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UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

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Postal union agrees to sell-out deal with Royal Mail

15-10-2007 16:46

By means of legal threats and with the connivance of the trade union bureaucracy, Royal Mail hopes to end the postal dispute and achieve its aim of overturning working conditions and pension rights, and eliminate tens of thousands of jobs.

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CaptainCodeye nazipaedo-loving failed genetic experiment of theBNP in Nottingham

15-10-2007 11:56

Captain Codeye the result of a failed genetic experiment involving quasimodos sister & a crazy austrian half pint with 1 ball is in Nottingham tuesday,
details on transport & protest.

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Colombia (and Latin America) Solidarity

14-10-2007 19:09

MONDAY 22 OCT, 7PM. MCR. UNIVERSITY SU, room MR1
HEAR: ANDY HIGGINBOTTOM secretary Colombia Solidarity Campaign
WATCH: MEMORIA DE SAQUEO, extacts from the Argentinian film
DISCUSS: developing a local Latin America solidarity network

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Postal dispute: High court blocks Monday's official action

12-10-2007 20:25

The High Court has blocked official strike action planned by the postal workers' union for Monday and Tuesday.

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Demands for government intervention aimed at strangling post dispute

12-10-2007 20:04

As we go to press, talks are under way between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU), as unofficial action that began at postal sorting depots in London, Glasgow and Liverpool Wednesday spread to several other offices by Thursday morning.

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African Development Projects Call for Solidarity, Not Charity

12-10-2007 00:13

The All African People's Development and Empowerment Project is an African-led, communitiy based iniative, building electrical, water purification and other types of infrastructure throughout the African world. The project envisions improved conditions, sustainability and true economic independence for African people.

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BIA raids in Soho London Today

11-10-2007 22:49

More than thirty people were arrested and detained in raids by the Borders and Immigration Agency and the Metropolitan Police on 5 restaurants in the Soho area of London this afternoon.

This is the latest episode in the Home Office's escalating war on migrant workers in Britain's capital, which sees as many as 60 raids on workplaces a week. Liam Byrne, the Immigration Minister repeats in the press release his boast that his department manages to deport a migrant worker or refugee from the UK every 8 minutes.

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Post workers face political struggle against Royal Mail/Labour government

11-10-2007 15:57

Unofficial strike action broke out at several postal sorting offices across the UK early Wednesday morning in response to deliberate provocations by Royal Mail.

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Royal Mail battle plans leaked

10-10-2007 22:17

As wildcats erupt across the UK, the royalmailchat.co.uk forum has obtained a copy of Royal Mail's battle plans for the current negotiations with the CWU.

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Merseyside Posties Wildcat

10-10-2007 16:45

Copperas Hill workers outside Lime Street station not working!
Though the latest round of official strikes sanctioned by the Communication Workers Union came to an end at 03:00 this morning, many postal workers are defying their leaders, and are staying out.

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Anti Kettle Foods Campaign Builds Head of Steam

10-10-2007 15:23

Kettle Foods have brought in US union busters. But have they bitten off more they can chew as consumer organising a boycott online?

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Stop Deporting Cameroonians - 2

09-10-2007 19:28

'Whether we have leave to remain or don't have leave to remain, let us unite'

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Cameroon Support Network (CSN)

09-10-2007 19:25

'Whether we have leave to remain or don't have leave to remain, let us unite'

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Ecosocialist International Founded

08-10-2007 07:24

Ecosocialist International founded at meeting in Paris - 7/10/07

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That Damned Marx

07-10-2007 18:01

No matter what they say, the bourgeois cannot escape the fact that Marx's ideas still hold water after all these years. His analysis of the capitalist system, its laws and contradictions are as relevant today as they were 150 years ago. The serious journals of capitalism confirm this.

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Publicity for 1st Ever Durham Working Class Bookfair

07-10-2007 16:36

The first newspaper article is published below about an important movement bookfair in the North East - there are no bookshops which sell movement literature in the N.E.

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Raw-Rap Roundup

06-10-2007 21:37

Can you hear the Raw? The world is alight fighting for Justice or is it as the Poor are still Poor and the Left, well they’ve…… yeah where are they. News for the Activist is here.

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Prepare now for emergency protests! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!

06-10-2007 11:32

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Prepare now for emergency protest at the US Embassy in London!

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a former Black Panther Party spokesman, supporter of the MOVE
organisation and an award-winning journalist known as the “voice of the voiceless”. He was
framed up in 1982 on false charges of killing a Philadelphia police officer. Sentenced to death
based on his political history and beliefs, Mumia has spent 25 years on death row for a crime
he did not commit.

See below, contact the PDC or visit www.partisandefense.org for more information.

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Good to talk: lets debate Britannia

05-10-2007 20:47

The future of the United Kingdom needs to be debated, beyond the parliamentary talk of a possible “snap general election” this autumn, with national issues including the direction of British foreign policy,

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Don't be a SCAB!

05-10-2007 15:19

West Midlands IWW show solidarity with the striking postal workers.
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