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Support NPL cleaners unfairly sacked!

11-10-2008 10:00

Last week, five Latin American cleaners were unfairly dismissed by the company responsible for the cleaning at the National Physical Laboratory.

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Help stop a school being torn down for "private affordable housing"

11-10-2008 09:42

the old burradon community school. is being tared down to make way for "affordable privet housing" this is an outrage especially with the current finances in ruins

there need to be quick action as demolition has already started to take place but if were quick we can get this turned over and even possibly turned in to a community center as the council prommised

IF YOU ARE INTREASTED IN HELPING PLEASE CALL 07954707433

THIS SCHOOL IS OVER 100 HUNDRED YEARS OLD PLEASE HELP SAVE THIS BUILDING FROM THE GREEDY HANDS OF CAPITALISM

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Subway picket in Belfast in support of sacked worker

11-10-2008 02:52

Organise!, WSM, trade unions and various political activists picketed a Subway restaurant in Belfast today in support of sacked Polish worker Natalia Szymanska.

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Hamburg: Acquittal for alleged Superheroine

10-10-2008 22:46

A few days ago, a Hamburg activist was in court for allegedly having participated in an action against precarity and for distribution. Now she has been acquitted. Here is a report from someone who was at the court case:

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Petition on cconomic crisis: 'buying in instead of bailing out'

10-10-2008 10:55

Please consider signing and distributing

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Around the Campaigns Friday 10th October 2008

10-10-2008 07:01

Let Amdani Juma Stay / Rally in the Market Square
Nottingham, tomorrow Saturday 11th October @ 12.30
Please come down and support us. We need to keep the pressure up and tell the world that Nottingham has not forgotten Amdani. We are expecting the media to be there so bring as many people and banners as possible. Thanks, Friends of Amdani /  stuartbrown236@btinternet.com
 http://www.ncadc.org.uk/archives/filed%20newszines/Newszine88/AmdaniJuma.html

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Class War Classix launch "Introduction to Big Flame"

09-10-2008 21:09

New publishing venture consisting of reproducing old seminal class war publications from interesting groups and traditions.

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Tube cleaners solidarity actions

09-10-2008 10:31

It is very important to support the cleaners at this crucial moment: UK racist immigration laws are being used to crush the cleaners' successful struggle. Three cleaners have been deported, and the employers are carrying out checks on many others: hundreds have received letters sayin their National Insurance number may not be correct.

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Christian Rodrigue Mbianga / Captured Again

09-10-2008 05:30

Christian Rodrigue Mbianga
Christian Rodrigue Mbianga from Cameroon, is currently in detention and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Saturday 11 October 2008 on British Airways flight BA302 @ 06:15hrs to Paris and from Paris to Cameroon on Air France flight AF940.

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Collapse Faster! - Friday 10th, City of London

08-10-2008 16:24

FRIDAY 10TH OCTOBER, 5PM, BANK TUBE

-->THE BANK OF ENGLAND, THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON.

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Please help Kenny Olwole Ogunbowale

08-10-2008 08:14

Kenny Olwole Ogunbowale
Kenny from Nigeria is currently detained in Colnbrook IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK tomorrow Thursday 9th October on Virgin Atlantic Airways flight VS651 @ 22:30hrs from London Heathrow to Lagos, Nigeria.

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Demo by University & College Union, derecognised at Nottingham Trent University

07-10-2008 01:19

On 12:30 on Monday 6th October 2008, staff and students from Nottingham Trent University together with hundreds of UCU members from all around the country held a national rally outside the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham.

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Hamburg: Precarious Superheroes in Court?

06-10-2008 20:19

precarious superheroes

In April 2006, about 30 precarious superheroes took delicatessen from a gourmet supermarket in the German City of Hamburg and distributed them to people who could use them. They also left an invitation for the upcoming EuroMayDay Parade.

The action worked not only as a circulation of luxury goods, but also as a media stunt. The police didn't like it at all and tried to catch the superheroes with lots of vans and a helicopter – in vain [report en]. Some hints as to why the state might think that these superheroes are so dangerous can be found here.

After a house search, the cops thought they had found one of the activists who participated in the action and convicted her in court, based on a perceived similarity between her and a photo of one of the masked superheroes. She appealed, and this Wednesday, she will be in court again. This time, the prosecution based the accusation on the fact that they found documents on her laptop dealing with “precarization”. If this is enough for criminalisation, the main service trade union in Germany must be regarded as criminal, as well as lots of academics and researchers who have been working on the issue of precarity for more than a decade. Let alone Euromayday groups in more than 20 european countries.

Read on for the press release of Euromayday Hamburg, who are supporting the activist in court:

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NCADC Briefing - Your documents Your Rights

06-10-2008 12:26

You are entitled to the originals or copies of every document the Home Office, your solicitor/caseworker issue that concerns your case; it is your right in law.

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Ladbrokes staff strike against pay offer

05-10-2008 20:43

Staff at a Ladbrokes betting call centre on Merseyside are staging a 24-hour walkout in a row over pay.

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Mustafa Belongs to Nottingham

03-10-2008 12:21

Mustafa Abdulrahim Mustafa from Sudan is detained in Campsfield House IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Saturday 4th October on BMI flight BD 997 from Heathrow Terminal 1, @ 13:15hrs, flying to Beirut, and then on to Khartoum

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230 Sheffield steel workers to lose jobs

02-10-2008 20:22

Finnish metals group Outokumpu Oyj said Friday it will close a stainless steel plant in Sheffield, England - laying off all 230 workers - because of oversupply. Its stock surged 14 percent.

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UCU members vote for industrial action at Nottingham Trent University

02-10-2008 19:23

University and College Union (UCU) members at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) have voted in favour of strike action on Tuesday 21 October following attacks on campus unions.

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Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees, September 2008

02-10-2008 07:35

CrisisWatch N°62, 1 October 2008
Ten actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated in September 2008 and two improved, according to the new issue of the International Crisis Group's monthly bulletin CrisisWatch.

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The nature of the Labour Party

02-10-2008 00:14

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