UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive
The Makhno anarchists, Kronstadt and the position of the Russian peasants
10-01-2006 18:59
In September of 1920, Ivanov V. (representative of the Southern Front Revolutionary Soviet) visited Makhno. He later wrote this description of Makhno’s camp: “The regime is brutal, the discipline is hard as steel, rebels are beaten on the face for any small breach, no elections to the general command staff, all commanders up to company commander are appointed by Makhno and the Anarchist Revolutionary War Council, Revolutionary Military Soviet (Revvoensovet) became an irreplaceable, uncontrollable and non-elected institutionLATIN AMERICAN FORUM PUBLIC MEETING
10-01-2006 16:46
Organising an event of workshops, speakers, food, music and film to celebrate the revolutionary social, economic and cultural changes being pursued by popular movements across Latin America.National No Sweat Week of Action
10-01-2006 01:10
No Sweat, the campaign against sweatshop labour, is holding a week of action from 11th to the 18th February.Breakthrough in the Coca-Cola campaign
09-01-2006 13:28
Recent high profile campaign successes in the USA and UK, where Oxford, New York and Michigan Universities have all voted to boycott Coke, have at last forced the Colombian media to question Coke’s activities in the country. Today, Sinaltrainal (the Colombian Food and Drinks Workers’ Union) have been interviewed by Telesur (Venezuela), El Pais (Spain) CNN (USA) and all the major Colombian radio, TV and press.Interview: The New Year tube strikes
08-01-2006 11:11
With the second tube strike in as many weeks scheduled for 6.30pm today, libcom.org news conducted this interview with a long standing London Underground worker and RMT member on the eve of the strike.The Terrorist Worker
07-01-2006 21:36
The appearance of working class New York in the media was possible only as innocent victims of a selfish and greedy strike by union workers. Yet, in a reversal that approaches absurdity, vulnerability to real poverty by missing a few days of work does not add to an argument against unions but shows the very real need for them.Haiti: $100,000 NED Grant to Batay Ouvriye- A
07-01-2006 07:19
Exposing record delyas and brazen corruption in London Councils
06-01-2006 14:48
Rotten Boroughs as never seen in any news reports in the UK. coming here exclusively for Indymedia readersHunger Strike Launched by the WTO Political Prisoners
06-01-2006 08:35
12 of the 14 WTO Political Prisoners have decided to launch an indefinite hunger strike starting January 5 to not only highlight the injustice of their case, but more importantly highlight the reason for them coming to Hong Kong---to protest against the WTO. Their fight was not with the people of Hong Kong, but with the undemocratic institution of the WTO and the free trade policies implemented by the WTO without any real consultation with workers and farmers.protest to free iranian union leader, london, saturday 7 january
05-01-2006 14:12
Activists will protest outside the BBC's Persian Section from 12-2pm this Saturday, 7 January, to press for the release of Tehran bus drivers' union leader Mansoor Ossanlou, who is being held without charge by the Iranian regime.OPEN MEETING: A debate on working class representation.
02-01-2006 16:59
The 2005 RMT Annual General Meeting passed a motion calling on the union to organise a conference to discuss working-class representation.Call For An Anarchist Bloc At National Day of Action to Defend Council Housing
31-12-2005 17:07
Privatisation has been sweeping the UK and attacking the working class and the downtrodden for years. Housing, Transport, Hospitals, Gas, Schools and water are just part of an ever growing list of services and resources which have been sold off by the state to marauding capitalist groups.Lifelong Work
30-12-2005 14:21
Pension schemes and the labor market are in an irreconci-lable opposition. This schizoid argumentation has long sunk into mass consciousness.. That a society with the highest productivity of world history chains seniors to production longer than in the Middle Ages is hardly upsetting.Respect coalition in crisis.
30-12-2005 11:58
The elation over Galloway's election has subsided and now the strain of maintaining a coalition of contradictory views comes to the fore.UGSOA is Losing Members by The Hundreds - 387 in Less Then 2 Months
23-12-2005 03:51
Updated article on Iraqi election frauid
22-12-2005 17:03
This is a couple of articles on the Iraqi elections amounting to about 2,300 words. A short piece with 19 photos has also been added.Full article | 1 addition | 1 comment
The PCS, the Immigration 'Service' and the Scottish Protests
22-12-2005 01:02
The following statement was issued, by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) executive committee, on 24 November 2005 with regard to the on-going protests against the dawn raids aimed at refugees in Scotland. Bear in mind when reading it, that this is the only union in Britain which has an absolute majority of socialists - mostly members of the SP and SWP - on its executive committeeCrush christmas Consumer Chaos Cardiff
19-12-2005 14:03
USDAW and the Turner Report
18-12-2005 19:22
As an USDAW member it is horrifying that my union supports the Turner report and even tries to make out that it is a progressive report and legislation to follow will help working people.Full article | 1 addition | 1 comment
Sheffield Top Shop No Sweat Protest
17-12-2005 18:30
