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Heathrow Express Strike

21-09-2006 11:58

Rail workers on the Heathrow Express went on strike today in a dispute over a pay and conditions.

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Prison Guards Strike On...And Then Off Again!

20-09-2006 21:44

Yesterday morning it was revealed that Liverpool prison officers had voted to go on strike over a below inflation pay offer and changes to their working practices. But last night it was announced that the strike had been cancelled!

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Mischief Makers build giant syringe in support of NHS march on Saturday

20-09-2006 21:18

Community arts and creative activist collective The Mischief Makers have build a giant syringe in support of UNISON's march to 'Defend the NHS' on Saturday. The syringe will read 'Inject more into the NHS' and is made in an effort to show solidarity to NHS workers as well as acknowledging that the ongoing cuts in and privitisation of the National Health Service is something that should concern everyone. The Mischief Makers also hope to add a more creative element to Saturday's march and rally, organised by UNISON, UK's largest union. The march will start from 10.30am on the Forest Recreation Ground. Come along and show your support!

Wikipedia on the Mischief Makers:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mischief_Makers

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Marxists wreck productive body

20-09-2006 19:49

K. Marx and Ricardo states that wages not depend on production but in necessaries that tippify a slavery society not a mercantil systm. This conducts a marxists in govern to destroy productive system and to serve as clerks of financier capital.

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Nestlé, York, the Philippines and the boycott

20-09-2006 17:40

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Nestlé has just announced lay offs in York. Meanwhile in the Philippines trade unionist five years into a strike prepare to mark the first anniversary of the assassination of their leader. Nestlé was wining and dining trade unionists at the TUC a little over a week ago and is sponsoring a fringe meeting at the Labour Party Conference on Monday. As with the baby milk issue, it puts its own profits first while engaging in PR to divert criticism.

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What Future for Haiti? An Interview with Patrick Elie

20-09-2006 15:42

A new grassroots movement will have to form that comes from the street and grassroots mobilizations. Lavalas is this movement, but Lavalas and Fanmi Lavalas, although related, are different things. Fanmi Lavalas is a political organization. Lavalas is a political philosophy, not a party. Lavalas and the popular movement are one in the same. It was the name coined for it by President Aristide. But he did not invent the reality of it, he just put a name on it. He doesn’t own it. It owns him.

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Battle for Spain

20-09-2006 13:36

Interesting book review on the Spanish Civil War

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Day 16 of Mersey Fire Strike: Authority Claims "positive and constructive" Talks

19-09-2006 01:19

After two days of public silence from both sides in the Merseyside fire dispute, the Fire Authority is claiming they have made progress in their talks with Merseyside FBU.

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Work Above Everything

18-09-2006 12:36

Capitalism at the start of the 21st century set out to realize the utopia of a life without work-and cannot face this fact-because of its own inner pressures. Reducing working hours is crucial for lowering unemployment. Creating a social net, e.g. universal health care and subsidized housing, is a precondition for sharing work.

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Nottingham Trade Union Solidarity - Issue 5

17-09-2006 11:25

This issue of the newsletter includes articles on the merger of QMC and City Hospitals and the RMT sponsored Trade Union Freedom Bill.

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Day 13 of Mersey Fire Strike: Negotiations Continue Following Rally

16-09-2006 18:40

Following yesterday's massive march and rally in Liverpool, Merseyside FBU secretary Les Skarratts was back at the negotiating table today, knowing that thousands of people are behind his union's efforts to prevent fire service cuts.

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Day 12 of Mersey Fire Strike: Massive March and Rally in Liverpool

15-09-2006 19:52

Assembling in Myrtle Street
Around five thousand firefighters from around the country joined campaigners and members of the general public in Liverpool this afternoon, to show their support for Fire Brigades Union strikers on Merseyside.

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NUS Disabled Students Campaign are backing the Disabled Peoples' and CARWB lobby

15-09-2006 16:11

Hi some very good news, the National Union Of Students (NUS) Disabled Students Campaign are backing the Disabled Peoples' and CARWB 'Welfare-Reforms' protest in Manchester, on Monday 25/9/06 and they wish to be added to the growing list of groups endorsing the Coalition:. apparently they already have policy on this.

WILL YOU BE THERE TOO???

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Maghull Meeting Debates NHS Sell-Off

14-09-2006 21:04

Some 200 local people packed the public meeting in Lydiate, near Maghull
last night called by KONP Merseyside in response to the threatened privatisation of GP services in Sefton East Parishes.

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Day 11 of Mersey Fire Strike: Desperate Authority Makes False Accusations

14-09-2006 20:19

With firefighters continuing to hold firm against the Fire Authority’s media manipulation and intimidation campaigns, and a public rally supporting the FBU scheduled for tomorrow, the Fire Authority have resorted to making obviously false accusations against the union and strikers.

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Future Prospects for the Young Generation

14-09-2006 12:15

The social contract of modern times based on lifelong full-employment in paid work is broken.. We produce with Bill Gates and distribute with Bismarck. We have a hundred-year distribution deficit.. After 200 years, we need a new social contract making possible a new reconciliation of work and life for men and women adapted to the way of life of nature.

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SYNDICALIST group FORMING in carmarthen/CAERFYRDDIN cymru

14-09-2006 10:33

carmarthen/SIR GAR anarcho-SYNDICALIST network>>> new GROUP forming. text messages INITIALLY to 07981393616

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Day 10 of Mersey Fire Strike: Yet More Strike Dates Promised

13-09-2006 21:18

Eight more strike dates were announced this evening, which are scheduled to take place from 20th September. Meanwhile, it seems that the solid strike has finally forced the Fire Authority back to the table.

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Nestlé at the TUC - protests in the Philippines and Japan

13-09-2006 12:23

While Nestlé was trying to wine and dine delegates at the Trade Union Congress on Sunday trade unions in the Philippines and Japan were campaigning for Nestlé to respect court rulings on workers' rights.

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Take Action to Support Striking South African Cleaners!

12-09-2006 21:12

Hold Multinational Corporations Accountable for Cleaners’ Poverty Wages!

On September 13th, cleaners and supporters in New York, London, Hamburg,
Sao Paolo, the Hague, Sydney, Chicago, Boston and other cities will take
action to support South African office cleaners who have been on strike
for more than one month.