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UK Globalisation Newswire Archive

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Super Depression: Ernst Bloch and international workers class struggle

24-04-2009 21:55

In this epoch of emancipation, of Global Depression: Workers of the world capture this decisive historic fleeting moment of global class struggles!

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Tamil Hunger Strike Day 18 London - pictures.

24-04-2009 20:34

The hunger strike, Day 18.
As the people of the United Kingdom reel from the news that the British Labour government have lost functional control of the British wartime economy, Mr Subramaniyan reaches day 18 of his hunger strike outside the Parliament building.

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Police caught on tape trying to recruit protester as spy

24-04-2009 17:47

Plane Stupid climate change activist taped men who offered cash for information about group's members and activities
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/24/strathclyde-police-plane-stupid-recruit-spy

* Paul Lewis
* guardian.co.uk, Friday 24 April 2009 18.18 BST

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Indians blockade main Amazon tributary - 24 April 2009

24-04-2009 17:28

A large number of Indians have blockaded one of the Amazon’s main tributaries, the Napo River, in response to the violation of their rights by oil companies and Peru’s government.

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Coca Cola Crisis in India (by Latuff)

21-04-2009 18:26

Coca Cola is guilty of destroying livelihoods of thousands of people in India
I made this cartoon for the India Resource Center, campaign to hold Coca Cola accountable. Thousands of farmers in India have been affected by Coca Cola's practices, and Coca Cola is guilty of destroying the livelihoods of thousands of people in India:  http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/index.html

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Relief Forecast for British Economy

21-04-2009 16:23

cisis
The economic recession could be slightly relieved by the second half of this year, but that comeback will be slow and fragile announced the Board of the Confederation of British Industry. The economy of Great Britain entered into a crisis during the last quarter of 2008 with an increase in the rate of unemployment, falling housing prices and cuts in industrial exports.

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Tamil Blockade of Parliament, London - pictures.

21-04-2009 00:11

The Hunger Striker.
As the Tamil Hunger Strike reaches day 14 and over 1,100 Tamils are massacred in a single day in Sri Lanka by the Sri Lankan military, thousands of Tamils gather in London to step up the pressure on the British government by blockading the British Parliament building as MPs return from their Easter break.

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European call for a counter summit in Louvain against the Bologna process

19-04-2009 13:00

« THE WORST ENEMY OF KNOWLEDGE IS NOT IGNORANCE BUT THE ILLUSION OF KNOWLEDGE »

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Pirate Bay Verdict: Why Does SWEDEN Persecute its Citizens?

19-04-2009 04:03

Boston Tea Party: about taxation w/o representation. What about Microsoft Tax?

To kiss up to the United States of course, but read on.

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Fund Traders Association - Financial Derivatives

18-04-2009 20:54

Financial Newsletter 2009 - The Bigger Picture

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Pirate Bay case exposes corporate greed

18-04-2009 18:35

The Pirate Bay case has proved to be a massive own goal for the entertainments industry, serving to expose to the world their naked greed. Have they never heard of the McLibel trial?

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Pirate Bay

17-04-2009 16:26

Pirate Bay has been closed down, the founders hit with heavy fines.

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Education and Capitalism

16-04-2009 01:04

Louvain 2009
On the 28th and 29th, of April in Louvain and Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium the bi-annual ministerial conference of the Bologna processes will be reassembled "to assess the progress achieved and the new steps to be taken" and to give feedback on university reforms already on their way. Did they ever ask students, teachers and researchers, workers and staff of Europe? In addition to the ministers of education, consulting members such as Business Europe (european patronal organisation) and the ESU (european student union) will be present to evaluate this process.

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Video Camera`s are cheap on ebay

14-04-2009 23:20

Given the fallout from the G20 protests in London it would appear that we should all be investing in video cameras and stills cameras.

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G20 to come to Scotland in November

14-04-2009 19:05

During the G20 summit at the beginning of the month in London heads of state from around the world agreed on an “Action Plan” to try and combat the recent economic downturn [1].

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The Winner Stands Alone by Paulo Coelho

14-04-2009 14:12

The Winner Stands Alone, the latest novel by Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho, is a savage indictment of the shallow world of consumerism and fashion and what it is doing to our souls.

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Mind your own businesses: GATS and the future of UK Schools

13-04-2009 10:38

A look at how the Global Agreement on Trade and Services has begun to influence the UK education system and might continue to affect it in future with, for example, the encroachment of businesses into schools and continued enforcement of testing, tables and targets, as well as how it might affect traditional qualifications.

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Tamil protest day 6

12-04-2009 00:22

The march was attended by 200.000 people or more, that is at least a third of the Tamils living in the UK. They are asking for an end to the genocide in Sri Lanka and a permanent ceasefire, and aid, aid workers, human rights observers and journalists to be allowed in the war zone. 271 Tamil people were slaughtered yesterday alone and up to 4000 in the last 6 weeks. All the Tamils living in UK have friends and relatives there, many had family members killed. Use of chemical weapons (prohibited by international law) have been documented.

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Ewa Jasiewicz from Free Gaza Movement speaking in Brighton, 28th April

11-04-2009 16:09

EWA Jasiewicz has been on the ground in Gaza since November, having arrived on the siege breaking Free Gaza boat. She has been working on ambulances and reporting the reality of lives under siege and under military assault.

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Killer Coke (by Latuff)

11-04-2009 09:58

Killer Coke
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.
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