London Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

21-11-2006 00:45

Photo's: Protest @ Mexican Embassy (20.11.06)

Photo's: Protest @ Mexican Embassy (20.11.06) Read more >>

16-11-2006 15:25

Organising for Fighting Unions: turning anger into workplace activism

Activists gathered in London last Saturday to discuss the kind of trade unions we need today Read more >>

14-11-2006 15:38

CALL FOR ACTION: MIGRANT WORKERS DEMAND JUSTICE

HELP REQUIRED FOR GLOBAL ACTION AGAINST ISS

This is the big push forward to demand Justice for Cleaners: an international campaign for the right of cleaners to organise within ISS - one of the worlds biggest multinational Cleaning Companies.
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13-11-2006 22:10

Metroline Bus Drivers on Strike on 14th November 2006

London faces first bus strike for seven years Read more >>

06-11-2006 16:14

Sweatshops, workers and international solidarity

No Sweat's annual conference takes place in London on 25 November. Read more >>

03-11-2006 00:07

Photos: "Day of the Dead", Mexican Embassy, London. (02.11.06)

Images of a demonstration outside the Mexican Embassy tonight in London. For the dead of Oaxaca on the "Day of the Dead".
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02-11-2006 16:46 | 1 addition

Reports from Oaxaca (and what to do)

Latest updates via irc - and details for action

31-10-2006 11:25 | 1 addition

Photos: Mexican Embassy protest in London (30.10.06)

Police and protesters clash outside the Mexican Embassy in London (30.10.06). The protest was about the US cameraman Brad Will who killed in Oaxaca, Mexican. Read more >>

31-10-2006 10:08

London Anarchist Bookfair 2006 report

Quite a few new titles appeared at the bookfair, here's a few: Read more >>

30-10-2006 21:51

Feminists protest against Tories

On Saturday 21 October, the Feminist Fightback conference at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London attracted over 230 people. On Tuesday 31 October, activists involved with Fightback will be protesting outside the Conservatives' "Shoes, shopping and politics" event to make clear that rich women discussing shoes and how to become Tory MPs is not our idea of women's liberation!

Come and join us! Read more >>

30-10-2006 15:43

LAST FOOTAGE BY MURDERED JOURNALIST TO BE SCREENED ON MEXICAN EMBASSY

First Indications of Government Involvement as Federal Army Troops Move In. IMC London and others to hold solidarity demonstration at Mexican Embassy at 5pm Read more >>

29-10-2006 16:04

Messages from Oaxaca

Messages from Oaxaca About the situation there. Read more >>

20-10-2006 07:36 | 2 additions

Class War's Ian Bone 'Guardian' interview

In the G2 section (pages 10 and 11) of today's Guardian, there is an interview with Ian Bone of Class War fame. Read more >>

12-10-2006 08:03

Transatlantic passenger data deal a capitulation to US demands

Speaking today at the European Parliament in Brussels, German GUE/NGL MEP Sylvia Yvonne Kaufmann attacked the recent EU-US passenger data accord and called for greater protection for passengers' privacy. Read more >>

11-10-2006 10:20

CPP congratulates DPR-Korea for nuke breakthrough

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today congratulated the people and government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for successfully and safely carrying out its first-ever nuclear test and hailed the successful test as a “militant assertion of national sovereignty and the right of an independent country to develop its own powerful self-reliant defense capability amidst constant efforts by the US to impose its imperialist hegemony over the world, maintain its monopoly of nuclear weapons along with a few other powerful countries, and subvert the sovereign will of the DPRK.”

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10-10-2006 19:30

Battle of Cable Street - 70th Anniversary

On Sunday the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, when Londoners massed and denied access to the East End to Masley's fascist blackshirts was celebrated in Cable Street with a parade and fair in the grounds of St Georges Town Hall. Read more >>

10-10-2006 15:56

Olympian Victory for Laing O'Rourke Protesters

Protesters who scaled cranes, at the King's Cross Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) construction site to hang banners in solidarity with an ongoing workers' struggle, successfully appealed convictions for Aggravated Trespass last week, in a two-day hearing at the Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court. Read more >>

09-10-2006 17:33

Feminist Fightback updated agenda

The first Feminist Fightback activist conference will take place at the School of Oriental and African Studies, in London, on Saturday 21 October. Read more >>

09-10-2006 06:52

7th October London - March for Migrants Rights

Coming out of the shadows! - Migrants march for their rights in London Read more >>

07-10-2006 14:35

URGENT: UK Solidarity with murdered Bolivian miners

Over the last two days dozens of miners have been killed or injured defending the Huanuni mine against privatisation, and on Tuesday a general strike has been called. In solidarity with this the BSC has called a picket of UK firm
Grant Thornton on Tuesday 10/10/06 at 12pm to protest at their role in sparking these events. Read more >>