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UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

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Vestas day of action - today

17-09-2009 07:26

We will be leafletting at Sheffield train station (outside main entrance), from 4:30pm. The Vestas campaign have produced a broadsheet leaflet with details of their campaign, and we will also hold a collection to raise more funds for the campaign to continue.

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THEIR CRISIS, OUR RESURGENCE - West Midlands IWW benefit gig, 19th September

16-09-2009 22:24

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Wildcat Promotions presents a THEIR CRISIS, OUR RESURGENCE production. West Midlands IWW benefit gig 19th September at the Wagon Horses, Digbeth. £5 on the door, 8 'til late

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Mitie Corporate HQ - SHUT DOWN

16-09-2009 17:49

We'll be back
Mitie shutdown before the noise demo even starts, we'll be back tomorrow.

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Vestas Protestors Occupy Crane and Boats in Southampton

15-09-2009 14:59

The occupied ship - 'Blade Runner'
Blade Runner Protest launched from Power Boat

Using Southampton's Boat Show as cover, protesters have arrived by power-boat this morning to occupy cranes and vessels at the city's docks.

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Keyboard Warriors Needed as Liverpool Activists Picket Rubbish Scabs

15-09-2009 12:07

A group of activists from the Workers' Fightback group amongst others are currently picketing strike-breakers Assist Streetcare at their depot in Aintree, Liverpool, and they need your help!

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Was Karl Marx Right? Understanding The Credit Crunch

15-09-2009 10:48

‘Was Karl Marx Right? Understanding the Credit Crunch’ is the title of a new Workers' Educational Association (WEA) course starting on Tuesday 15 September 2009 at the Unitarian Church hall, Ellison Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, over 10 weeks from 6.00 pm - 8.00 pm.

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The Women Chainmakers' Festival 2009

14-09-2009 16:52

On Saturday 12th September 2009 the Black County Living Museum and the Midlands TUC hosted the Women Chainmaker's Festival to commemorate the women who almost a century ago went on strike to challenge the poverty pay of their female dominated forges.

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London Picket of Serbian Embassy for arrested @'s - Report

14-09-2009 13:42

Anarchists picket Serbian Embassy in London, Friday September 11th 2009
A couple of dozen people picketed the Serbian Embassy in London on Friday lunchtime 11th September. Not bad at such short notice. Members of SF and FAU (German IWA Section) were supported by London Anarchist Federation, libertarian students’ group Autonomy & Solidarity and others.

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Cardiff - Fight For Jobs/Fight For The Planet

14-09-2009 11:39

Thursday, 17 September 2009, 17:00 - 18:30, Nye Bevan Statue
End of Queen St, Cardiff

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Workers' Fightback: Refuse workers against rubbish pay, Vestas, subway sabotage

13-09-2009 23:36

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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Calling all unemployed!

13-09-2009 15:49

UWU Flyer
Unemployed people in Cambridge need a fighting union to resist attacks by the government like the Welfare Reform Bill and the humiliating New Deal schemes.

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The Treatment of The Unemployed as Criminals is Criminal

13-09-2009 05:25

There is a spectre haunting Europe. It is the spectre of unemployment. In consequence of incompetence at the highest levels of Banking, there are millions without an employer. It is a terrifying prospect for both governments and businesses. Yet they have no fear. They have a plan: criminalise the Unemployed.

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Solidarity with Train Drivers

11-09-2009 13:52

Support the ASLEF train drivers striking for fair conditions and respect.

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Call for anti-capitalist analyses of the COP15

10-09-2009 20:25

Call for anti-capitalist analyses of the COP15 - linking what´s going on in the COP-process with other dimensions of the capitalist system.

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Vestas Blade Blockade Steps Up The Pressure By Setting Up A Tripod at Sunsrise

10-09-2009 09:27

Tripod at Sunrise
On the morning of Thursday 10 September a tripod has now successfully been erected at the marine gate preventing blades from leaving the factory. A worker from the original occupation is currently standing at the top of the tripod as the blockade prepares for an increase in activity on both sides.

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Support Striking Enterprise Liverpool Workers

09-09-2009 20:24

Six hundred refuse collectors, street cleaners, recycling and highways staff employed by Liverpool City Council are on strike to protect wages and conditions. A series of rolling strikes, overtime bans and a work to rule have not been enough to stop the council using strike-breaking scabs.

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Trouble at Vestas picket - HELP NEEDED!

09-09-2009 18:08

Police and security guards have descended in large numbers on the Vestas protest camp and appear to be attempting to break up the workers' and supporters' blockade. There has so far been one arrest -help is urgently needed!

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Day 3 of Leeds garbage strike

09-09-2009 11:23

The Leeds bin strike enters its 3rd day with no sign of a breakthrough in the dispute

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London Demo for arrested Belgrade Anarchists, Friday 11th

09-09-2009 10:42

The arrested anarchists
Six anarchists have been arrested in Belgrade following an attack on the Greek Embassy in April. The attack was claimed by a previously unknown group, and was said to be in solidarity with the recent uprising against the Greek state.

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World War Two: Good war or imperialist slaughter?

08-09-2009 19:45

The Second World War, was supposed to be a ‘good war’, perhaps the only ‘good war’ of the last hundred years. This has been used again and again to justify the present social order. This idea of the ‘good war’ serves to reinforce the idea that, when it comes down to it, we must all rally together to defend democracy when it is threatened by something ‘much worse’...
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