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UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

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Bristol Anarchist Bookfair 2009

12-05-2009 21:30

Advance publicity flyer - more to follow
The Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Collective is pleased to announce the date and venue for this years event: Saturday 12 September 2009, at The Island, Silver Street, Bristol BS1 2PY, with a provisional time of 10.30am to 7pm.

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party in support of the Visteon workers

12-05-2009 16:36

rampART
15 -17 Rampart Street, London E1 2LA (near Whitechapel, off Commercial Rd)
rampart[at]mutualaid.org

From 7-9PM, we will screen films about the Visteon factory occupation and show images; workers from the Enfield factory will speak about the occupation and their ongoing dispute with Ford.

From 9PM-2AM, we will have an acoustic set, followed by DJs.

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May Day Solidarity Conference in Barnsley - a report

12-05-2009 16:21

On May Day 2009. the magnificent 150 year old Barnsley Miners Hall was the setting for a conference bringing together militant trade unionists from Yorkshire and asylum seekers and migrant workers from around the world...

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Colnbrook IRC under Blockade

12-05-2009 09:11

Anti-deportation campaigners encase themselves in concrete and glass to stop mass deportation flight to Iraq

Campaigners from the Stop Deportation Network and the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees are blockading Colnbrook detention centre, near Heathrow airport, to stop 45 Iraqi refugees being forcibly deported to Iraqi Kurdistan on a specially chartered flight. Six protesters have encased their arms in glass and plastic tubes and concrete blocks, blocking the entrance to Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres. The coaches to carry deportees to the airport have not been able to leave.

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Breaking News: London Metropolitan University Occupied against restructuring!!‏

11-05-2009 19:11

Time now: 19.53, Monday. Urgent call out to East London Comrades - police expected by 9pm tonight!

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London Met UCU Strike

11-05-2009 15:02

Reports and interviews from the picket lines by Communist Students.

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Visteon Swansea Update - Protest/Campaign Meeting at Swansea

11-05-2009 10:10

Although convenor Rob Williams has officially been sacked from the Visteon plant, the workers, socialists and union supporters still haven't given up the fight, and another rally/protest will be held in a couple of days.

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Nottingham's Annual MayDay March and Rally 2 : Event

10-05-2009 23:38

Nottingham's Annual MayDay march and rally, held on Saturday May 2nd. The theme this year : A Celebration of Resistance.

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Nottingham's Annual MayDay March and Rally 1 : Parade

10-05-2009 23:26

Nottingham's Annual MayDay march and rally, held on Saturday May 2nd. The theme this year : A Celebration of Resistance.

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Birmingham Meeting for No Borders Camp, Calais

10-05-2009 14:11

The Calais No Border camp, 23 -29 June, calls for freedom of movement for all, an end to borders and all migration controls.
Birmingham Anti_Racist Campaign (ARC), facilitating a Birmingham mobilisation to the Camp, invite you to an organising meeting on Tuesday 19th May 2009, at 7.30pm.

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Birmingham Trades Union Council, International Workers Day 2009

10-05-2009 02:51

Clarion Singers
A Mayday Rally platform organised by the City’s Trade Council with various speakers from across the Unions as well as speakers on Anti-Racism and Ireland

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Tomorrow: BBQ Benefit Party For Ford Visteon Workers [FREE]

08-05-2009 13:33

SATURDAY 9TH MAY LONDON L&S PRESENTS:
BBQ BENEFIT PARTY FOR FORD VISTEON WORKERS
1PM TIL LATE @ Freedom Centre

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BNP goes for representational politics in the EU

08-05-2009 12:06

The BNP is mounting a campaign in the North West and finding unprecedented support for his candidate to the European Parliament. However absurd this may sound, it is happening before our eyes. The challenge it poses is how to engage the anti-immigration rhetoric when it goes to representational.

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Workers' Fightback Update - 8th May 2009

08-05-2009 01:15

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.

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West Midlands Industrial Workers of the World Mayday Celebration

07-05-2009 22:09

Up to 100 people came along and partied at the West Midlands IWW Mayday celebration on Friday May 1st at the Wagon and Horses in Digbeth, Birmingham.

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Free Film at 56a, London: CHOP SHOP Sun May 17th

07-05-2009 18:59

Chop Shop's Alejandro
Full Unemployment Cinema present: Free Film Screening - Chop Shop
Sunday 17th MAY - 3pm
56a Infoshop
56 Crampton St
London
SE17 3AE

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Visteon workers maintain action after accepting redundancy offer

07-05-2009 15:56

Visteon workers in Belfast, Enfield and Basildon have voted to accept a new offer of redundancy payments after they were summarily dismissed just over one month ago.

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Around the Campaigns Thursday 7th May 2009

07-05-2009 06:30

Stephanie, Desmond, Raphael and Ubaka back in Sheffield

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Update from the Anarchist Movement Conference 09

06-05-2009 13:20

Anarchist Movement Conference 2009 in London, UK
June 6th/7th, Queen Mary University, London E1 4NS
web: www.conference09.org.uk // email:  info@conference09.org.uk

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Swansea Visteon Update 6th May 2009

06-05-2009 12:10

An update of events at the Visteon plant in Swansea
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