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Cambridge Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

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30-11-2009 02:40

The Free Shop strikes again!

Free Shop version 2.0...no updates required. Once again, this Saturday (28-11-2009) the Free Shop was set up in front of Primark in Cambridge to spread the word about more sustainable lifestyles, and highlight just quite how bad some High Streets store's practices actually are!

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09-11-2009 02:39

Constructing cultures of resistance

Free Derry - a community of resistance A member of Cambridgeshire Anarchists on creating communities of resistance. This is an individual’s perspective and does not necessarily represent the opinion of the whole group.

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01-11-2009 18:18

Support the posties strike!

As you will probably know the postal workers have been taking industrial action to save their jobs, pensions and the postal service itself. Cambridge anarchists have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to support our fellow workers in their struggle.

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30-10-2009 15:51

Another night on the Royal Mail picketline...

Another night on the picketline...

Another week of broken promises and recriminations over the negotiating table for the UK postal service and it's workers on the frontline.

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24-10-2009 01:02

Pictures of Pedal Powered Picketline (22-10-2009)

On a cold Thursday night in the twenty first century, I found myself a part of a situation that my parents would have remembered from their own youthful years back in the 1970s - on a picket line, with the guts of an old Washing Machine providing the heat, in the absence of Brazier as was used back in the day.

This time it was because postal workers, in disgust at the way their management and the government has been treating them decided to walk out en masse from the depot on the Clifton Road Industrial Estate for two days.

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19-10-2009 11:48

Royal Mail strike breakers!

Royal Mail is attempting to break the strikes!

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05-10-2009 07:40

Does A4e recommend ending Incapacity Benefits?

A4e are among the private companies that Cameron and Brown have employed to come up with the conclusion that a billion pounds worth of cuts can be made by shifting the disabled onto job seekers. This will be hailed as a brand new policy at the Tory Conference.

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04-10-2009 06:13

A4e propose new benefits delivery system

The CJS Dynamic Benefits report outlines a scheme to abolish all benefits and replace them with two. All surpluses from abolished benefits will be channelled to service providers in a bonanza of Corporate Welfare. Unsuprisingly the report was written by former A4e and Lloyds Directors. It will be Tory Policy at the next election.

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01-10-2009 19:33

Anarchist freesheet The Leveller #2

The second issue of anarchist free-sheet The Leveller has been published.

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30-09-2009 20:41

Cambridge Unemployed Workers Union founded

Unemployed Workers Union (UWU) started in Cambridge to fight for improved welfare conditions.

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13-09-2009 15:49

Calling all unemployed!

UWU Flyer Unemployed people in Cambridge need a fighting union to resist attacks by the government like the Welfare Reform Bill and the humiliating New Deal schemes.

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11-09-2009 13:52

Solidarity with Train Drivers

Support the ASLEF train drivers striking for fair conditions and respect.

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04-09-2009 12:17

Cambridge Anarchists at London Climate Camp 09

Reflections and criticisms of this years Climate Camp outside London.

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04-05-2009 16:29

Mayday & police brutality march in Cambridge

Looking at literature A few people gathered for a march around market square in Cambridge to celebrate Mayday. After the rally some went to the police station to put down some flowers in memory of Ian Tomlinson -- murdered by the police at the G20.

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15-04-2009 21:56

MAYDAY

The Industrial Workers of the World (Cambridge) will mark May Day, the International Workers Day, by hosting a celebratory gig at the Man on the Moon pub, Norfolk St., Cambridge. Music will start at 7:30pm and we will be asking for £3/£5 on the door.

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17-02-2009 14:00

Cambridge University Press -- Save Jobs march

Cambridge university press is closing its printing facilities, and sacks all its workers there, and some on the editorial side. A match was organized on the 14th Feb 2009 to protest again these closures.

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10-09-2008 14:02

Campaign for a New Worker's Party - Public Meeting

With the 3 main parties being representatives of big business and with the economy spiralling out of control there is a crisis in political representation for ordinary people. The Campaign for a New Workers Party is hosting a meeting to discuss the way forward. Come and join the debate.

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10-07-2008 22:34

Public service Strike 16-17th July and rally at Guildhall on 16th

From Cambridge evening news, plus article on wage increases and inflation - anyone know the time of the rally?

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08-04-2008 18:49

Stop Slashing The Blood Service!

iww Protest at the NBS bosses' HQ

Assembly point: Watford Junction Station
Friday 11th April 2008, 12pm

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08-01-2008 11:00

IWW and friends callout to protest Blood Service cuts

As part of its ongoing fight to prevent massive cuts in the National Blood Service, the IWW is calling for a demonstration on Thursday 10th January at the NBS Management meeting in London.

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