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UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

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Postal workers walk out over planned pay and job cuts – Birmingham picket lines

29-06-2007 20:06

the back gate picket line
Up to 130,000 postal workers today took part in a 24-hour strike -the first in 11 years- to stop the Royal Mail's cost-cutting plans, which the Communication Workers Union (CWU) says would only mean cuts in members' pay and pensions, job cuts and more post office closures. Picket lines were mounted outside sorting offices and mail centres across the country from early morning, disrupting mail deliveries for the day.

In Birmingham, two picket lines at the front and back gates of the main mail centre in Newtown saw, on and off, tens of postal workers and their supporters, while 'Royal Mail police' were trying to break up the picket lines, intimidating and threatening picketers. There was also another picket line somewhere in the city centre.

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Defend Workers United

29-06-2007 19:36

In support of: The Postal Strike: the facts not media spin
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/374640.html

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The Good Lord Protected Me From Bush...

29-06-2007 18:41

The Good Lord Protected Me From Bush," said President Fidel Castro referring to recent statements by the US statesman, who predicted that "one day, the Good Lord will take Fidel Castro away."

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The San Juan Massacre

29-06-2007 11:59

Fortieth anniversary of a mining tragedy in Bolivia

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Organising for Fighting Unions - Report

29-06-2007 07:51

On thursday, 28th June a rally was held at the Midlands Arts Centre in Edgbaston, this rally centred around the defence of the public sector workers amid ever growing attacks on the public sector around forty people attended, with comrades from the IWW and SolFed in attendance.

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The Underrated Power of Economists

28-06-2007 12:33

During the Great Depression between the two world wars, the Brit John Maynard Keynes came to the insight that was implemented in the 1960s. The state must guide the economy by its spending to avert the danger of depression.. Friedman the ideologist was more successful than Friedman the economist.

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29 June: Postal workers set for first national strike in 11 years

28-06-2007 11:52

Britain’s postal workers are set to hold their first national strike in 11 years on June 29. The strike was called by the CWU (Communication Workers Union) after pay talks between the union and management at Royal Mail collapsed.

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Spin and rumours at the G8

28-06-2007 08:54

With proper wars it is a well-known occurrence for one side’s propaganda department to try and spread the most horrific stories about the other party. The opposition are depicted as brutal barbarians who ravage children and should be opposed at all cost. In military jargon this is known as ‘psyops’. During the protests against the G8 in Heiligendamm there were clear indications of a similar strategy. In this case the infamous ’’black block’’ played the part of the barbarians. This is a biased summary of the misinformation and its effect.

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Postal workers strike against pay limit: It’s a fight for us all

27-06-2007 14:52

Postal workers strike against pay limit: It’s a fight for us all

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Autonomously Gazing After the G8

26-06-2007 17:59

A text written in the hope of an empowering self-critical debate in autonomous and anarchist circles about what happened and what didn´t happen during the protests against the g8...
one swallow doesn´t make a summer

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Iraq descends into clericalism and barbarism

26-06-2007 10:41

Gay Iraqi human rights activist reveals that for most Iraqis, life is now worse than it was under Saddam.

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Audio: Iraqi Trade Unionists Speak out

25-06-2007 09:57

Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, Pres. Electrical Utility Workers Union and Faleh Abood Umara, General Sec. of the Federation of Oil Unions are currently on a speaking tour of the US, see:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/374129.html

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Is Witness Intimidation Really Legal During Employment Tribunal Proceedings?

24-06-2007 21:05

The Crown Prosecution Service has taken up and immediately dropped a case of alleged witness intimidation against high level officials at Kingston University on the grounds that no crime had taken place, since the acts occurred in connection with Employment Tribunal proceedings. Can it really be the case that Witness Intimidation is, in effect, perfectly legal when it occurs against parties to an Employment Tribunal? Could Parliament really have meant for it to be that way when they wrote the Criminal Justice and Police Act of 2001?

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Keep Your Blood Service Local

23-06-2007 21:27

Video
The National Blood Service in the UK is ploughing ahead with a hotly disputed strategy of reconfiguration. Directors plan to close blood processing and testing labs at 10 local centres in favour of just 3 supercentres in Bristol, Manchester and Colindale (London). 100s of technical staff - about half the lab workforce - face redundancy.

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Sacco-Vanzetti 80th anniversary approaches

23-06-2007 19:40

23 August 2007 will be the 80th anniversary of the state murder of Niccola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Italian-American anarchist militants, they were convicted of murder during the 'red scare' by a prosecutor who didn't hesitate to use their radicalism to bias the jury against them and before a prejudiced judge.

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Grey power, a living wage and dignity - BBC cleaners deliver mass petition

23-06-2007 14:55

The BBC at White City, via cleaning contractors OCS, is booting out cleaners because they are 'too old', as well as paying a minimum wage, no sick pay etc. There are hundreds of cleaners at the BBC - White City of all ages and nationalities. Despite continual OCS management harrassment and high levels of fear, they are now reacting....

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Salman Rushdie, Our Perspective is Bigger!

23-06-2007 14:40

Whilst anger mounts, over the planned honouring of “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, the British Government has stood by the decision and denounced the international protests by claiming, “We have a tolerance of other people’s point of view and we don’t apologise for that.”

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Vilma Espín Guillois

21-06-2007 10:36

Vilma’s example today is more necessary than ever. She devoted her entire life to the struggle for women’s rights when in Cuba most women were discriminated against as human beings, the same as in the rest of the world, with only the honorable revolutionary exceptions...

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Iraq Union Leaders Speak Out Against Occupation

21-06-2007 07:36

Anti-war activists should be heartened that U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) is hosting a U.S. tour of two Iraqi labor leaders, providing people in this country a civilians-eye view of the Iraq war. On Tuesday June 12, these two impressive unionists spoke in San Francisco at an event co-sponsored by USLAW, United for Peace and Justice and the American Friends Service Committee.

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WoW York

20-06-2007 09:03

WoW York is happening.
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