BMW’s decision to sack 850 agency employees at its Cowley factory in Oxford, giving many of them only an hour’s notice and with no intention to offer any of them a penny in redundancy pay, is an act of sheer industrial brutality. This is no way to deal with the worldwide difficulties in the motor [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Save Cowley Jobs
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Car Industry on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Leap into the Spring Offensive
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Credit Crunch, Greece, Green, Organise, Swindon on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s no doubt that the six weeks from March 28th – May 4th offers our anarchist movement a chance to move out of the shadows. Against the background of recession there has been rioting across Europe from Riga to Sofia. These are riots not by activists but by poor people hurting badly. The Greek uprising [...]
Fascist Firebomber Out On Patrol
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anti-fascism, Swindon on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Article by Andy Newman Taken from Socialist Unity – 22 Febraury 2009
On Friday I was visited by Julian Corbett, from the Public Protection Department of Wiltshire Police.
He came to ask me what my relationship was with wannabe Nazi terrorist, Mark Bullman (pictured), and to warn me that Bullman is now out of prison, and is looking for [...]
Anger as casual Mini staff axed
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Car Industry, Swindon on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7892538.stm
Angry scenes at the BMW Mini Cowley plant in Oxford were caught on mobile phone.
Anarcho TV
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Films on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lots and lots and lots of anarcho films and documentaries available now on Anarcho TV
http://www.anarchotv2point0.org
Chomsky versus Foucault
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anarchist Theory on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Paolo Virno and Judith Revel revisit the Foucault/Chomsky debate*
Paolo Virno:
The discussion that took place in 1971 between Chomsky and Foucault is a very interesting stimulus for us, which we can only engage with if we get into some detail. When they ended their encounter, these two left a whole load of questions open, and these [...]
Project for a Participatory Society
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Parecon on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The first ever PPS-UK Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at Cardiff University on Saturday the 21st of February 2009 from 1-5pm. Attendance is warmly welcome by all PPS-UK members and those motivated by Participatory Vision. Participatory Vision, and Parecon in particular, is growing in support globally with chapters springing up in different countries [...]
COSATU Solidarity
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anti-militarism on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Congress of South African Trade Union is pleased to announce that its members, dock workers belonging to the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) achieved a victory last night when they stood firm by their decision not to offload the Johanna Russ, a ship that was carrying Israeli goods to South Africa. [...]
The Spook Who Sat At The Door
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anarchist History, Culture on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Watch loads of anarchist films and documentaries on Anarcho TV including The Christiebooks Archive which can now be viewed here:
http://www.anarchotv2point0.org/drupal5/christiebooks
Anti-social solidarity
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Car Industry, Credit Crunch on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A short survey of some roots of the present economic crisis from a UK perspective – and the tasks ahead for both the ruling class and the working class, employed and unemployed alike.
(Though the article suggests that the State will clamp down hard on the growing unemployed masses, it may be that a scarcity of [...]
