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The workers are employed by ETA Star International, who produce cement at their factory in Sumbe.

It might be early for an electoral gain such as that of the Greek parties Syriza and KKE; yet, the Italian communists have raised their heads.

While the Parliament was voting to raise the retirement age, Solidarity organized some symbolic protests. Symbolic because you cannot fight this war by avoiding strikes at every time. Instead of even a symbolic one-day general strike, or thousands marching the streets, a few hundred unionists came out.

Since the end of Spring Festival, which generally makes China's industrial towns very quiet as everyone goes back to their home town for a couple of weeks, there has been a new resurgence in worker's struggles.

The following is not a commentary on, much less a defense of, David Graeber – with whom I disagree. It is a critique of key facets of the ideology of Andrew Kliman.

The Palestinian prisoner solidarity network Addameer has confirmed that the mass hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners has ended after a deal was reached that met some of the prisoner’s demands.

Here is the statement from Addameer, or you can click here to read it on their website:

In 2010 Equitalia collected 8.87 billion euros; its profits for the same year came to 1.29 billion euros (Report), with 1.22 billion coming from the 9% commission premium that Equitalia charged on top of the 4% interest that debtors owed to different public administratio

Working in education myself and generally being pissed off since Michael Wilshaw's inflammatory comments, I spent an hour today alongside NUT activists leafleting students as they left Queen's Park Community school.

TRIGGER WARNING: POLICE VIOLENCE AND GRAPHIC IMAGES

For a while I have thought it would be good for someone to have a blog on libcom dedicated to keeping track of police violence.

Because the protest was organized by the wife of the deceased, it has been called the “widows’ march” and has mobilised around one hundred people who, bringing white flags and pictures of suicidal entrepreneurs, wanted to remember all the “tax victims”. Many of them where entrepreneurs or tradespeople who demanded more sustainable taxation and careful attention to their problems.

As of this writing there has been no decision made by the Israeli authorities concerning the demands of the 2,000 Palestinians currently on hunger strike. Six of the Palestinians on hunger strike have been striking for at least seven weeks.

Workers at Peckham Vocational Industries in Michigan, a not for profit company that provides job training and employment for disabled workers are in the process of forming a trade union.

On the 6th of May, a lot of anarchists took part in almost all events which occured in Moscow. There was a peaceful march from Kaluzhskаja to Bolotnaja square, after that it became clear that the entrance was forbidden for people, protesting against the inauguration of Putin.

At around 15.30, five instantly recognisable boneheads from the Infidels of Britain, Combined Ex Forces, and the National Front arrived a

Berlusconi’s party, the PDL, dramatically lost consensus, dropping to a meagre 8.2% in L’Aquila (still a ghost town after the 2009 earthquake), and 12.7% in Genoa.

Sassoon, dubbed the "anti-fascist warrior hairdresser" by the Telegraph joined the East End-based 43 Group as a 17-year-old trainee hairdresser.

NUT and NASUWT, the two largest teaching unions, are issuing the strike ballot to members in an attempt to halt the expansion of the academies program through conversions. Academies are publicly funded, but run independent of local authorities and amount to the creeping privatisation of state schools.

I've finally got round to doing something with the audio recording of the event which is now available on Youtube accompanied by various images.

A People's History of the US by Howard Zinn:

The hunger strike that began with 1,000 participants in mid-April has now grown to 2,000 according to the the Palestinian prisoner support network Addameer.