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UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

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What kind of nonsense is going on at Occupy London?

09-12-2011 15:15

Yes, what kind of nonsense is going on at Occupy London? Meeting with UBS and The FSA? Hanging out with The Guardian?

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Leic Solidarity Group

09-12-2011 08:51

LSG gets a website

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Greece: The Illegitimacy of Demands

08-12-2011 23:20

With demands over the wage and welfare in austerity Greece deemed illegitimate because unaffordable, what shape can struggle take? Demetra Kotouza sees the all out attack on living standards as producing a de facto opposition that can't be cohered by ideologies of class

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Sparks Defy Anti-Union Laws With Massive Wildcat Strike

08-12-2011 13:53

Hundreds of electricians took wildcat strike action on Wednesday, defying the bosses who want to slash their wages, the anti-union laws which the bosses use to pick holes in strike mandates, and the union bureacracy which had to be dragged kicking and screaming to holding a ballot at all. The country's biggest 'unofficial' walkout in decades represents a new stage in the UK class war - a stage in which workers recognise the limitations of their own leaderships, and consciously move beyond them. By cutting out the utterly compromised middle men and women in this way, working people come face to face with their ultimate enemy - huge corporations and the capitalist state.

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Black Flame author Lucien van der Walk talk – Freedom bookshop Dec 10th

08-12-2011 09:59

We are pleased to have Lucien van der Walk co-author of the acclaimed Black Flame (the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism) coming to speak in the shop on Saturday 10th December at 2pm. All welcome.

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Report Jeremy Clarkson to the Press Complaints Commission

08-12-2011 00:20

Indymedia users made a significant contribution to encouraging members of the public to register complaints with Ofcom and the BBC, in protest against Jeremy Clarkson suggesting striking public sector workers should be murdered. The Samaritans, Mind and Rethink Mental Illness are also making complaints to the Press Complaints Commission, urging them to investigate Jeremy Clarkson for suggesting that the remains of suicide victims should be eaten by wild animals. Please help by registering your complaint with the Press Complaints Commission here...

 http://www.pcc.org.uk/complaints/form.html

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School strike shatters Oasis’ calm after pupil protest over redundancies

06-12-2011 11:00

Teachers at the privately-run MediaCity Academy in Salford yesterday began two further days of strike action, with more planned before the end of term in a dispute which has seen students join their teachers in protest at the sacking of staff.

NUT and NASUWT members are striking in response to the academy operator, OASIS, attempting to rush through the redundancy of 12 teachers – 20% of the teaching staff.

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Herefordshire workers join N30 strike

04-12-2011 20:37

Herefordshire workers manned picket lines at colleges, the Magistrates court, hospital, library, museum and Town Hall on Wednesday...

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Heard the one about Jeremy Clarkson?

04-12-2011 17:01

General Pinochet
Heard the one about Jeremy Clarkson?

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Africans mobilized around world reject Kabila's neocolonial regime

04-12-2011 04:02

African working class worldwide take on Congo's neocolonial Joseph Kabila, and call for the African Socialist International to be established for our people in the DRC.

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N30 Milton Keynes

03-12-2011 22:32

Video N30 MK/2
More N30 MK pics + video

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N30 Milton Keynes

03-12-2011 20:35

MK Nov30
Pics of N30 MK

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John Holloway, Hillel Ticktin, Immanuel Wallerstein on Capitalism's Crisis

03-12-2011 18:45

capitalism game over
Marxists have been predicting the disintegration of capitalism for so long that most people - including most Marxists - stopped believing it would ever happen. But today anyone who reads the financial press knows that the system is in an unprecedented crisis with no clear way out. The following articles offer a variety of ways of understanding the crisis so we can begin to create a world beyond capitalism:

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November 30th: UK on Strike Video

03-12-2011 05:35

On November 30th, 2011 millions of public sector workers across the UK went on strike against massive cuts in the pension system. The following is a short documentary about the strikes.

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Thousands take to Cambridge Streets on November 30th

02-12-2011 22:47

A beautiful day...
On Wednesday November 30th, we witnessed one of the biggest public sector strikes to take place in the UK since the 1970s, and the people of Cambridge came out in force to support it.

Some estimates place the figure at around 4,000 local people in attendance, although there is no way to confirm (or deny) this.

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Zapatista Solidarity Demonstration Saturday 3rd December

02-12-2011 20:09

Global Weekend of action in resistance to Slaughter in Chiapas.
2pm outside Mexican embassy

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Protest Against Atos Outside the Paralympic Test Event Tomorrow!

02-12-2011 14:19

Disabled people, benefit claimants and supporters will be demonstrating at the Olympic Site in Stratford on Saturday 3rd December at 2pm outside the London Prepares Goalball test event for the Paralympic Games.

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Stirchley and Cotteridge Against the Cuts N30 Report

02-12-2011 11:33

Stirchley and Cotteridge against the Cuts did a tour of the main picket lines in our area this morning; Lifford Refuse Depot, Lifford House, The Blood Service and the Cotteridge Church Centre, before joining the main march in town.
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