UK Indymedia - UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

UG#595 - An Antidote To Forgetfulness (The Great New Zealand Fire Sale)

07-12-2012 23:40

This week we review the wholesale privatization of New Zealand carried out in the 1980s and 90s. We hear a radio adaptation of Alister Barry's 1996 documentary, Someone Else's Country and conclude with a few words from Chapter 7 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

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UG#599 - What Economics Can't Tell You About Money (Alienation, Black Magic...)

07-12-2012 23:31

This week, a set of sideways looks at money. We begin with an interview of David Hawkes on a range of ideas about the 'magic' of money, its ability to promote materialism and alienate humans from their work. Next an audio version of Robin Upton's 2011 presentation, "What Economics Can't Tell You About Money", followed by a radio adaptation of the film On Modern Servitude.

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Plebs occupy offices of "plebgate" MP Andrew Mitchell

05-12-2012 18:29

Earlier today a group of angry plebs occupied the offices of "plebgate" MP Andrew Mitchell in response to the continuing cuts and austerity measures and also to coincide with today's Autumn Budget Statement.

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New Amazon Logo Unveiled - #Dec5

04-12-2012 23:21

Join the Protest - London Strand, assemble Kings College, 5.30pm, Weds Dec 5th

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Starbucks – Tax Vampires + Corporate Scroungers (graphics)

04-12-2012 17:38

Leading tax vampires and corporate scroungers STARBUCKS have agreed, in principle, to pay more tax, but then turned on their poorest employees to recoup any reduction in their profits. On the day that the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee branded their tax scams "immoral", Starbucks staff were ordered to sign employment terms which include "the removal of paid lunch breaks and paid sick leave for the first day of illness" and which leave increased salary entitlements "frozen"...

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Anti-Workfare Superdrug Picket Glasgow 11 a.m. Sat. 8th Dec. + 2 more

03-12-2012 19:23

We've changed the starting time of the Superdrug Workfare picket to 11 a.m. (until 11:50 a.m.) as some places online are saying that the Starbucks demo starts at 12 noon and some people want to go on to the Starbucks demo after the picket and the 2nd workfare picket!

http://www.facebook.com/events/436389796422231/

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Day of action against adidas

03-12-2012 12:37

On Saturday 1 December, people across Britain took part in a day of action against adidas. With actions at every major adidas store in the country.

Adidas have refused to pay their former workers in Indonesia $1.8 million in legally-owed redundancy pay. Other brands using the factory have agreed to pay their share of the $3.4m the workers are owed.

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Gustavo Rodriguéz - Antagonistic violence

03-12-2012 08:38

Gustavo Rodriguéz Antagonistic violence:

Approaches to the armed struggle in urban environments
from an anarchist perspective

An Introductory text for a debate with comrade Gustavo Rodriguez, at the Centre of Anarchist Information (CEDIA), Mexico City, 8th of October 2011

http://actforfree.nostate.net/

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Very Good News for Radical Tax Protestors!

02-12-2012 13:17

Starbucks have effectively caved-in on the principle of corporate tax evasion, and say they're in the process of cutting a deal with HMRC to start contributing to the cost of the taxpayer-funded infrastructure and the health and education services that their business exploits. There's a long way to go yet, but this is very encouraging, INCREASE THE PRESSURE

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Czarist War, Communist Peace

01-12-2012 21:28

anticommunist war propaganda in the 1930's

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Never Trust A Hippy – The Green Charity With 20,000 Workfare Slaves

30-11-2012 19:05

The Conservation Trust for Volunteers (formally BCTV) have been exposed as one of the largest exploiters of unpaid labour.

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Anti-Workfare Picket Superdrug Glasgow Sat. 8th Dec. 11.30 a.m.

28-11-2012 23:15

Anti-Workfare Picket Superdrug
Public event · By The Crutch Collective

Share, join and invite friends:

http://www.facebook.com/events/436389796422231/

Saturday, 8 December 2012
11:30 until 12:20
Superdrug, 117 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3ER.

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Union branch votes for one-state solution for Palestine

28-11-2012 12:21

Lambeth’s Local Government Branch of UNISON last week voted to endorse a one-state solution for Palestine based on equality and justice for all citizens, and supporting the right of return to millions of Palestinian refugees. A motion was tabled in response to Israel’s ongoing attacks and siege on Gaza.

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Human Rights for University of London outsourced workers - DEMO TOMORROW

27-11-2012 09:15

https://www.facebook.com/events/417931154943332/

https://www.facebook.com/3coca

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5j3zxXEl34

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Workfare’s Christmas Bonus For The Bosses – Demonstrate, 8th December

26-11-2012 20:53

As part of the Boycott Workfare national week of action starting on Saturday 8th December, Boycott Workfare West Midlands will be holding a demonstration outside shops in Birmingham City Centre that profit from the free labour supplied by the taxpayer.
Saturday 8th December, 2pm
at the new Poundland, S12 Martinaeu Place, 76-77 Corporation Street, Birmingham, B2 4UQ
Please join and invite your friends to the facebook event and spread the word.

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