Archive for April, 2009
May Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged May Day on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Electronics workers save their jobs in France
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Car Industry, Credit Crunch on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After an occupation and strike lasting over six weeks workers at the FCI
Microconnections in Mantes-la-Jolie have saved their jobs.
The strike began on February 24th with workers demanding assurances on their
future. Management refusal to give information on production at an equivalent
factory in Singapore and an announcement that there was ‘overstaffing’ led
workers to believe that the [...]
Police suspension over attack at G20 death vigil
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged G20, Police Brutality on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Scotland Yard last night suspended a second officer over brutality allegations after fresh video surfaced showing him striking a woman who was attending a vigil in honour of Ian Tomlinson, the man who died after being attacked by police at the G20 protests.
The officer, a sergeant, was the second person from [...]
Protest march climaxes struggle for the liberation of imprisoned December
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Greece on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The protest march of Saturday 11/4 marks a climax for the solidarity struggle regarding
imprisoned insurgents of the December uprising in Athens
On Saturday 11/4 noon a big protest march took to the streets of Koridallos, Athens,
towards the central jail of Greece. The march was in protest to the continuing
imprisonment of last December insurgents against who [...]
Greek prisoner activist found dead during prisoner transfer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Greece, Police Brutality on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
20 March 2009
Early on Wednesday morning, a Greek prisoner actively engaged in defending prisoners’ rights was found dead. Katerina Goulioni and other prisoners were being transferred on a ferry from Thiva women’s prison in Greece to Neapoli prison on Crete.
It is alleged that, during the transport, she was seated at a distance from other prisoners [...]
Visteon factory worker occupations mini documentary
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Car Industry on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Post-Fordism in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Car Industry on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Ford motor company has had a parts factory on the Finaghy Road in West Belfast for years. In 1980 there were 1400 employees working there. By the year 2000 that had been reduced to about 550 or 600. At least some of that decline in the labour force is attributable to machinery improvements creating [...]
Police Violence Results in Death
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged G20 on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The last thing either the government or the Metropolitan police wanted, on the day that Britain played host to the G20 leaders last week, was a death during the demonstrations being staged simultaneously in the City of London. So perhaps it should be no surprise that initially the fate of Ian Tomlinson, the man who [...]
Reclaim the right to the city.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Credit Crunch, Right to the City on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Climate Camp London sends it’s solidarity and a message of support to workers on London Underground and Transport for London
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Climate Camp, Transport on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
- Climate Camp London sends it’s solidarity and a message of support to workers on London Underground and Transport for London currently being balloted for stike action in response to massive proposed job cuts, the tabled offer from management of a five year pay freeze and the news that two cleaning contractors have reneged on their promise to [...]
