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Heavy sentences for four anti-CPE protestors
France: On Friday 10 November four people were jailed for their role in the struggle against the employment law the CPE.
On Friday 10th November four militants, Jean-Pascal, Reda, Valentin and Pierre-Louis were sentenced by the court in Aix-en-Provence. All four were accused of "rebellion" and "violence towards members of the police force in the performance of their duties" during events as part of the anti-CPE movement.
Employers who fail to pay employee tax and National Insurance
A guide for workers on dealing with employers who don't pay employee taxes or National Insurance. This can leave you unable to claim benefits if you become ill or unemployed.
Here’s a real case of fraud that the government does nothing to stop meaning that rip-off bosses keep getting away with it.
Many people are unaware of a problem until they become unemployed or sick and need to claim contributory-based benefits. They will be refused these benefits and cannot win their appeal if no National Insurance has been paid.
Key employment rights
Knowing your rights: The stuff your boss doesn't want you to know. A brief guide to your rights at work in the UK as of 2003-4.
Regardless of work status (temporary or permanent, agency, full or part-time) or our contracts of employment, most of us have certain basic rights. These include:
1. The right to be told in writing how much and when we are to be paid.
Terrorism Act 2000 guide
A quick guide and brief summary of the parts of the British Terrorism Act 2000 of relevance to radical workers.
"Terrorism" is defined very widely and could include what people would normally think of as direct action. It gives the Police very wide powers to stop search and arrest, and limits people's rights - including on arrest.
Section 60 advice guide
Some information and tips on the law, your rights, and how to react when police have enforced a "Section 60" order on a demonstration or picket.
At some recent demonstrations, police have cordoned off the demonstration, corralling large numbers of people into an increasing confined area before taking their names, addresses and photographs, eventually releasing them one by one. This was done under the obscure Section 60 of the Criminal Justice & Public Order Act 1994 (originally designed to prevent minor football disturbances).
US: Rail bosses sue over "sick-out" wildcat strike
Between September 22 and 24, 80% of the Salt Lake City area's train engineers called in sick in a row over working hours. Now Union Pacific are suing their union.
Paul Beebe in The Salt Lake Tribune reported that in a move that upends conventional wisdom about labor disputes, Union Pacific Railroad Co. has sued the union representing Salt Lake City-area train engineers who walked off their jobs because they couldn't work as many hours as they wished.
Section 6 legal notice for squats
A legal warning notice on Section 6 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 which protects the rights of occupiers of properties.
If you are squatting it is strongly advised you display this notice to inform people of your rights - and let them know that you are aware of your rights
LEGAL WARNING
Section 6 Criminal Law Act 1977
As amended by Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
TAKE NOTICE
THAT we live in this property, it is our home and we intend to stay here.
Bush seeks to avoid human rights violation charges
Bush is trying to pass legislation that would immunise government personnel for abuses against detainees at Guantanamo, in Afghanistan, and in Iraq, including those abuses it authorised.
If the Bush administration is still good at anything, it's this: distracting its opponents and seizing little victories from what might have been big defeats.
House OKs controversial detainee treatment trial bill
The Bush administration’s controversial military commissions and detainee treatment bill is one step closer to being signed into law.
On Wednesday, the House approved its version of the measure, leaving it to a vote in the Senate today. Under the new bill, detainees would be prevented from challenging their imprisonment and denied access to evidence used against them.
1916-1927: The execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
The story of two Italian-born anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, framed for murder and then executed for their beliefs.
"Did
you see what I did to those anarchist bastards?"
- Presiding Judge Webster Thayer
