Benefits withdrawn to punish low-waged workers for striking
Submitted by Ramona on Jun 17 2012 21:39
The "right to strike" in the UK comes under further attack today, as Iain Duncan Smith announces plans to withdraw Working Tax Credit for workers who take strike action.
Mauritanian mining strike over - workers win their demands
Submitted by Ramona on Jun 14 2012 15:47
This time last week libcom reported on striking gold miners in Mauritania - after five days of strike action, the miners have won their demands and returned to work.
Oakland parents and teachers announce plans to sit-in to stop school closures
Submitted by Ramona on Jun 12 2012 19:14
As 5 elementary schools are set for closure at the end of this school year, displacing around 900 children to schools 10 miles away with no transport provided, parents and teachers announce plans to sit-in to save their schools.
600 Mauritanian gold miners launch illegal work stoppage
Submitted by Ramona on Jun 7 2012 16:24
Around 600 miners employed by Kinross, Canada's third largest gold miner, walked off the job on Monday 4th June.
Free CeCe, the girl who lived
Submitted by Ramona on Jun 5 2012 17:59
CeCe McDonald is a transgender woman of colour, who survived a brutal assault by racist transphobes, which left her seriously injured and one of her attackers dead. She was yesterday (4th June 2012) sentenced to 41 months after being convicted of second degree manslaughter, which she is likely to serve in an all-male prison.
Safer spaces, false allegations, and the NYC Anarchist Bookfair
Submitted by Ramona on Apr 26 2012 00:12
I've written this blog in response to another thread on this site, discussing the safer spaces policy at the NYC Anarchist Bookfair 2012, and why I'm not convinced we need to be too preoccupied with the possibility of false rape accusations.
TRIGGER WARNING: sexual violence
100,000,000 workers grind India to a halt in one of world's biggest strikes ever
Submitted by Ramona on Feb 28 2012 11:57
One of the world's largest ever strikes began at midnight on Monday 27th Feb and will end at midnight tonight. Up to 100,000,000 Indian workers from different sectors and industries are calling for a national minimum wage, permanent jobs, and much more.
'Treat' domestic violence with homeopathy!
Submitted by Ramona on Jan 17 2012 18:57
Twitter today pointed out this horrific, unbelievably offensive article, titled 'Homeopathy for Domestic Violence and Abuse'. Hopefully, the title alone will be enough to fill you with materialist outrage, but I'm going to have a little rant about it anyway.
Trigger warning: domestic abuse
Trigger warnings, and why we use them
Submitted by Ramona on Jan 15 2012 22:52
Last week, I added a 'trigger warning' to this thread. We've not really used these on libcom as a matter of course before, except for adding one to the introduction of Liberté Locke's excellent piece on workplace organising and sexual violence, 'My body, my rules'. But what are trigger warnings, and why do we use them?
Occupy everything! Students across the UK go into occupation for national day of action...
Submitted by Ramona on Nov 23 2011 22:17
NCAFC called a national day of action for November 23rd, a week ahead of the massive public sector strike on November 30th. Several universities have now gone into occupation...
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