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Haiti earthquake - statement from Batay Ouvriye

Position statement on the devastating Haiti earthquake and its aftermath by Haitian workers' organisation Batay Ouvriye.

POSITION STATEMENT
After the January 12, 2010 Earthquake

University of Sussex occupied against cuts

106 students occupying the top floor of Bramber House, Sussex University

Over 100 students have occupied a conference centre at the University of Sussex in Brighton against proposed course cuts and job losses.

The occupiers released a statement:

We have occupied the top floor of Bramber House, University of Sussex, Brighton. There are 106 of us.

The decision to occupy has been taken after weeks of concerted campaigning during which the university management have repeatedly failed to take away the threat of compulsory redundancies and course cuts.

Fascist anti-immigration stunt thwarted by anarchist counter-demo in Athens

The fascist anti-immigration demo called for Saturday noon at Propylea in Athens was thwarted by a massive counter-demo of anarchists and antifascists.

The racist demo against immigration had been called by the Secret Services controlled pro-junta weekly paper Stohos, various ultra-Orthodox christian groups as well as a melange of other fascist groups and parties.

Summary of the global day of protest in solidarity with FAU Berlin

On january 29/30, 2010, there were protests in at least 56 cities in 20 countries against a verdict that prohibits workers in Berlin from affiliating themselves with the union of their choice. The bosses at the Babylon Mitte Cinema managed to find a court to ban the FAU Berlin workers association from calling itself a union and are now trying to get the FAU Berlin charged with fines or even imprisoned. The is a month-long labor dispute between the FAU shop-floor and the management. More information about the conflict can be found at the FAU German language special section and our English language special section.

We received reports about protests at Aachen (Germany), Berlin (Germany), Bonn (Germany), Darmstadt (Germany), Duisburg (Germany), Düsseldorf (Germany), Frankfurt/M (Germany), Fukuoka (Japan), Halle/Saale (Germany), Hamburg (Germany), Hannover (Germany), Karlsruhe (Germany), Kassel (Germany), Kiel (Germany), Leipzig (Germany), Moers (Germany), Münster (Germany), Nürnberg (Germany), Recklinghausen

Shipping traffic halted by wildcat strike in Finland

More than half of Finland's was brought to a standstill on Tuesday 2 February by a wildcat strike by 1000 stevedores in seven ports.

The Swedish Wire reported:
"Seven ports have informed us that operations are at a standstill and workers have gone on an illegal strike," Juha Mutru, chief executive of the Finnish Port Operators Association, told AFP.

"Container traffic is more or less at a standstill, and more than half of Finland's freight traffic has ground to a halt," he said.

Strikes greet austerity measures in Greece

Less than 24h after the announcement of the hardest austerity measures in the history of the greek republic, strikes have erupted in the public sector.

Tax-collectors and customs officers have been the first public sector branches to spontaneously react to the government's austerity measures. The two public sector branches have gone on a 48h preemptive strike, halting all tax-office transactions and controls as well as freezing import-export activities.

Life of a Daily Mail hack

A blog detailing the abuse suffered by reporters at the Daily Mail was quickly removed this week when it was picked up on by the Guardian and a number of media-watching blogs. Reproduced here are the missing blog posts detailing life in the newsroom under conservative tyrant Paul Dacre.

The editor is prone to issuing edicts which he contradicts within hours, or sometimes even minutes. For example he said at Afternoon Conference a few weeks ago that weather stories were an absolute priority. ‘Do I need to have it written in letters a foot high on the notice board behind the back bench that we must have weather stories?’ he said.

Después de 10 años de comunismo libertario

[...]el encuentro debió haber servido para iniciar un proceso de maduración cualitativa respecto de las formas concretas en que los anarquista comunistas deben empezar a agruparse y a intervenir en los procesos diversos que presenta la lucha de clases en situaciones reales [...]

Después de 10 años de comunismo libertario

“Toda causa exige esfuerzos y sacrificios constantes. El anarquismo debe encontrar una unidad de voluntad y una voluntad de acción, obtener una noción exacta de su rol histórico. El anarquismo debe penetrar en el corazón de las masas, fundirse con ellas.”

Piotr Archinov, 1921

Victory for SeaSol and tenants at Kasota

Tenants fight back against rent increases and win relocation assistance

"No margin for blockades or strikes" announces the Greek PM before tide of labour action

A week before the start of a tide of labour action, the Greek Socialist PM Papandreou the Third has announced him government sees "no margin for blockades and strikes".

The Greek PM and leader of the Socialist Party (PASOK) and the Socialist International, George Papandreou has once again revealed the real face of his government by announcing that there are no "margins for blockades and strikes".