WOMBLES - Casualisation / Workplace

Greece: General Strike demonstrations lead to pitched battles

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:46:01 +0000

from libcom via mw, updated 12 March 2010: "Battle Ground Athens: Second general strike leads to pitched battles... More than 150,000 people took to the streets of Athens against the austerity measures in a mass protest march that has led to extended battles in the Greek capital.

On Thursday March 11 all of Greece came to a 24 hour standstill as a result of the second general strike to be called within less than a month (not the third as reported by foreign media, as the first strike in February only concerned the public sector)..." more

Greece leads Europe's winter of discontent

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:57:20 +0000

from independent, 24 February 2010: "A wave of industrial and social unrest is building across Europe as workers resist attempts by governments and private companies to impose austerity policies, drive down wages and rescue some nations from near-bankruptcy. Huge protest rallies took place in cities across Spain last night; today a general strike could paralyse Greece while industrial action at French airports and oil plants as well as the narrowly averted stoppage at Germany's Lufthansa promise to be just the start of the greatest demonstration of public unrest seen on the continent since the revolutionary fervour of 1968..." more

Rio de Janeiro: Control of the poor seen as crucial for the 2016 Olympics

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:54:17 +0000

via no2010, 9 February 2010: "The prospect of the FIFA World Cup in 2014 followed by the Olympic Games in 2016 has reignited the debate about public security in a country where there is an undeclared war taking place in the favelas between the military police, paramilitary groups, and drug traffickers, but where the principal victims are the poor..." more

Making the 2010 World Cup work for the poor and working class

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:10:21 +0000

from infoshop, 27 January 2010: "The following leaflet was distributed by members of the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) and the Orlando West study circle on anarchism at a football tournament in an informal settlement in Soweto..." more

Visteon workers fight on

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:26:18 +0000

from freedom, 13 January 2010: "Workers at the car part manufacturers who won a momentous battle for redundancy payment from Ford motor giants last year are still locked in a bitter dispute with their ex-employers over money owed through the pension fund after the collapse of Visteon UK..." more

Hackney Heckler community newspaper launched!

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:16:10 +0000

from hackney, 3 October 2009: "Hackney's only truly independent non-commercial community newspaper, Hackney Heckler is launched October 3rd 2009 by the Hackney Solidarity Network. Hackney Solidarity Network aims to provide a space where both individuals and groups involved in campaigns or interested in campaigning, from across Hackney, can come to network, to report back on and share information on what they are doing..." more

Newswires: Vestas Solidarity

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:12:45 +0000

Updated daily: Articles from external newswires filtered for the keywords: Vestas, turbine, Isle of Wight... more

Newswires: Poverty

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:59:58 +0000

Updated daily: Articles from external newswires filtered for the keywords: poverty, poor, unemployed, workfare... more

COP15: Precarious United for Climate Action

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:16:45 +0000

from interactivist, 23 September 2009: "On December 12, the precarious organizing the postcapitalist mayday of precarious and migrants in many cities of Europe and Japan (and Canada: no border, no precarity!) call onto all friends and accomplices across Europe + world to join forces behind the "Precarious United for Climate Action" banner, joining the anticapitalist block at the big demonstration that will gather every single environmental organization and activist group on the planet voicing the need for climate justice and the responsibility of global capitalism for environmental disaster, marching from Parliament to Summit..." more

Britain, Anarchist journal Direct Action #47 - Occupy and Defy: the Visteon workers’ struggle & their union

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:38:41 +0000

from ainfos, 28 August 2009: "Over the spring, hundreds of workers at three car parts manufacturing plants across the UK were made redundant. In response, workers occupied the plants and, in doing so, demonstrated that any protection we might have from the ravages of this recession will come not from the generosity of employers, politicians or trade union bosses but from the action we take as rank and file workers..." more

Court rules that Vesta workers can be evicted immediately

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:49:12 +0000

from Undercurrents, updated 7 August 2009: "Breaking News - the court case in Newport, Isle of Wight has just been heard over the Vesta workers who are occupying their own factory making wind turbines. The court has just ruled this morning that Bailiffs are free to enter the factory to evict the striking workers from the Vesta factory. Activists including the band Seize the Day have spent the entire night on the roof of the factory in solidarity with the workers..." more

A Post-Fordist struggle: Report & reflections on the UK Ford-Visteon dispute 2009

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:32:13 +0000

from interactivist, 8 July 2009: "NEW PAMPHLET FROM PAST TENSE - On 31st of March 2009 Ford/Visteon announced the closure of three factories in the UK and the sacking of 610 workers. The company was declared insolvent and put into receivership: workers were sacked with only a few minutes notice. No guarantees were given concerning redundancy or pensions payments..." more

Olympic Dream or Workers' Nightmare? - IWW report on working conditions at the London 2012 Olympics site

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:54:50 +0000

from hsn, 29 June 2009: "This report documents and critically analyses the working conditions of construction workers on the Stratford City development site of the 2012 Olympic Games. We base our findings entirely on the accounts of anonymous IWW and non-IWW construction workers employed there. The report documents widespread mismanagement and a lack of resources devoted to ensuring that health and safety standards are maintained. Police intimidation of workers and harassment union activists is also documented..." more

El Libertario: Campaign against the assassination of workers in Venezuela

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:43:48 +0000

from ainfos, 20 June 2009: "This past May 5 union leader Argenis Vasquez, organizing secretary in the union at Toyota’s plant in Cumana, was gunned down by thugs as he left his house. This assassination occurred just after a month-long strike demanding improvements. The murdered worker was a leader of the protest and key in confrontations with the company and the management..." more

WSM: Thinking about Anarchism: what can a strike achieve?

Fri, 29 May 2009 12:20:25 +0000

from wsm, 27 May 2009: "People often pose the question, what can a strike achieve? The WSM policy on trade unions states the following: “What is anarchism? When we get down to basics, it is workers collectively running a free society. Instead of taking orders from the boss and serving his/her mad rush for profit at any cost, it is about working together for the common good..." more