repression
Articles about state or employers repression and legal, police, military or paramilitary intimidation or violence against workers or social movements.
Police state rehearsed in Athens
New repressive and legislative measures aim to create state of siege for the Greek capital.
After holding meetings with the Scotland Yard as well as American security advisers, the frail Greek government with only one MP majority has announced the imposition of draconian measures aimed to halt the rising social antagonistic movement across the country.
From repression to revolution - speech by Kenneth V. Cockrel
Kenneth V. Cockrel's speech at a repression conference in Detroit outlining some problems with the focus of radical black groups away from struggle and towards fighting repression.
The ensuing speech was made by Kenneth V. Cockrel at a repression conference held at Saint Joseph's Church, January 30, 1970, under the planning and sponsorship of Newsreel in Detroit. The speakers were Robert Williams, former President of the Republic of New Africa; Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party; and Attorney Kenneth V.
Right to strike under threat in Italy
The Italian government is in the process of examining a new bill which will restrict the right to call a strike. The bill might become soon a law.
The bill will introduce a so-called “virtual strike” (you call the strike but you go to work) for the categories of workers considered “essential” and the possibility to call a strike for the workers within the public transport only for those unions which have 50 per cent of representation of the sector. These are only two examples of the novelties this bill will lead to.
1985: Battle of the beanfield
A short account of the brutal police attack on a convoy of travellers and others on their way to the annual the Stonehenge Free Festival.
[I] "All of us were shocked by what we saw: police tactics which seemed to break new grounds in the scale and intensity of its violence.
Tense week in Greece: cultural centre occupied, protest erupts in clashes, doctors stage 48-hour strike
Tension rises again in Greece with protest marches and occupations of public buildings against repression, as well as 48 doctor strike which sees new methods of struggle like occupying hospital cashiers.
In a week thick with solidarity actions to the arrested insurgents of the December uprising in Greece, the posh newly opened Municipal Cultural Centre at Touba, Thessaloniki, has been occupied by local radicals, announcing a programme of public discussions on the insurgency and its repression, as well as screenings on labour struggles since the collapse of the junta.
Israeli wildcat strikers kicked out of union
In unprecedented move, the Histadrut union federation has ousted leaders of last weeks wildcat strike on Israel Railways.
The action paves the way for Israel Railways management to prosecute the six workers committee members as if they were regular employees.
Sugar workers strike against bosses and union, striking airport workers fired in Guyana
Guyanese sugar workers have taken wildcat action against a disappointing pay award and their union's attempt to take a larger cut from it. Meanwhile, Guyana's Minister of Transport and Hydraulics Robeson Benn has fired 15 air traffic controllers who had been on strike for a week.
Operations at the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Wales Estate were at a standstill for the second day in a row, when approximately 100 workers of the estate staged a strike, this time protesting against 0.79 percent of the Annual Production Incentive (API) being contributed to the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union’s (GAWU) funds.
Protests resume in Athens
Protesters and riot police have clashed in central Athens today during a protest calling for the release of prisoners arrested during last month's riots, as farmers continued a week-long road blockade over prices.
The clashes occurred outside the University of Athens, as police charged with batons and pepper spray, while protesters used sticks and stones. Several hundred people were involved in the protests, and around 300 continued a march through the town centre. The International Herald Tribune reported that most participants were anarchists.
Seoul: police attack occupied building, kill protestors
Six dead, many injured and arrested after police attack protestors near American Military Base.
Yongsan in Seoul is to be "redeveloped", that is gentrified. This is effecting not only residents, but many small family-run businesses in the area. Members of the Committee of Residents Forced Out of Yongsan District 4 in Seoul and the National Coalition of Forcefully Relocated People decided on Jan. 19 to occupy a building in protest.
Emergency appeal from fired IWW truckers
Truckers organizing with the IWW in North Carolina and Virginia dealing with retaliation, need support.
The IWW has been organizing Truck Drivers in Eastern North Carolina and Virginia for much of the past year. In response to our growing power and planned founding convention this upcoming weekend, the bosses have begun firing the union's leadership. Two log drivers and five container haulers have lost their job over the past two days. [more recent reports say 27 now out of work.]
