UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive
Migrant Workers Strike against Poverty Wages and WTO
17-12-2005 05:55
SuperSizeMyPay.Com campaign co-ordinator, Simon Oosterman said that the strike was a part of international protests against the meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Hong Kong and the global fight for economic justice.
Education Not for Sale website
16-12-2005 16:44
The Education Not for Sale website has been overhauled and updated, and includes lots of new material for student campaign activists.London Wobblies Celebrate and Plan
16-12-2005 15:52
Fisherfolks Murdered By Drowning, Suspect 6th WTO
15-12-2005 15:38
HONGKONG-- A proposal of rich countries to open the markets of less developed nations to their non-agricultural products like fish, the Philippines' 1.8 million small fishermen-and Southeast Asia's 12 million-could drown in a sea of imports from the likes of China and Japan.Insurgent Zombies Occupy Paris Supermarket in WTO Protest
15-12-2005 10:16
After December 15, Iraq will be at mercy of US corporations
14-12-2005 18:21
If George W. Bush's policies on Iraq are mystifying, fret not -- there's a method to his organized chaos after all.WTO - HK05 - Images of Resistance
14-12-2005 17:30
Victory for the Irish Ferry Workers?
14-12-2005 12:32
A list of sites with news on the WTO protests. (with links)
13-12-2005 18:44
Its not comprehensive but there is alot thereSites with reports and actions as well as some background info
anti wto HK site
13-12-2005 17:01
Philipinos protest WTO
13-12-2005 16:57
" It is not and has never been an institution that had the betterment of the working peoples' welfare as its agenda..." WTO disputed in Philippine Congress. (Dec 6)
Resist! Spokesperson and Bayan Muna Representative Teddy Casino today questioned in Congress the Philippines' continuing membership in the the World Trade Organization (WTO). "The W TO is not by any stretch of the imagination an estbalished or elected government; but from the way it conduct itself, it has become the most powerful pseudo-legislative and judicial body in the world," he said.
KONG YEE SAI MAU! - Protest against the WTO!
13-12-2005 14:28
Reports direct from WTO protests.Globalise Resistance are in Hong Kong and posting
Venezuela Film Showing tomorrow evening at the MAC (Tuesday 13th)
12-12-2005 13:24
The film 'The Revolution will not be Televised' will be showing on Tuesday at 7.00pm at the Midlands Arts Centre. It is about the failed coup in Venezuela in 2002 with apparent US support.Call for solidarity action in support of striking gate gourmet workers in german
11-12-2005 17:53
Global Capitalism Requires Global Resistance - Call for SolidarityAction on the 17th of December at all Gate Gourmet Locations World-Wide
Oxfordshire Social Enterprise Forum: Supporting Social Enterprise in Oxford
08-12-2005 23:34
OSEF is back. The Oxfordshire Social Enterprise Forum’s Executive Committee is holding a celebratory re-launch event from 4.15 to 6.30pm on Wednesday December 14th at the Said Business School, Oxford University, Park End Street, Oxford.
Alt-publishing & Google Books
07-12-2005 10:43
A simple google book search for -a | the | and | but | of | on | from
...enables you to see most of the pages of copyrighted books including books published by small alternative publishers eg. AK Press.
Furious Gate Gourmet workers march in Southall
06-12-2005 22:43
Previously the workers had marched chanting vitriolic slogans about Gate Gourmet and British airways. Now their condemnation also targets their own trade union the T&G and its leader Tony Woodley. TUC chief Brendan Barber is also in the frame for selling them out.
PHILIPPINES: The unraveling of Gloria
06-12-2005 07:06
The assassination of seventy-two leftwing activists during the presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has hardly produced a ripple of indignation abroad and no more then the usual hackneyed statements of protest at home. After all, the world is focused on human rig