to Work Demo,18th September

21-09-2011 04:19

TUC Still throwing Labour a lifeline

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Welsh Miners: Four More Victims of the Profit System

20-09-2011 15:48

Responding to the four deaths at Gleision drift mine at Cilybebyll, South Wales last week, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have launched a joint investigation with the police. Their report is expected to be months away, however it is already clear that the deaths - like so many in the UK and around the world - can be attributed to the supremacy of the profit motive over the needs of working class people.

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From Calais: our comrade Marie-Noelle, we will remember you in action

19-09-2011 14:48

Marie Noelle Gues (Zetkin), the original "No Border" of Calais, died on saturday morning.

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Live stream from #occupywallstreet #takewallstreet protest

18-09-2011 16:37

This channel will feature live streams from global non violent revolution spreading across the globe, with the first broadcasts from Wall Street Occupation in NYC that will start on Saturday, September 17, 2011. The channel will also feature live stream from solidarity protests and events in Spain, Greece, France, Belgium, Iceland and other places around the gblobe

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

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Nick Clegg now attacking democracy itself!

16-09-2011 12:10

Nick Clegg lied about opposing tuition fees, Nick Clegg is collaborating with back-door privatisation of the NHS, and now Nick Clegg is spearheading the biggest covert attack on British democracy since Margaret Thatcher tried to introduce a medieval Poll Tax...

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Public Sector Strike Predictions

14-09-2011 14:29

General secretaries have used the Trades Union Congress conference in London to announce that they will be balloting their membership for strike action against the government's raid on pensions. So far, only 30% of the public sector workforce is covered by the ballots, but already the ruling class is howling in outrage. Using past experience and a little dialectical materialism - i.e. revolutionary common sense as a philosophical guide for the working class movement - what can be predicted over the next few months?

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All out in Birmingham 18 Sept + Manchester 2 Oct

14-09-2011 00:05

Even the mainstream right are admitting the Coalition have betrayed democracy. The next 2 major protests will lobby the Lib-Dem conference, 18 Sept, Birmingham, and the Tory conference, 2 Oct, Manchester. We're defending our right to receive services we've ALREADY PAID FOR through decades of Income Tax and National Insurance payments and VAT...

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UG#567 Radical Democracy & The Rebirth of Epimethean Man (Deschooling Society 7)

10-09-2011 11:35

We start this week's show with Professor David McNally on 21st century instances of people rebelling against their would be overlords. Then a set of activists in Spain on how a recent wave of protests against the austerity morphed into an experiment in self-government. Finally, we conclude our reading of radical philosopher Ivan Illich's 1971 book, Deschooling Society, in which he describes the re-conceptualisation needed to break from the counter-productive and dependency producing hierarchical institutions of the 20th century.

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EDL, SDL & NWI threaten violence against Anti-Fascists

08-09-2011 23:26

The Scottish Defence League are threatening to demonstrate in Edinburgh this Saturday, 10 Sept 2011, 1pm to 4pm. The SDL is well-known for being almost 100% BNP, and recent NWI Facebook posts describe one of their opponents as a "Paki loving cunt", and say that the "NWI-NEI-SDL coallition thrive on kicking the shit out of cunts like you". One SDL supporter is Paul Newlands, who has a huge Swastika tattooed on his chest...

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Trades Union C****

07-09-2011 23:56

TUC gets it dreadfully wrong!

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Rail ticket offices to be cut

05-09-2011 13:53

In the midst of mechanisation and cutbacks, more and more people face losing their jobs to a machine. Banks are increasingly cutting enquiry/customer-services-based jobs as they roll out more and more cash points and automated helpdesks. Big business companies and corporations are using new technologies to streamline their operations, reaping profits for directors and shareholders at the expense of frontline staff.

Today the Transport Salaried Staff's Association, a transport workers' union, announced that 675 rail station ticket offices will be closed. These offices will be replaced by ticket machines.

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Critical NHS demo on Wednesday

04-09-2011 19:17

Critical NHS demo on Wednesday

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Slaughterhouse Jobs: Human and Animal Rights Issues

04-09-2011 18:11

Illegal immirgrants hired to the most dangerous occupation in the world.
Terrified animals kick, peck workers. Workers killed or maimed by chain saws, knives, hooks. Ear dynsfunction from the constant shrieks of animals fighting for their lives.

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Live EDL updates

03-09-2011 09:08

Live EDL updates

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EDL Muster Points Moved to KINGS CROSS

02-09-2011 10:08

EDL Muster Points Moved to KINGS CROSS

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EDL Tower Hamlets Update

01-09-2011 23:37

EDL Tower Hamlets Update

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Proposed Electricians Pay Cut Sparks Resistance

01-09-2011 20:25

Electricians angry about proposed swingeing cuts to their wages are taking an innovative course of action in an attempt to resist the employers' attacks. The success or failure of their initiative may serve as a useful pointer for other workers defending their livelihoods.

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Youth Workers Strike in Oxford

31-08-2011 19:54

On Tuesday 23 August, youth workers in Oxfordshire went on strike over the County Council's plans to off-load its 26 youth centres in favour of “community hubs”, putting 80 professional youth worker jobs at risk and devastating services.