16-09-2007 09:32
Two fatal accidents at construction sites this weekend
A 20-year-old man has been killed on a construction site on Plymouth, just one day after a similar accident took the life of an 18-year-old in Scotland.
10-09-2007 15:08
Socialist Presidential Candidates at America’s Crossroads
Today Americans are faced with a broad range of complex issues not seen since the American Civil War; a war that divided America and created a clash of ideologies. Now, more than 140 years since the end of Civil War, Americans are faced with greater challenges and 11 socialist presidential candidates with Socialist Party USA and Peace and Freedom Party believe a new direction for the nation is critical.
08-09-2007 13:55
Two recent court cases in Glasgow have highlighted weaknesses in the protection offered to employees. As the family of one of the victims' asks: Who says hard work never killed anyone?
Glasgow Employers Getting Away With Murder?
Two recent court cases in Glasgow have highlighted weaknesses in the protection offered to employees. As the family of one of the victims' asks: Who says hard work never killed anyone?
03-09-2007 12:13
On 11 May 2004, nine workers were killed and more than thirty-three injured in an explosion at the ICL Plastics plant of Grovepark Mills in Maryhill, Glasgow. This was the worst health and safety incident in Scotland since 1988. An independent study into the health and safety regime at the factory before the explosion has now been released.
Independent report into ICL plastics disaster finds health and safety regime 'da
On 11 May 2004, nine workers were killed and more than thirty-three injured in an explosion at the ICL Plastics plant of Grovepark Mills in Maryhill, Glasgow. This was the worst health and safety incident in Scotland since 1988. An independent study into the health and safety regime at the factory before the explosion has now been released.
21-08-2007 16:01
Postal workers - let's keep an eye on our leaders!
Scared by a wave of unofficial walkouts at the beginning of August that raised the spectre of an all out post strike, Royal Mail bosses have finally agreed to negotiations with the Communication Workers Union. Reportedly £23 million has been found to help fund pay rises. But the rank and file militants, who led the decisive wildcat strike in Scotland that forced Royal Mail into talks, may still be denied victory. A CWU rep explains the dangers - and the opportunities - in the current stage of the dispute.
20-08-2007 15:41
Social Care workers who struck for twenty consecutive days in Glasgow returned to work last week having won most of their demands.
Glasgow: Social care workers win strike
Social Care workers who struck for twenty consecutive days in Glasgow returned to work last week having won most of their demands.
15-08-2007 15:47
Iraq War: Democrats Will Stay the Course
These days the presidential candidates for the Democratic Party are sounding more like replacement candidates for Bush; on the issue of ending the Iraq War. All the candidates, with the exception of Representative Dennis Kucinich and Governor Bill Richardson, are making open-ended commitments to keep American forces in Iraq and the Middle East region for years.
14-08-2007 02:58
Public school boys keeping the class war alive
Public School condemns 'chav-hunt' spoof
Public school boys keeping the class war alive
10-08-2007 06:12
Jessica at the moment is spiraling into despair, unable despite many attempts, to find a solicitor who will try to reopen her case.
Jessica & Favour Edebiri -another attempt to remove them
Jessica at the moment is spiraling into despair, unable despite many attempts, to find a solicitor who will try to reopen her case.
06-08-2007 22:06
We are a group of workers mostly in the public sector, who met via the libcom.org website who are putting together a bulletin called Dispatch - Public sector pay dispute—information for action. An ad hoc newsletter for the ongoing struggles, mainly in the post office at present, against sub-inflation pay offers.
Dispatch - new workers' bulletin on the public pay dispute - distro help request
We are a group of workers mostly in the public sector, who met via the libcom.org website who are putting together a bulletin called Dispatch - Public sector pay dispute—information for action. An ad hoc newsletter for the ongoing struggles, mainly in the post office at present, against sub-inflation pay offers.
01-08-2007 23:45
Wildcat Posties in West of Scotland
In amongst the planned strikes in Royal Mail this week, posties in & around Glasgow have been taking spontaneous (“wildcat”) action over the last few days. Things are apparently hotting up, with one source saying that management are “stirring things up a bit to divide the workforce”.
