UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive
Hail to the Egyptian People, A Statement By Workers Action (U.S.)
13-02-2011 06:32
We stand in awe and admiration at your historic victory, as you removed one of the world’s worst U.S.-sponsored dictators. You liberated yourselves and at the same time liberated the imagination of ordinary working people around the world.#Egypt - The revolution continues after Mubarak's fall
12-02-2011 22:21
Yesterday evening, after it was announced that Hosni Mubarak had met the first demand of the revolution and left office, I headed toward the Egyptian embassy in Amman. The joy on the streets was something I had never experienced before.
Lancashire's Anti-Cuts Movement Grows Bigger, And Louder!
12-02-2011 21:54
A mass protest took place against the conDem coalition's cuts in Preston City Centre today.Venezuela’s Social Movements: Autonomy’s Difficult Path
12-02-2011 20:14
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Marching against the cuts in Oxford
12-02-2011 12:12
People from all over Oxford come together today to protest against the government's cuts. The march, organised by Oxfordshire Anti-Cuts Alliance, will highlight the massive public opposition to the cuts.Resist Together - March 26th poster
12-02-2011 10:59
Charnwood Campaign Against the Cuts
12-02-2011 06:48
Meeting on Monday 21st Feb at John Storer House at 7:30.Please come along and help plan campaign actions.
Sheffield Celebration of Mubarak's Resignation in #Egypt
11-02-2011 22:35
Three important articles on the situation in Egypt
11-02-2011 18:08
“Washington is acutely conscious that what it confronts in Egypt is a social revolution. This has been driven home in the last few days as a strike wave has spread throughout the country, bringing into struggle virtually every section of the country’s working population, from textile workers, to bus drivers, hospital workers, actors, steelworkers, teachers, hospital workers, journalists, shipyard workers, peasants and countless others. Workers have occupied factories, blockaded major roads and fought pitched battles with riot police.The greatest fear of the ruling elite in the United States and in every other country is that this mass uprising in Egypt will serve as a spark, radicalizing workers throughout the Middle East, Africa and beyond under conditions in which the profound and protracted crisis of world capitalism is creating mass discontent in every corner of the world.”
Anti-Cuts demo in Swindon - This Thursday!
11-02-2011 17:27
Upcoming anti-cuts demo in Swindon -Bosses try to kill off workers’ rights
11-02-2011 11:25
Business leaders are risking workers’ lives and eroding employment rights by pushing the government to slash workplace regulations.2 Fr.Bks:Indignez-vous(Time for OUTRAGE)&”Coming Insurrection” spur revolts
10-02-2011 19:04
Two recent books from France and England are stirring up revolutions, and it's about time.I'll quote from them a little, because you need to know. But I am not trying to steal their sales. If you get a copy, that's a revolutionary act in itself.
Roma and Arabs in Europe and Latinos in America, take note. This about protecting your rights.
Captive Nation - Egypt And The West
09-02-2011 20:24
In 1886, Tolstoy wrote:
‘Slavery has long been abolished. It was abolished in Rome, and in America, and in Russia, but what was abolished was the word and not the thing in itself.’ (Tolstoy, What Then Must We Do?, Green Classics, 1991, p.104)
In 2011, ‘the thing in itself’ is alive and well in Egypt. What an extraordinary spectacle it is - a dictatorship behaving as though an entire people were its personal property. Henchmen aside, the people have spoken, almost as one, and their demands are very clear. The blunt government response, in effect: We react as we want. If we don’t want to, we don’t have to. Why? Because we have a monopoly of violence.
Protests spread to occupied Cyprus...
08-02-2011 19:23
Turkish Cypriot resistance to the occupation of Cyprus by Turkey continues to be completely ignored by the British media intent on perpetuating the myth that the Cyprus problem is one of Turks vs Greeks instead of one between imperialism and liberation... This week up to half the popultion of the north took to the streets... As Ergodan said: "Who do they think they are... I have strategic interests!"Full article | 1 addition | 1 comment
48 Hour Strike Called at Sheffield Newspapers
07-02-2011 13:17
Egyptian protesters return to the streets Friday for 'Day of Departure' demos
05-02-2011 00:03
At least 100,000 demonstrators held protests in Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and other cities in Egypt Friday, calling on the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down immediately. Friday's 'Day of Departure' protests came after a group of Mubarak supporters attacked demonstrators with clubs, pipes and guns on Thursday, killing four.upcoming demo and public meeting in Bath
03-02-2011 15:07
Join union members, students, claimants and community activists around Bath and the surrounds, to fight against the Con-Dem cutsThe Task Facing The Egyptian Working Class
02-02-2011 15:14
