World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

[IT] New law grants amnesty for police violence at the 2001 G8 Summit

Press Release June 25th 2008

- “Race against time”: Court rule against the police in July is now in question
- Protests in Italy and Berlin

British Government should not recognize Burmese military Regime

26-06-2008 13:50 | Other Press | Social Struggles | World

Burma Democratic Concern today called for the British government not to recognize Burmese military regime

4th - 10th July Call to Action

26-06-2008 11:01 | Social Struggles | World

CIVIL LIBERTY IS ABOUT BUILDING A GOOD, JUST SOCIETY
In the context of the coming campaign 4th - 10th July
Haltemprice and Howden, Yorkshire, England

MDC-M youths attack MTC-T rally

26-06-2008 02:47 | Social Struggles | World

Just to show you the sort of people (MDC-T the west is supporting...Notice too: no police repression

MDC-T senator-elect nabbed over violence

26-06-2008 02:43 | Social Struggles | World

What the western press is not reporting:

MDC-T senator-elect for Siyakobvu in Kariba John Malaba has been arrested in connection with violence that left scores of Zanu-PF supporters injured.

Famine killed 7 million people in USA

26-06-2008 02:26 | History | Social Struggles | World

Another online scandal has been gathering pace recently. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, deleted an article by a Russian researcher, who wrote about the USA’s losses in the Great Depression of 1932-1933.

Human Rights Scandal in Austria

25-06-2008 14:16 | Animal Liberation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Non-governmental organisations express concern about what may be a case of state repression of social activism

Anti-Sprawl Direct Action in Montana

24-06-2008 17:30 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

Flathead Valley, Montana, U.S. - A group calling itself Americans Stopping Sprawling Development (ASSD) has taken credit for a rash of incidents involving the removal of surveyor stakes and graffiti that is estimated to have cost developers as much as $20,000 so far.

ROG FACTORY / European Social Center's meeting report tonight at Bowl Court >>>

24-06-2008 17:25 | Free Spaces | Repression | Social Struggles | World

7PM @ Bowl Court
[[An informal report and discussion on the Rog Social Centre in Ljubljana]]

European Social Center's meeting report tonight at Bowl Court >>>
ROG, 20-21-22 June
More information at:

http://tovarna.org

COME ALONG

Helsinki Days of Action for Autonomous Spaces - July '08

24-06-2008 12:18 | Culture | Social Struggles | World

Squatters of Helsinki invite you to Helsinki for five days lasting
actiondays for autonomous freespaces, culture and freedom.

News from the battles for free space in Copenhagen

23-06-2008 17:47 | Free Spaces | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Struggles around free space and squats continue abounds in Copenhagen, Denmark. Not only are there still weekly demos still for the campaign to have a new Youthhouse (Ungdomshuset) but a new extension to the famous squatted Christiania has been occupied with great success. It also looks like the council has given in to pressure from the squatters movement and agreed a new Youth House for the kids!!

Forget Zimbabwe, vote fraud in americas ally Ethiopia

23-06-2008 02:59 | Social Struggles | World

where is the media now?

'Cries of fraud stained the reputation of one of Washington's closest African allies, to whom, according to U.S. defense department figures, the Bush administration sold $6 million worth of weapons to in 2006, more armaments than went to any other African country. The weapons are used in part to aid Ethiopia in its war against Islamic militants based in neighboring Somalia, which Ethiopia invaded in late 2006 and where it remains involved in active combat to this day.'

Blonde ambitions

22-06-2008 23:07 | Education | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The university league tables media frenzy tells us a little bit more about the deep interrelations of interests amongst academia and students, as well as a little bit more on the state of the democratic environment of the universities in the UK and finally refers us to the many associations which should keep an eye on standards and academic freedom in the UK.

All diamonds are still blood diamonds

22-06-2008 16:58 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The movie, the celebrities and the publicity have come and gone. Now the conditions for the people of Sierra Leone are worse than ever. The popular Africanist Movement is struggling to change that.

Quietly and without sorrow: purging the undesireable in a Scientologist world

22-06-2008 14:34 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The Church of Scientology is an international cult founded by science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard. Hubbard was an authoritarian with delusions of power, who sought to have his movement conquer the world and have his teachings form the basis of the new society.

But every utopia has its dissidents, every Eden its snake. And Hubbard was ready for them.

Canada's apology to Native Peoples: 'NOT ACCEPTED'!

21-06-2008 08:55 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Canada's neo-con bushpuppet Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently 'apologized' to Indigenous peoples or did he...? Sorry for Genocide...? Apology 'NOT ACCEPTED'

Campsfield Detention Centre Breakout - 4 humans escape!!

19-06-2008 13:59 | Repression | Social Struggles | Oxford | World

Four immigration detainees who are currently being hunted by police were part of "planned escape", a senior police officer has said.

Beat the G8 system, Enter Fortress Europe!

Saturday 5 July 2008, is the global day of action against the G8. A few days later, the G8 summit in Japan will start. In the Netherlands, you will also be able to help beat the system on that day, by participating in the collective game 'Enter Fortress Europe'. People abroad can also join in...

Repression and Revolt in the run up to G8 Japan

Over the past week and a half, an unprecedented political crackdown has been enacted in advance of a series of economic summits around the country. Despite this, the brave workers of Kamagasaki stood up against the stiff security environment in riots against the brutal beating of a day laborer over the past five days. The twin situations of repression and revolt deserve to be examined in more detail.

CIA Malta Talons Hold Trusts In Golden Triangle

18-06-2008 15:22 | Globalisation | Other Press | Social Struggles | World

EURO-AMERICAN MONEY FUND TRUST - Trust Group 3 of 14 Trust Groups' pooled assets balancing global economies, saw Trust Group 8 - led by Georges Pebereau of BANK INDO-SUEZ - with Günter Berthold Horn as the Western representative for inheritors of Golden Triangle China Triad Family gold bullion and more.