World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Press Release from the World Health Organisation

25-01-2004 23:54 | Analysis | Health | Social Struggles | World

(Follow up from:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/01/284021.html)

Inspiration at Budrus

24-01-2004 22:13 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

"This is part of the campaign to isolate Palestinian activists from the outside world and crush their resistance. However, we maintain that Jews who stand against injustice must have equal rights with Jews who support it." IWPS

China Labour Action Express No. 40

23-01-2004 00:09 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Desperate fears over loss of livelihood spur more protests by taxi-drivers in Dazhou, Sichuan Province: Update on detentions

Published by China Labour Bulletin P.O. Box 11362, General Post Office, Hong Kong Fax: (852) 2359 4324 Tel: (852) 2780 2187 Email: bulletin@clb.org.hk Website: http://www.clb.org.hk

Afghanistan: 500 Women March to Register

A sea of blue and white burqas walked one and a half kilometres through the centre of Mazar-I-Sarif in northern Afghanistan today to register for the forthcoming elections.

Basque Country: Arrested before committing a crime

22-01-2004 10:54 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Preventive arrests, arrests with no legal basis
To date, 69 people have been arrested under this new concept

Sara Fernandez, killed by the policy of dispersal.

22-01-2004 10:51 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Izaskun Urkijo was injured in the same crash; she is still in hospital.
Basque prisoners’ relatives and friends have suffered 23 car accidents on their way to visits since last January 12.
This was the third death so far this year. On February 28 Argi Iturralde and Iñaki Balerdi, prisoner Iñaki Balerdi’s mother and father died on the road.
Thousands of people travel long distances over every weekend to visit Basque prisoners

Recent court decisions on torture in Basque Country

22-01-2004 10:47 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The court decrees that blows and insults are not torture and confirmed an absolution of a crime of torture because the injuries were caused during the arrest.

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Mexican Labour Activist Attacked

21-01-2004 16:43 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Martin Barrios, Coordinator of the Human and Labour Rights Commission of the Tehuacan Valley was attacked and brutally beaten by an unknown assailant. Info and call for action.

PEOPLES FORUM AGAINST KILLER COKE

20-01-2004 17:02 | Analysis | Social Struggles | World

IN THE FRAME OF THE WSF IN MUMBAY< PEOPPLES FORUM AGAINST COCA-COLA

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Hunger strike protest in Seven Sisters

17-01-2004 17:19 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

This is a press release on the 27th day of a hunger strike in Seven Sisters, Haringey, London. It is one of a number of similar protests in Europe against prison repression in Turkey. It is to continue for 45 days, and a rally is planned outside the hunger strike tent on Saturday the 24th.

Afghanistan: elections in the North...

A few photos and report from the North of Afghanistan, where a citizen of Oxford is now a UN volunteer.

THE MENTAL HEALTH MOVEMENT : PERSECUTION OF PATIENTS ?

17-01-2004 00:03 | Analysis | Health | Social Struggles | World

Document prepared for the Countess of Mar by Malcolm Hooper, Emeritus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, in collaboration with members of the ME community, Department of Life Sciences, University of Sunderland, SR2 7EE, UK

(For debate in the House of Lords, Thursday 22 January 2004)

ILPS CALL TO ACTION FOR MARCH 20, 2004

13-01-2004 01:47 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Please sign the Online Pledge at

http://www.ilps-news.com/contact/sign-the-pledge/

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) hereby announces its participation in the Global Day of Action and calls on all its more than 250 member-organizations throughout the world and all other organizations and people within their reach to initiate or join protest mass actions on March 20, 2004, the first anniversary of the US-UK invasion of Iraq.

Food not Bombs in Gdansk / Poland

12-01-2004 10:42 | Social Struggles | World

Action takes place every Sunday at the train station of Gdansk - city in north Poland. Video is an short reportage from one of them at 4 of January 2004

Empire strikes out

10-01-2004 18:50 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

First publicated on the trotskyist review Marxism Alive 6

TO STOP FEES, STOP TRIDENT

10-01-2004 16:25 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

Trident costs 1.5 billion squid a year. that could pay for every student in the UK to go to Uni for free. In other words, Blair reckons plotting genocide is more important than my education and the education of students everywhere. Tell your MP to vote NO to FEES, (use www.stopfeesnow.com where it takes 2 secs) and to tell Blair and Clarke they've got their priorities wrong. To Stop Fees, Stop Trident.

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19th day of hunger strike in London

09-01-2004 15:02 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

This is a press release dated January 9, 2004 concerning a hunger strike taking place in Seven Sisters, London. It is in opposition to prison repression in Turkey. The press release also contains details of a knife attack by racists on one of the hunger strikers.

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Palestine: HISTORY and LAND THEFT in DEIR BALLUT

09-01-2004 07:46 | Social Struggles | World

Deir Ballut is an extremely fertile area, with large tracts of waterlogged land being used as the main growth area for summer crops for the entire Salfit region.

ANTHANY DAWSON FACT SHEET - Rose Henry August 2002

09-01-2004 06:51 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

It was at this point that several witnesses report seeing what appeared to be excessive physical violence done to Anthany by police officer(s): “When I saw him being punched it made me feel sick.” It is alleged an officer said, “When I tell you to roll over, you fuckin roll over.” Witnesses also say police appeared to be joking and laughing as they stood behind the ambulance once Anthany had been put inside.

Rank-and-File Movement Wins Election in SEIU Union Local 36

09-01-2004 03:05 | Social Struggles | World

On December 13, members of Local 36 of the 1.6 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the largest in the AFL-CIO and originator of the national "Justice for Janitors" campaign, elected a new president, secretary-treasurer and 23 Executive Board members. This came in the 18th month of a national SEIU trusteeship over Local 36, which represents over 4,300 janitors, building maintenance workers, technicians and professionals in Philadelphia and its suburbs in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.