Liverpool Social Struggles Newswire Archive

08-05-2009 01:15

Workers' Fightback Update - 8th May 2009

This is the first update for the Workers’ Fightback group. I intend to make them once a week or thereabouts, bringing you the latest from the class struggle frontline, in the UK and elsewhere. Read more >>

03-05-2009 12:11 | 1 comment

Mayday resources

Links to great social movement research books, theory, and magazine. Read more >>

27-04-2009 19:38

May Day Weekend at Next To Nowhere

To mark International Workers' Day - a radical tradition which dates back to the 1886 Haymarket affair (

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair) - the Liverpool Social Centre will be hosting a number of interesting events at 96A Bold Street. Read more >>

27-04-2009 13:42 | 2 comments

Mayday issue 3 launched for Mayday 2009

Mayday magazine is focused upon providing high-quality contributions and practical and theoretical satisfaction - we will do everything we can to meet your expectations.

We really do aim to produce some of the best working class practical theory and theoretical practice - Praxis for short. Read more >>

24-04-2009 12:51

Visteon workers solidarity fundraiser Friday 1st May

Visteon workers solidarity fundraiser Friday 1st May Read more >>

24-04-2009 12:11 | 12 comments

BNP activists assault anti-fascists in Liverpool city centre

BNP Thugs Take to the Streets of Liverpool and Assault Local Anti-Fascists Read more >>

20-04-2009 09:04 | 7 comments

BNP says some members are oddballs, troublemakers and liars

(and perverts, drug dealers and loonies) Read more >>

18-04-2009 10:44 | 5 comments

Smash The Kirkdale BNP.

The prospective BNP councillor Steven Greenhalgh has included his mobile number and email address in his latest mailshot. Read more >>

16-04-2009 15:10

DFEY-NW :: 25th April @ BBC Manchester

DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education and Youth) is a group formed in response from a growing need in the Northwest of England for a group to encourage and promote young people's involvement with the free software community by creating a social space to make it more comfortable for young people to get involved with GLUGs and FSUGs. Read more >>

15-04-2009 13:05

Rent strike for decent environment

Walking tour through Abercromby - an area completely transformed and 'regenerated' by Liverpool University Read more >>

15-04-2009 10:48 | 2 comments

Hillsborough 1989 Remembered

20 years ago I was on the way to a Roy Harper gig in Leeds totally unaware of what was unfolding in Sheffield. Read more >>

13-04-2009 20:15 | 1 comment

Gaza action continues

Liverpool Friends of Palestine were leafleting outside city centre Tesco on Easter Saturday, to encourage shoppers to boycott Israeli goods. Read more >>

04-04-2009 00:18 | 14 comments

BNP's Lie Lorry comes to Lancaster (but not for long)

(Reader report) Read more >>

26-03-2009 18:17 | 1 comment

Public Investment for Private Profit?

How come the corporate media can report the building of a canal in Liverpool City Centre without any analysis of its true meaning? Read more >>

25-03-2009 23:22

John Moores Students Protest Against Cuts

John Moores Vice Chancellor Michael Brown fled a group of 150 angry students and their supporters in his BMW (complete with JMU 1 numberplate) this afternoon. In doing so, he postponed a showdown over his plans to cut thirty-four courses from September. Read more >>

23-03-2009 11:42 | 4 comments

Beyond the G20 London summit

Bourgeois attempts
to channel proletarian struggles on an international scale
and
Invariant struggle
for the proletarian rupture
AGAINST SUMMITS AND COUNTER-SUMMITS Read more >>

17-03-2009 19:59

Nick Griffin to visit Exeter

Oh joy Read more >>

17-03-2009 17:39 | 3 comments

Demonstration against cuts at JMU

demo against cuts forced on staff and students a John Moores University Read more >>

15-03-2009 09:44 | 17 comments

BNP fundraising event attacked

A fundraising event for the British National Party in Leigh, Greater Manchester on Fri 13 March was attacked by anti-fascists. A BNP trailer was totally wrecked, and one BNP activist, Tony Ward, was allegedly attacked with a hammer, requiring hospital treatment. Read more >>

11-02-2009 00:15 | 1 comment

Wirral Council Votes To Slash Services: What Now?

When Wirral Council finally voted to go ahead with the Cabinet's proposed slashing of local services on 9th February, it caused anguish to the hundreds of people who have been campaigning for the last few months. Council employees are now set to lose their jobs at the worst possible time, as a global recession bites. Service users have lost access to libraries, leisure centres, and cultural venues. This terrible attack on ordinary people has shown the limitations of protests, letter-writing campaigns, and pinning hopes on politicians. The need for a new strategy has been highlighted. Read more >>