UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive
Film on Murray Bookchin
24-05-2012 14:37
http://www.indiegogo.com/Bookchin?c=home
Oppression and Fashion
24-05-2012 12:46
Abour the mainstream fetish of consumerism and fashionFull article | 1 addition | 5 comments
Quebec Student Revolt - Request for Solidarity
21-05-2012 23:52
Request for solidarity and support for the Legal Committee of the CLASSEWe write you during a dark time for democratic, human and associative rights in Quebec with the following appeal for your help and solidarity. As you have no doubt heard, the government recently enacted legislation that amounts to the single biggest attack on the right to organize and freedom of expression in North America since the McCarthy period and the biggest attack on civil and democratic rights since the enactment of the War Measures Act in 1970. Arguably, this recent law will unduly criminalize more law-abiding citizens than even McCarthy's hearings and the War Measures Act ever could.
University of Birmingham Guild Officers condemn appointment of Lord Mayor
21-05-2012 20:51
Final callout for June Events - Blacklist
21-05-2012 12:22
Final callout for JUNE EVENTS FOR THE BLACKLIST LONDONOld Age Pensioners Anti Monarchists
21-05-2012 09:37
Three old age pensioners asked to leave cafe for refusing to stand for the Queen of England.Barnados targetted in Oxford over role in child detention
21-05-2012 00:08
A group of protesters visited the Barnados shop on Cowley Rd in Oxford this weekend tochallenge them about the charity's involvement in locking up children and families.
Sorry for the corporate-press-release style and tone.... didn't have time to write a more down-to-earth report as well as a press release! A video of the action is being edited and will be up in the next few days.
Authoritiarian capitalism bears its teeth - Blockupy Frankfurt as it happened
20-05-2012 06:40
Critical Legal Thinkings operatives have been in Frankfurt to blog the astonishing police crackdown that has been going on. Read our liveblog of the events, and see our photos and links at our website.An Economy for the 99%
19-05-2012 15:16
Huge Student Protests in Canada
19-05-2012 09:14
Quebec's provincial government has passed an emergency law restricting demonstrations and shutting some universities as the government seeks to end three months of protests against tuition fee increases. Outraged students reacted by calling it an act of warAmazing You Tube video -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0tfvSZkcc
Palestine Place is Coming to London (June 2012)
18-05-2012 16:59
An act of solidarity and resistance will soon implant itself in the heart of the capital. From June 2nd Palestine Place will engulf one of London's great wasted spaces and transform it into a base for workshops and actions in support of Palestine.For more info see:
http://palestineplace.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Palestine-Place/220970991348655
Message from recentley released Antifascist Ravi Gill
17-05-2012 03:53
I just hope this can even show 1% for the love I feel for those who supportted me, I'll never forget you and love you always. NO PASARAN!Mexico: Demand Grows for Release of Chiapas Schoolteacher
16-05-2012 20:17
May 15-22 “Week of Global Struggle for the Liberation of AlbertoPatishtán Gómez and Francisco Sántiz López,”
Fri 18 May, London: Solidarity with South Indian Anti-Nuclear Peoples' Movement
15-05-2012 12:05
Defend the right to Democratic protest Against Nuclear Power in Tamil Nadu, IndiaNO NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN KOODANKULAM!
Picket the High Commission of India, Aldwych, London WC2B
Friday 18 May 2012 4.00pm - 7.00pm
called by South Asia Solidarity Group, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Foil Vedanta & South West Against Nuclear (SWAN)
antifascist action updates, Athens (Greece)
14-05-2012 16:27
news from struggle in Athens against fascism & racismThe Left, Labor and Occupy
14-05-2012 04:32
Barely half a year after it burst on the scene, the Occupy Wall Street movement is splintering left and right. This was inevitable in a movement that was united only in what it opposed and could never put forward a positive program, whether of reformist "demands" on the capitalist state or of revolutionary action against it. Liberals, who latched onto Occupy hoping it could pressure the Democratic Party in a more populist direction, want to expel "black bloc" anarchists. Reformist social democrats rail against "ultraleftists" in Occupy and cozy up to the labor tops. On the other side, many (but not all) anarchists oppose unions. Some are simply arrogant petty-bourgeois labor haters. Others are grappling with real problems, but with skewed analysis and dead wrong conclusions. Discussion of recent workers' struggles, from Wisconsin to West Coast longshore, underlines that the key question is leadership, but not just replacing one set of bureaucrats with another. Unions have always faced vicious anti-labor laws, but we have the power to defeat them. It is necessary to drive out the pro-capitalist bureaucracy, the labor lieutenants of capital, in order to turn the unions into instruments of revolutionary class struggle.
