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Gate Gourmet MASS SOLIDARITY 16 Oct

13-10-2005 21:05

MASS SOLIDARITY WITH GATE GOURMET STRIKERS :
SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
BEACON HILL


STATEMENT FROM GATE GOURMET STRIKERS SUPPORT GROUP WEST
LONDON AND SOUTH ASIA SOLIDARITY GROUP

The dispute at Gate Gourmet is NOT OVER. The workers are still on the picket line. The following facts need to be publicised:

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OCTOBER REVOLUTION ANNIVERSARY FILM SHOWING

12-10-2005 14:29

Leaflet for Film Showing
On Monday 7th November Leeds Alliance for Workers Liberty will be hosting a showing of Eisensteins classic film of the October Revolution, "October", followed by a short discussion.

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GATE GOURMET WORKERS: “IT’S NOT OVER YET!”

11-10-2005 00:44

the continuation of the dispute and its lessons

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Wednesday 12th October: Venezuelan "Day of Indigenous Resistance"

07-10-2005 21:01

We have two Hands Off Venezuela-related events this Wednesday 12th October:

From 4pm to 6pm there is a picket of the Colombian embassy in solidarity with terrorised workers on general strike. 3 Hans Crescent (behind Harrods) SW1, nearest tube Knightsbridge.

Then from 7pm, a booksigning of "Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution" by Richard Gott plus photo exhibition of the Alberdi School in Caracas by Jason Harris, followed by Venezuelan food & music. NUJ headquarters, 308 Gray's Inn Rd WC1, nearest tube King's Cross.

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SOLIDARIDAD URGENTE CON LA LUCHA DE LOS TRABAJADORES DEL COLEGIO DE BACHILLERES

07-10-2005 01:28

Hacemos un llamado urgente de solidaridad internacionalista con los trabajadores del Colegio de Bachilleres (CB) de México que estamos llevando adelante una decidida lucha contra la violación al contrato colectivo de trabajo y por mejoras en las condiciones laborales.

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Colombian Vice President Santos

06-10-2005 22:04

Contact the Vice-President of Colombia if you can before the 12th October....

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London meeting: Gate Gourmet & the Struggles Ahead

04-10-2005 09:50

7pm on Thursday 6th October 2005 at Conway Hall Red Lion Square, London WC1 Nearest tube: Holborn

Speakers include : Lakhwinder Saran, woman striker from the picketline at Gate Gourmet, and Gate Gourmet shop stewards, Avtar Jouhl, Indian Workers' Association (GB), South Asia Solidarity Group, reports from the trade union movement in India

Sacked workers are still on the picket line outside Gate Gourmet after the Transport and General Workers Union struck a deal with the management on 27th September. According to the deal, 144 strikers were forcibly made redundant and 7 were to remain sacked with no compensation. At the same time 3 baggage handlers at Heathrow Airport who had taken part in a 1000-strong one-day sympathy strike are still suspended. According to the Gate Gourmet workers 'it is not over yet!'

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small WORLD interview with Cyndi Rhoades, Anti-Apathy/Worn Again

04-10-2005 07:43

Interview with Cyndi Rhoades of Anti-Apathy and Worn Again.

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West Midlands Anarchists Update

03-10-2005 15:31

This is an overview of what west midlands anarchists are going to be up to in the coming months after decisions taken at our general meeting on the 2/10/05.

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Support Gate Gourmet and BA Heathrow workers - Nottingham Support meeting

02-10-2005 15:55

Gate Gourmet may be 'resolved' but the sacked workers at Gate Gourmet and BA Heathrow workers still need solidarity

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Open Letter on behlaf of iranian Workers

28-09-2005 07:30

Support Iranian workers, support their struggle, and join us in the ‘Week in Solidarity with Iranian workers’ to show that:
Iranian workers are not alone

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Mark Barnsley Visits Derry's Bogside

26-09-2005 22:37

Some photos of Mark Barnsleys Talk in Derry, Ireland

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Gate Gourmet serve up a feast at 24/09

26-09-2005 14:40

Gate Gourmet Workers at the Anti-War Demo

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Cuba under threat from US aggression...

