UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive
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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.
International Tribunal to investigate the mass genocide of prisoners
20-05-2012 19:38
Thousands of political prisoners been killed as a 'enemy of God ' under ' Islamic Law'
“Iran Tribunal” aims to raise the awareness of the international community and the civil societies by exposing the horrific magnitude of this human tragedy.
Nigerian Doctors Strike
18-05-2012 14:02
Reflections on the Lagos state government’s onslaught on doctorsA recent crackdown on doctors in Nigeria is symptomatic of a wider state attack on the working class.
The Caravan for Climate Jobs is in Sheffield
18-05-2012 13:05
http://www.sheffieldrenewables.org.uk/ the driver of the van, Solar Active, http://new.solar-active.com/ and the Sheffield Campaign Against Climate Change https://sites.google.com/site/scaccweb/
Policing the Crisis Today - New pamphlet
16-05-2012 09:27
We had 'Pop sociology', well now we've got punk criminology! This could be an early contender for the pamphlet of the year award?“Policing the Crisis Today”, 44 pages, printed in A5 and A4 sizes
Published by Cl@ss War Classix; Mayday 2012, £1, ISSN 2042-048X
The Wobblies - Free film - Wednesday at the Cowley Club, Brighton
15-05-2012 07:50
The 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.Anti-Authoritarianism Today and Yesterday
11-05-2012 19:35
Meeting on the forthcoming celebration in August of the founding of the Anti-Authoritarian InternationalArgentina: Que Se Vayan Todos! – They All Must Go!
09-05-2012 12:21
What is to be done when capital and government abandon the people? It is a question that social movements throughout Europe and the US have begun to raise with a creative political militancy unseen in decades.May Day in Berlin - It's Raining Rocks (Again)
06-05-2012 13:52
Twenty-five years after the original May Day riots in Kreuzberg, a ritualised confrontation with the police leaves the streets littered with cobblestones and broken glass.Spirit of May Day Flickers Back to Life
03-05-2012 10:07
Peter Tatchell joins Bradley Manning contingent on Mayday march
03-05-2012 08:19
Whistleblowers meet in Denbigh as part of Bradley Manning solidarity tour
03-05-2012 07:20
May Day in the Philippines
03-05-2012 06:27
Celebrate 40 years of Black Power media - tune in May 5-6 to Uhuru News live
02-05-2012 14:59
Where We Stand : Formation of a new anarchist communist project in the UK
01-05-2012 11:14
May Day statement of "Collective Action". In it we outline our analysis of the problems facing the anarchist movement in the UK and offer a call out to all independent anarchist communists to participate in our project to re-visit our political tradition, re-group and re-kindle our political action.Anti-Fascist OAPs Attacked by Far Right
30-04-2012 20:27
The forgotten anti-fascist Olympics Games
23-04-2012 08:51
How many remember this? April 20, 1914: The Ludlow Massacre
20-04-2012 23:35
The Ludlow Massacre was an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914.The Ludlow Massacre was a watershed moment in American labor relations. Historian Howard Zinn has described the Ludlow Massacre as "the culminating act of perhaps the most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history". Congress responded to public outcry by directing the House Committee on Mines and Mining to investigate the incident. Its report, published in 1915, was influential in promoting child labor laws and an eight-hour work day.
They Took the Air out of the Life Jacket – A Report From a Workfare Attendee
19-04-2012 17:11
http://www.boycottworkfare.org/ If you are on, or have been on the work programme, or one of the other workfare schemes, please get in touch with us, anonymously if you want, and let us know what happened and whether it was useful to you. email
BirminghamAgainstTheCuts@Gmail.com or comment on this post. At our demonstrations we’ve had many people stop and talk to us telling us that workfare did not help them, and the more of these stories we can publicise, the more pressure there is on the government to scrap the scheme and stop the providers profiteering from the taxpayer.
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Workers Day Wolverhampton May 1st 2012
19-04-2012 16:16
