UK Indymedia - UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

Spring Break Delegation to Bolivia, Food Sovereignty, and Indigenous Resistance!

10-01-2016 17:55

The Plurinational State of Bolivia is the first country in the hemisphere governed by a progressive indigenous leader. Learn about indigenous struggles for sovereignty over food, land, and water. Gain an understanding of the spiritual and philosophical foundations of Pachamama. And discover the traditional ecological knowledge of the country’s indigenous peoples. Meet with farmers, community leaders, government officials, and others. Experience the rich culture of the Andes and soak in the sights, sounds, people, and politics at this historic moment in Bolivia.

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Commissioner to Athens: Meat for Austerity

02-12-2015 14:07

When a hospital goes over the brink of operational sanity into the gutter of the market, it is not that one bed of it shuts down after another, but long before that the average time an employee is available to a patient goes down. The overall picture is not so much the cutting of a bundle of flowers out of a reservoir of abundance, but the cutting of a lawn – you can only pluck those daisies before austerity comes through. It is the opposite of healing, where change is expected to take place whose worth is not entirely consumed by the ensuing side-effects or these of the compensations thereof. Austerity, as the term is being used outside the Himalayas, puts shake-up first and the elimination of side-effects later.

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Cambridge March for Affordable Housing (14/11/2015)

18-11-2015 12:37

On Saturday November 14th 2015 a march took place in Cambridge that was very much a sign of the times.

It was a march for affordable housing, in an era of all-time-high property prices and proposed Tory policies to force local authorities and housing associations to sell off at least 25% of their existing stock, despite there being enormous demand for new social housing (approximately 2,500 people in the Cambridge area alone are on the Council's waiting list).

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ALERTA ANTIFA: DEFEND BRADFORD THIS SAT @theqeld @JLRFB @chunkymark #ANTIFA #edl

12-11-2015 20:25

EMERGENCY CALL-OUT IN BRADFORD THIS SATURDAY. ARRIVE MIDDAY OR EARLIER. This is your chance to take to the streets to defend Bradford from facsist invasion as the violent drunken racists of the EDL will be allocated a pub to get drunk and march through the streets of Bradford along Hall Ings, shouting racial abuse at passers-by. Stay at home another week, as Bradford's diverse community needs antifacsist volunteers to defend the city from organised race hate thugs, especially post-march, when the police subside, when they are at their most dangerous.

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URGENT: JAVASCRIPT ERROR - PICTURES NOT UPLOADING -

05-11-2015 20:41

Please fix the problem, admin. Indymedia is once again suffering from a serious JavaScript error where pictures are not uploading.

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The Fifth International

20-10-2015 14:58

It is time, comrades, to announce to the world the formation and existence of a new international.
The first international, the second, third and fourth Internationals have all run their course. Yet, there is now a fifth international, which is very important for people to learn about.

The fifth international is truly international. It is time for people to seriously start to support the League for the Fifth International.

We support Left Unity.

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Stop The Agency Rip Off (Flyer)

18-10-2015 20:19

this a flyer design for a new campaign against the use of employment agencies in the teaching profession, something which is both expensive for cash-strapped schools and colleges, and exploitative of the workers having to use them.

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Can Jeremy Corbyn save the Labour Party?

18-09-2015 22:24

Attached is a recording of a meeting titled "Can Jeremy Corbyn save the Labour Party?" which was addressed by Martyn Mayer, Dominic Riddler and Simon Hardy and was organised by Sheffield Open Socialist Forum and Left Unity, held in the Central United Reformed Church, Sheffield on September 16th 2015.

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Corbyn’s threat of democracy

17-09-2015 10:40

It is delightful to see Labour voters defy the establishment by finally electing a leader on the centre ground of British thinking. Opinion polls suggest that Jeremy Corbyn’s policies of nationalising the railways, energy companies and Royal Mail, along with opposition to the Iraq war and British intervention in the Middle East are all supported by a majority of the public.

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Can Jeremy Corbyn Stem the Tide of Neoliberalism and Militarism?

17-09-2015 10:38

Jeremy Corbyn has won the British Labour Party’s leadership election by a landslide. Corbyn comes from the left of the party, a party that over the past 30 years has shifted further to the right whereby it has become regarded as ‘Tory-light’ – a slightly watered down version of the Conservative Party. Labour has signed up to ‘austerity’, neoliberalism, US-led wars of imperialism and has ditched any commitment to public ownership of key sectors of the economy.

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Handbook for student radicals

02-09-2015 11:53

New publication on student organising! Get it here -

http://studenthandbook.ourproject.org

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Housing Sticker Designs.

29-08-2015 14:56

The attached artwork is intended for downloading and printing.

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Syriza, Podemos, Left Front… May Capital’s Far Left Die!

03-08-2015 14:04

“Communists supposed it… but Syriza surpassed their expectations…”

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Greece after five years in recession. Accelerated poverty in Greece

30-07-2015 11:18

10 January 2015 (the date that this article was written): Greece’s problem is more complicated than austerity, is mainly about poverty, more poverty, accelerated poverty, and then SHAME . 30 July 2015: Greece’s problem is mainly about poverty. A third Greek bailout can help, but the question will stay the same / SHAME: Has Grexit been avoided?

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UG#710 - Facing The Failing Culture Of Control-3 (The Simple Model of Singapore)

18-07-2015 03:16

We have another program in our series on the failing culture of control. Last time we looked at the development of nuclear technology as a result of competition between nation states, this time we look instead at the 21st development of social technology to divide and conquer the world's population. Faced with the organized efforts to misdirect their altruistic impulses of the public at large by terrorizing them and implanting false beliefs, 3 speakers voice their iconoclastic and unwavering dissent.

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The Sotheby's 4 need YOU!

03-07-2015 23:16

All the courageous cleaners and porters – "the Sotheby's 4"– that took part in the protest on Wednesday demanding sick pay and end to trade union victimisation have been banned from site by Sotheby's auction house (aka sacked). Some of them have been working for Sotheby's for over 5 years.

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Meersbrook B&M Bargains Workfare Protest #BandMDayofAction

27-06-2015 17:36

There was a protest outside B&M Bargains on Chesterfield Road, Meersbrook, Sheffield on 27th June 2015 as part of the National Day of Action organised by Boycott Workfare.

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Anti "Austerity" Demo in Cambridge.

02-06-2015 01:43

Last Saturday (May 30th) about 200 local residents marched through the streets of Cambridge united in one goal: an end to "Austerity" politics.

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Workshop recordings from #SheffBookfair

17-05-2015 21:47

Audio from Workshops and discussions at the Bookfair

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IWW Introduction and Prefigurative Politics recordings from #SheffBookfair

16-05-2015 23:26

Attached are two recordings from the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair which was held on 16th May 2015 in the Workstation, the first is a short introduction to the Sheffield Branch of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World)

https://iwwgmbsheffield.wordpress.com/ and the second is a presentation and discussion on Prefigurative Politics and Anarchism.