26-09-2005 13:04

For 44 years Cuba has suffered attempted invasions, terrorist attacks and a vicious and illegal economic blockade by the US. Despite this, the country's many achievements, including its renowned health and education services, have survived. Whatever your views on Cuba, its people do not deserve such aggression. I urge all readers to call on the British government to separate itself from such threats by sending a clear message to the US and the Cuban people that it would not support US military action against the country.

I (along with others) am dedicated to the idea that every country has a right to self-determination. That when a people, such as the people of Cuba, decides to kick out a dictator, as they did to Batista in January 1959, they have a right to organize their freedom anyway they want.

The 'free-loading' capitalist class of the United States don't see it that way. They think that Cuba is theirs - just as they think that every country in Latin America and everywhere else is theirs to plunder.

Whenever a North American capitalist is in trouble, the United States sends its gunboats and armed soldiers to strong-arm anyone who doesn't like being exploited by some American businessman. That's the American way!

Prior to the 1959 revolution Cuba was used as a 'sporting house' and a 'playground' for North American tourists. Brothels, gambling casinos, big hotels, plantations, and factories were all owned and controlled by American businesses. Cuban men, women and children were there to be controlled and to labour so that the exploiters could send their profits to banks within the United States (USA).

Batista, the dictator of Cuba at that time, acted like a hired gun of the United States. He made sure that any Cuban worker who even thought of organizing a union disappeared, rapidly. His job was to keep the Cuban people in their place, on their knees, for the North American capitalist class... Then something happened.

Fidel Castro, Che Guevara (an American Doctor) and other young Cuban rebels decided to try and take back Cuba for its people. And they did - with the support of the overwhelming majority of the Cuban people, who wanted to get the foreign capitalists out of their country. On New Year's Day, 1959, the July 26th Movement took their country away from the 'Yankee' imperialists.

Then they set about taking back their land and turning it over to the Cuban peasants and workers. They closed the brothels and gambling casinos, took the plantations and factories out of the hands of North American robber barons, and stopped the northward drift of profits.

Then, for all Cubans, they set up free medical care, free public education through college, and free childcare. They began to build housing, roads, and airports and nationalized the banking system. They made Cuba a nation of proud, educated and rightly militant people.

Imperialism (UK & USA) hates that kind of thing as it could catch on in other countries within the Western Hemisphere. If one group of workers threw out their capitalist government, then every other small country could do likewise. Even workers within the imperialist countries could get wise and start thinking about a real democracy within their own countries!

Can you imagine the working class voting for their own hours and wages? Can you imagine workers voting to build hospitals and repair schools instead of bombs and tanks?

And the working class voting against bombing Panama or Iraq, saying they had nothing to gain by murdering men, women and children in another country?

Instead, the workers of imperialist countries vote for puppets who go to Washington D.C. and work for their bosses. They have the choice of voting for Candidate #1, who will do what he or she is told to do, or Candidate #2, who will do what he or she is told to do.

Every once in a while there comes Candidate #3, who promises to work for the "people" and then does what he or she is told to by the ruling class. That's the kind of "democracy" in practice in the United States.

In Cuba, workers bypassed that kind of 'democracy' and set up their own kind of government. In fact, when the United States invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban people voted with their guns and drove out the invaders. That was democracy - an event very similar to our own "Boston Tea Party" on Dec. 16, 1773 - a struggle that eventually eliminated control by the British monarchy.

Once again, the U.S. imperialists are on a rampage against Cuba. They have tried everything to choke the life out of that country. Now they want to tighten their fingers around the throat of the Cuban people.

Please go to your search engine and key in Cuba Solidarity Campaign or Hands Off Cuba.

Thanks so much for reading.

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What happened at the Corporate Pirates Trial? - report-back

24-09-2005 19:36

Update on the results of the Corporate Pirates trial last week plus a report on the motivations and political significance of the action undertaken and the subsequent trial

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Stop War March: Support Gate Gourmet workers! Support BA baggage handlers!

23-09-2005 17:35

Sorry for the late notice but ...


Gate Gourmet workers will be attending the London Stop the War march for peace and justice tomorrow.

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S.O.S Colombia. Student Murdered during demo against FTAA in Cali.

23-09-2005 08:20

S.O.S. to the British friends of the Planet, Justice and Freedom.
We need urgent solidarity! real direct and pacific actions! in order to survive and have the chance of dreaming a better world...
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