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UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

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Careers Development Group

27-11-2007 18:42

Careers Development Group is one of the training groups Brown want to send the unemployed under New Deal for the unemployed. Is he taking the piss?

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41% of Posties Accept Stitch-Up Deal/Motion Carried

27-11-2007 17:06

64% of those postal workers who voted have accepted the stitch-up 'settlement' offer from Royal Mail bosses. However, there was only a 64% turnout. So after weeks of strike action, lost pay and backstabbing from Communication Workers Union bureaucrats, the original contract proposed by Royal Mail will go through practically unaltered, despite the fact that 59% of posties still refuse to back it.

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"fascists4free speech" are like homicidal peadophiles for childcare,oxymoronic

25-11-2007 16:57

If Nazis got into power they would abuse debate, then kill it
Why is the Oxford Union legitimizing,giving a platform& trying to make nazi apologisers champions of free speech?
If they dont want to extol Nazis views why did they invite 2 nazi apologisers to discuss free speech instead of Zapatistas,anarchists, activists from China or other popular activists with less access to mass media outlets?

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Leeds support sacked nurse

25-11-2007 15:07

Leeds Keep Our NHS Public, Leeds UNISON, CWU and NUT members allturned out in support yesterday for Karen Reissman In Manchester. Karen has been victimised and sacked from her job as a Community Psychiatric Nurse for speaking out against cuts and closures. Her colleagues are now on all out strike for her reinstatement and need solidarity and support.

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Ken Loach & NoBorders in Crawley Tuesday 27th November

25-11-2007 13:09

On Tuesday 27th November, renowned filmmaker Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Sweet Sixteen, Kes) is coming to Crawley to show and talk about his new film "It's a Free World...". This film is a drama about a single mother and depicts the reality of living and working in the UK as a so-called illegal immigrant.

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Australia Votes The Lying Rodent and other Bastards Out

25-11-2007 12:27

The Australian Labor Party (ALP) were elected in a landslide win in the Australian Federal election on Saturday, November 24. The 'bastards' of the Liberal and National party coalition Government have been voted out. And the Prime Minister, John Howard, once called by a Liberal Party colleague 'the lying rodent', is likely to lose his own seat in the swing against the conservatives, only the second Prime Minister to do so in Australia's short political history since federation in 1901.

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Bush Ally Howard Defeated

25-11-2007 08:34

New Austrian Liberal Prime minister Kevin Rudd, who defeated PM Howard in the Australian General Election and vociferous opponent of former Prime Minister Howard’s controversial Labour Laws, has pledged to Sign the Kyoto treaty and Withdraw from Iraq. Accused of attempting to introduce a fascist police state in Austrian, Howard might even lose his own parliamentary seat after the full count is comleted.

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Campsfield IRC Anniversary demonstration / Saturday 24 November 2007

24-11-2007 19:58

Mafungesi Maikokera, left of group
Fourteen years too long! Close Campsfield!
Close all detention centres! Stop all detentions and deportations!
For freedom of movement and the right to stay!

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Building Worker newsletter - Autumn 2007

24-11-2007 17:02

The Autumn 2007 issue of the newsletter of the UK Rank & File Building Workers' Committee. Articles on organising site workers ahead of the olympics, making sure holiday pay is claimed, a recent strike against racism and the dangers of trusting union officials.

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How eco are Ecotown built by opencast mining companies?

23-11-2007 13:19

So The ministry of Truth want a ecotowns built by opencastminers like H J Banks ltd & councils like nottingham city are spending tax payers money to susidise incinerators owned by billionaire Guy hands of WRG because of contracts made decades ago before toxic emissions were known.

what next? will they employ the bnp as equal ops consultants?,

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Film "The Price of Sugar" Documents Haitian Workers in Bateyes

22-11-2007 12:20

A still from The Price of Sugar
The Price of Sugar is a powerful documentary about the plight of Haitians toiling on sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic. These workers cross the border from Haiti to labor in conditions that the film's central protagonist, Father Christopher Hartley, calls "quasi-slavery." They are housed in sugar company towns called bateyes. Stripped of identification papers, they cannot legally travel elsewhere in the country.

Hartley is a Spanish priest who came to the Dominican Republic in 1997 and wound up advocating for the cane cutters in his parish. The film gives him plenty of time to voice a thorough, articulate critique of the system which exploits the Haitians. Hartley names the superrich Vicini family as controlling the bateyes; the Vicinis have taken legal action against the film to prevent it from being screened.

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France: More workers join strikes + student struggles

21-11-2007 19:34

Hundreds of thousands of health workers, civil servants, printers postal workers and air traffic controllers yesterday joined transport and energy strikes over pensions and pay. Thousands joined street protests in Paris, Rouen, Strasbourg, Marseille, Grenoble, Lyon and other cities

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France: The workers must take the struggle into their own hands!

20-11-2007 18:08

Seldom has trade-union unity been so great in the country: almost all the trade unions, including the most collaborationist, call for an indefinite strike at the SNCF, because of the determination and combativeness of the workers!
But what objective does this united leadership set for the struggle to come? In 1995 the objective was clear: total withdrawal of the Prime Minister Juppé plan against the pensions. Today what is the objective of this trade-union unity?
Total withdrawal of the new attack against the pensions?

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EMERGENCY BROADCAST - America is Seriously Wrong

20-11-2007 15:19

Color of Law?

Look, families are threatened with arrest for not agreeing
to cause neurological brain damage to their children. The cause
for why their children are not in school, is not the parents
fault, but the unlawful decision by the health authority to
not allow the children in school.

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Huge strikes in France and Germany

20-11-2007 13:02

German train drivers on strike
Since about one week huge strikes in France and Germany.
German railway workers didn´t work last week and said, if their demands will be not taken seriously they will go on striking until next year.
French railway workers are also on strike since one week, as well as French teachers will be this week. French students are also on strike and occupied and blockaded up to now 56 of ca. 80 universities. They fight against social cuts (so called "reforms") planned by the Sarkozy government.

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Socialism and feminism: an unhappy marriage? forum

19-11-2007 15:05

A public meeting/workshop exploring the relationship between socialism and feminism, between class struggle and women's liberation.

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Past their fly by dates

15-11-2007 13:22

Meltem Avcil
The Home Office doesn't always have it their way, when it comes to deporting people from the UK

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Hamedullah Hassani Must Stay

15-11-2007 13:17

Hamedullah Hassani
Hamedullah, is currently in Oakington Immigration Removal Centre and is to be removed from the UK on Tuesday 20th November, by 'Charter flight Ravel'. 'Ravel' is the operational name for the Home Office regular deportation flights to Afghanistan.

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'Hands Off Iraqi Oil' speaker tour - Monday 19th Nov - University of Birmingham

14-11-2007 11:31

The 'Hands off Iraqi Oil' speaker tour comes to Lecture Theatre G33, School of Education, University of Birmingham on Monday 19th November @ 6pm.

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Buses To Karen Reissman Demo In Manchester

14-11-2007 03:26

Merseyside TUC has booked a double decker bus which holds 77 people
for the above demo. Tickets are only £1 return from Lime Street to
St Peters Square Manchester. (Leaving from the Empire Theatre Lime
Street at 11.30.a.m. and leaving Manchester at 4.30.p.m.
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