UK Indymedia - UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

Campaign against the assassination of workers in Venezuela

18-06-2009 19:55

* El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario has joined this campaign and we’re trying to divulge this initiative in an attempt to confront the hired killers that are taking the lives of labor activists in this country.

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A new wave of wildcat strikes hits Notts

18-06-2009 10:13

Reports are coming in of a wildcat demonstration outside Ratcliffe power station causing delays on the A453. The Independent says that West Burton power plant is also affected. The strikers are supporting fellow workers at the Lindsey refinery in Lincs where over 50 were laid off a week ago.

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News and Demonstrations - Iran Today

18-06-2009 09:43

In our continuing bid to help comrades beat the filters in Iran students and workers have asked for those outside of Iran to post the location of demontstrations, the main slogans and some important news across the internet. We ask comrades and supporters to help in this.

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Orgreave - 25 years today

18-06-2009 07:49

To mark 25 years since the Battle of Orgreave, we have created an ironic Parody of the battle using an 80s sountrack and game format of the time.

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Happy J18: Ten Year Anniversary of June18th Protests: Pics+Links

18-06-2009 02:08

Reposted from Indymedia London: For full 23 pics see:

https://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1630

Ten years ago today and a global Carnival Against Capital was erupting across the world with co-ordinated protests taking place in over 40 countries on June 18th 1999.

Directly targeting financial centres the J18 day of International Action was stunning in its scale and ran alongside the G7/G8 meeting in Koln Germany. It followed the Global Street Party that had been held alongside the G7/G8 meeting in Birmingham in 1998 and co-ordinated through Reclaim The Streets.

To remember it, here's a set of 23 pictures from London J18 courtesy of a photographer who was there for the morning and the party, but who missed the ensuing riot as police fought to regain control of the City of London.

The reasons for struggle are greater now than then, and climate change and economic meltdowns threaten the lives and livelihoods of us all.

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Reel News film night 2nd July

18-06-2009 00:26

The bi-monthly Reel News film screening is back 2nd July, Spotted Dog, Warwick Street, Digbeth from 7.30pm.

http://www.reelnews.co.uk/

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1st Oxford Working Class Bookfair - Provisional Timetable

17-06-2009 18:13

IF THERE'S ANY HOPE, IT LIES WITH THE PROLES - GEORGE ORWELL, 1984

A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING ENGLAND - the spectre of the 1st Oxford Working Class Bookfair. On the eve Summer solstice there will be a gathering of the tribes -a bookfair -a place to meet likeminded people & exchange ideas & information!

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Yarl's Wood IRC: Mothers & Fathers on Hunger Strike

17-06-2009 10:52

Once again there is unrest in a UK Immigration Removal Centre

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Third Attempt to Remove Deji Ogundimu

17-06-2009 10:47

Deji Ogundimu a national of Nigeria and resident of Oxford, is due to be forcibly removed form the UK to Nigeria on Virgin Atlantic Flight No VS 651 at 22.00 hours tomorrow Thursday 18 June 2009

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Shrewsbury 24 Campaign Rally, 4TH July 2009

16-06-2009 15:56

After the 1972 Building Workers’ National Strike 24 Trade Unionists were tried at Shrewsbury in a hostile act perpetrated by a Tory Government to criminalise picketing. A number of these men were given severe prison sentences

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Speak out against racism and deportations

14-06-2009 22:35

The Angel, London
13 June 2009

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Pix-&-Vidz of the RMT Tube Strike – Thu 11 Jun 09

13-06-2009 08:18

Dateline: RMT Picket Line, Seven Sisters, London, UK, 13:00, Thu 11 Jun 09 – On the second day of the London Underground Two Day Strike, pickets from the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers stake out an autonomous space for Industrial Direct Action, outside Transport for London’s new Pleiades House offices in Westerfield Road, N15 5LD. With red and green flags flying high, a BBQ replacing the more traditional brazier, and toots of support from passing drivers, the strikers were in high good spirits at the success of their action, while remaining angry at their betrayal by the class traitors in ASLEF HQ.

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Workers' Fightback: Update 6

12-06-2009 16:36

Co-ordinating solidarity and exchanging information on independent, rank and file working class resistance to the profit system. The revolution will be social networked... We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system! We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders! We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives!

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Rob Williams Reinstated as Union Convenor at Swansea Linamar

11-06-2009 10:16

After more than two months campaigning the sacked union convenor has been reinstated.

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Staff strike at Leeds College of Art and Design in pay row

10-06-2009 20:08

Lecturers at Leeds College of Art are on Strike over failures to honour a pay deal from 2004.

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Tube Strike: Update

10-06-2009 18:42

Update of london tube strike which started yesterday

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BBC Scabs

10-06-2009 10:19

The BBC website front page reads "beat the strike"

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Haiti: Students demonstrate for minimum wage increase

09-06-2009 22:44

Progressive students from the State University in Port-au-Prince began street demonstrations on 3rd June. The mobilisation has focused on President Preval's refusal to sanction the National Assembly (Parliament) vote to increase the daily minimum wage. They have been met with fierce repression from the riot police and UN soldiers.

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