UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive
Towards Women’s Liberation
22-08-2008 01:27
Deaths at Reykjavik Energy Due to Harsh Circumstances of Low-Paid Foreign Worker
22-08-2008 00:57
John Bowden attack political liberals
21-08-2008 09:58
John Bowden, a long time class war prisoner, is constantly attacked by the prison service and various so called 'libertarians'. Here, he raises interesting questions about the nature of political action for self described 'anarchists', 'liberals', and 'Marxists'.Is politics meant to be a holier than thou search for pure working class positions, which the working class are never part of, or is our politics meant to be for liberation of the working classes?
Worker killed - Fatal Accident Inquiry in Glasgow hears damning evidence
20-08-2008 18:30
The main Health and Safety inspector attending the scene told Glasgow Sheriff Court that the lorry tail-lift that killed Dr Graham Meldrum at Allied Bakeries Glasgow depot in July 2005 was not operational. The lorry should not have been on the road, he stated. The Fatal Accident Inquiry into Dr Meldrum’s workplace death started its fifth week on 11th August, and heard damning evidence of corporate disregard for workers’ safety.Tube workers to strike over harrassment
19-08-2008 11:12
Workers are set to strike over management bullying and the sacking of two colleagues.Uphold the Militant Tradition of International Women's Movement
19-08-2008 05:29
ISS offices visited by RMT and No Borders.
18-08-2008 22:44
The RMT were also joined by No Borders and other supporters who briefly occupied the lobby of the firm. Police were called and those inside where removed. They continued the demonstration outside where they made a hell of a racket for quite some time. One person was arrested for reasons unknown.
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Former NUM Yorkshire Area Executive member's Climate Camp Report
18-08-2008 19:20
Dave Douglass former NUM Yorkshire Area Executive member writes this report of his visit to the so called Climate Camp.Yorkshire NUM website
Tinkerbell, Peter Pan, Cinderella & Alladin arrested in Disney Worker action
17-08-2008 16:53
Ostensibly they had been taking part in continuing trade union action against Disneyland for contracted work, health benefits and so on - so forth.
Class War bookstall in Tynemouth 17th August
16-08-2008 21:50
Sunday 10-4pm, a regional bookfair in North Shields, on the way to Whitley Bay, is taking place. There will be an anarchist and communist bookstall, covering many historical issues, including Labour movement e.g. Durham Miners Association and IWW.Bolivian fascist seperatists attack in Santa Cruz
16-08-2008 17:32
According to reports from TeleSur TV, Garcia Linera has spoken of precise information that such attacks have been planned for the next week in Santa Cruz province and have been orchestrated by the defeated opposition who are using the youth group "Unión Juvenil Cruceñista" and some students from the University of Gabriel René Moreno. They have already attacked public state university departments and national government offices.
Solidarity with Workers in Iran
15-08-2008 11:52
On May Day this year in Iran, two brave women - Sousan Razani andShiva Kheirabadi - participated in open celebrations of the
international workers' holiday.
The regime considers this to be a crime and the women were arrested.
They have just been sentenced to 15 lashes apiece, as well as four
months in prison.
USA: Rep + Dem Convention Mass Protests planned
14-08-2008 17:17
Mass protests are promised from all sorts of protestors at the Republican National Convention: St. Paul, Minnesota in September 1 - 4, 2008 and the Democratic National Convention: Denver, Colorado from August 24 - 28, 2008ISS hits migrant tube strikers; protestors hit ISS
14-08-2008 10:10
Yesterday lunchtime around 30 protestors turned up at the Greenwich offices of multinational cleaning company ISS to protest against the letter sent out by the company to dozens of tube cleaners requesting they come in for a 'document check' that day.No more deaths in custody! - Prisoners Justice Day! London
13-08-2008 00:23
Evo Morales wins Referendum : Bolivian Seperatists set back.
12-08-2008 21:43
The result confirmed that the majority of voters support the project of both Morales and Garcia Linera whislt also confirming the polarisation of anti-Evo sentiments in the east of the Bolivian state.
Bristol Anarchist Bookfair - news update
11-08-2008 16:01
With over a month to go until Bristol’s Anarchist Bookfair, we are already fully booked up with stalls & workshops.
As the current crisis of capital deepens and yet another war (Georgia/Russia) breaks out over land and energy resources, we need more than ever a serious alternative to the chaos of the present world order and the suffering it inflicts upon us. And we need to take the time to properly sit down & chat about it – as equals.
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No more deaths in custody! Pauline Campbell remembered
11-08-2008 10:40
Hands off the MST Brazil! - S African social movements say!!
10-08-2008 15:50
To the poor of the world, to all people of good will who work for progressive changeWe, the landless and homeless people and associated activists of South Africa, decry the secret campaign by the so-called Workers' Party (PT) government of the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul to criminalise, outlaw and otherwise illegitimately harass our landless comrades of the MST.
Diop Olugbala Speaks Out About Obama Protest
09-08-2008 17:42