03-07-2007 01:40
Immigration Reform Is Needed, After Bush
Stewart Alexander, a presidential hopeful with the Peace and Freedom Party, says, “I believe Congress should work on comprehensive immigration reform after President Bush ends his term in office. I do not believe this important issue should be used as a political football or as a bandage for an administration that is hemorrhaging before the nation and the world.”
13-06-2007 13:38
http://www.ephemeraweb.org. This latest special issue offers a critical engagement with the conceptual and political territory animated by the deployment of such ideas in the work of Hardt, Negri, Lazzarato, Virno and others, and follows previous explorations of class composition and politics in ephemera (for instance in the issues on 'the theory of the multitude' and 'writing: labour').
ephemera 7.1: 'Immaterial and Affective Labour: Explored' online
The new issue (7.1) of ephemera: theory & politics in organization, entitled "immaterial and affective labor: explored," has just been published at http://www.ephemeraweb.org. This latest special issue offers a critical engagement with the conceptual and political territory animated by the deployment of such ideas in the work of Hardt, Negri, Lazzarato, Virno and others, and follows previous explorations of class composition and politics in ephemera (for instance in the issues on 'the theory of the multitude' and 'writing: labour').
12-06-2007 17:23
Turbulence: Ideas for movement (Issue #1 Online Now!)
The articles from the first issue of 'Turbulence: Ideas for movement' are now available to read and download online at: www.turbulence.org.uk
09-06-2007 13:03
Postal workers countdown for strike action
Workers in the CWU across the different sectors of the postal industry have given a massive vote in favour of strike action in a national ballot. The results, announced at the CWU conference in Bournemouth on Thursday 7 June, were a victory for activists, militants and the leadership. If Royal Mail does not change course then picket lines could go up within as little as ten days, on the first national postal strike in eleven years.
04-06-2007 07:39
Wheres cuddly mr clarke been this week?
When not getting cigarettes sold to children in asia as a top man in BAT, Kenneth Clarke Rushcliffe MP & BAT tobbaco magnet is the most regular "democratic" UK member of a shady group of illegal corporate oligarchs.
So Ken why are you smoking cigars at meeting that doesnt exist to most of the mainstream media?
G8 is a "democratic" sham,its a trap & a distraction,
Wheres cuddly mr clarke been this week? When not getting cigarettes sold to children in asia as a top man in BAT, Kenneth Clarke Rushcliffe MP & BAT tobbaco magnet is the most regular "democratic" UK member of a shady group of illegal corporate oligarchs.
So Ken why are you smoking cigars at meeting that doesnt exist to most of the mainstream media?
02-06-2007 02:18
I went to my first prison-support visit today, within spitting distance of God's Country.
Call for a Scottish ABC
I went to my first prison-support visit today, within spitting distance of God's Country.
29-05-2007 13:09
Please contact Air Canada
http://aircanada.com/
Air Canada shipping beagles to European labs
Genocidal campaigns by governments, pharmaceutical companies, university and private labs can be reduced if plane, train, truck, shipping, and bus lines refuse to ship them.Please contact Air Canada
http://aircanada.com/
28-05-2007 15:16
Superfluous and Superheroes of the World: Unite and Take Over!
From 6-8 June, together with thousands of others, as part of the Block G8
campaign, we will cut the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm off from its
infrastructure. The other world – the one we say is possible – will, once
again, be revealed as already here.
Make the G8 Precarious! (FelS G8 Call to Action)
Make the G8 Precarious, Flexi-Fight the New World OrderSuperfluous and Superheroes of the World: Unite and Take Over!
From 6-8 June, together with thousands of others, as part of the Block G8
campaign, we will cut the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm off from its
infrastructure. The other world – the one we say is possible – will, once
again, be revealed as already here.
24-05-2007 21:12
In a great show of solidarity, Eddie Stobart drivers have refused to scab on their Tesco counterparts and deliver supplies to Scottish supermarkets this bank holiday weekend. The 150 Tesco drivers - who supply nearly 100 stores in Scotland - are on strike against the company's outrageous demands.
Truck Drivers Unite Against Tesco In Scotland!
In a great show of solidarity, Eddie Stobart drivers have refused to scab on their Tesco counterparts and deliver supplies to Scottish supermarkets this bank holiday weekend. The 150 Tesco drivers - who supply nearly 100 stores in Scotland - are on strike against the company's outrageous demands.
