Refugees resisting state oppression, and solidarity activism in the Netherlands: hunger strikes and more
Submitted by rooieravotr on May 19 2013 17:12
Protest and resistance by refugees and solidarity activists in the Netherlands is meeting serious repression. This is now getting media attention, and provoking new protest as well.
First successes in struggle against against forced labour in the Netherlands
Submitted by Appelschaar on Feb 21 2013 10:34
It has already been over two years since Doorbraak started an experiment in Leiden of using ‘organizing’ elements in the battle against the government cuts. We have reported back a few times, and this time we can report the first actual results!
Joke Kaviaar sentenced - solidarity needed
Submitted by rooieravotr on Jan 29 2013 17:11
Joke Kaviaar, activist and publicist against the oppression, detention and depiortation of refugeesin the Netherlands , has been sentenced to a four months jail sentence for "incitement". Solidarity with refugees should know no borders; solidarity against efforts to censor Joke Kaviaar, and all the ones speaking out against this repression should know no borders either. Joke Kaviaar will not shut up. Neither should we.
Joke Kaviaar, activist/ publicist, under attack by Dutch state - solidarity needed
Submitted by rooieravotr on Jan 12 2013 01:10
Joke Kaviaar, writer/ poet/ anarchist/activist, had been put on trial by the Dutch state for íncitement against public order'. The charge is based on four articles she wrote and published on het website, in which she strongly criticized the oppression, detention and deportation of migrants/ refugees/ people without papers, and called for active resistance aganist these policies
British intervention in Asia
Submitted by wojtek on Nov 10 2012 13:17
A Freedom article dated December, 1945 denouncing British intervention in Indonesia and Indo-China on behalf of Dutch and French colonialism and calling for solidarity and internationalism among workers. Reprinted in Neither East nor West: Selected Writings 1939-1948.
European-wide general strike November 14 - how real? How relevant?
Submitted by rooieravotr on Oct 22 2012 14:24
In at least four countries, there will be a general strike on November 14. There are calls to turn it into a European general strike. What to make of the idea, how to operate most fruitfully in connection to these and similar initiatives, is the subject of this article.
Introducing myself and this blog...
Submitted by rooieravotr on Aug 7 2012 18:25
This is my first blog post, so I might as well introduce myself. Rooieravotr is, in fact, Peter Storm, communist anarchist, living in Tilburg/ the Netherlands.
Netherlands: Cleaners end strike after 105 days
Submitted by rooieravotr on Apr 19 2012 18:10
Cleaners end their long strike, after having been on strike for an impressive 105 days, after an agreement has been reached, with elements that make it seriously less than total victory. The main gains are the gains in confidence and solidarity.
FAU-IWA Supports Polish Workers Against Wage Theft
Along the Low Rhine river, in Germany's outer West and adjacent to the Netherlands, thousands of workers from Poland work under precarious conditions in agriculture and gardening. They get cheated on their wage very often, but sometimes they fight back. The Free Worker's Union (German: Freie Arbeiterinnen- und Arbeiter Union, FAU) does actually practice anarchosyndicalist solidarity with them and thereby demonstrates that borders play no role at all. FAU is the German section of the International Workers Association (IWA).
Action against OTTO employment agency met with police action
Submitted by MT on Mar 21 2011 08:51
A picket against Dutch employment agency OTTO Workforce organized by the Vrije Bond and ZSP in Venrey, where the headquarters of OTTO is began this morning. From the beginning it was met with to the police action.
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