The German Campaign for Free Education

International statement against war and against Saddam Hussein. Initiated in the American antiwar movement, now supported by people and groups across the world, including Workers' Liberty.

At this site, you can read this statement in several languages, download it as a PDF, and add your name. Please do.

"We hope the website will provide a forum for the latest news, information and discussion about Academies. The website is there to provide support and publicity for the growing number of local campaigners."

Activist anti-fascist group, critical of what it refers to as the 'middle-class left', favours physical confrontation with the fash and building roots in working-class communities. Food for thought.

SWP-dominated and heavily criticised for its 'popular-front' strategy, this site is nevertheless useful for information and campaigning news.

"ATTAC is the Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens. ATTAC was founded in France in 1998. It promotes the idea of an international tax on currency speculation (the Tobin Tax) and campaigns to outlaw tax havens, replace pension funds with state pensions, cancel Third World debt, reform or abolish the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and, more generally, recapture the democratic space that has been lost to the financial world."

Huge collecction of news, listings, and links to women's organisations worldwide. UK based. This will take you to the main index: www.aviva.org/tree.htm

Website of the 'Network to end refugee and migrant detention'.

US-based site - busy and informative.

Campaigninf for a higher, non-means-tested bursary for nursing students. Includes online petition.

Website of the magazine CARF.

"CAAT campaigns for the reduction and ultimate abolition of the international arms trade and the UK's role in it as a leading arms exporter."

The Campaign for Free Education is THE left faction in the National Union of Students (UK).

"The CEE [Central and Eastern Europe] Bankwatch Network's mission is to prevent environmentally and socially harmful impacts of international development finance, and to promote alternative solutions and public participation."

"The CCA aims to increase worker and public safety through promoting law enforcement and corporate criminal accountability."

Campaigns "to improve working conditions in the garment industry worldwide."

The campaign to close Campsfield immigration detention centre.

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK)

Has campaign information and downloadable leaflets.

Useful site if you are gathering information about a particular capitalist enterprise and its sins. Includes a very handy guide to researching a company.

American website dedicated to 'holding corporations accountable'.

"A celebration of alternatives to the car, pollution, accidents and noise". Organises monthly bike rides in big cities. Also organises anti-war protests.

Website of the 'Defend Council Housing' campaign (UK), fighting against the transfer of public housing stock to private landlords

Good source of information on ESF (in London?) 2004. An independent site run by people who want to see open, democratic organisation of the ESF. Not the SWP or Ken Livingstone, then.

Based in the Netherlands, "EARN (European Anti-Racism Network) is a working group of black and migrant trade unionists ... EARN pleads for the fight against (institutional) racism at the work-place. "

"Your independent sources of information about the world's largest food service company." This site is maintained by the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union, and is currently under construction.

Satpal is still in prison, unjustly convicted of murder after defending himself against racist attackers.

"Defending human rights worldwide"

Website of the Ilisu Dam Campaign, established to fight the Turkish Government's plan to build a dam that would displace thousands of Kurdish people, and supported by the British Government through the Export Credit Guarantee Department. Also campaigns about similar projects and on the role of the ECGD.

Website of International Labor Rights Fund who research and campaign for workers' rights worldwide. Research downloadable and urgent action appeals.

Self-explanatory.

Campaign for a full inquiry into the deaths by hanging of two black men from the same family in Telford, West Midlands.

The official website of the Justice for Ricky Reel campaign.

Local campaign against health service cuts and privatisation in Hackney, East London

US trade unions supporting the fight to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black journalist and militant falsely convicted of murder and awaiting execution.

Labour Party and trade union campaign against the 'war on terror'.

"Labour Behind the Label is a membership organisation which brings together pressure groups, trade unions and individuals in support of garment workers' efforts to improve their working conditions and wages.
"It draws attention to the plight of garment workers everywhere, including Britain, and works to facilitate information exchange and international solidarity between workers and consumers.
"Labour Behind the Label is the UK platform of the European Clean Clothes Campaign."

That's 'Labour' as in 'labour movement' - you do not have to be a member of the Labour Party to be a member of LCLGR. It has done lots of sterling work over the last couple of decades to push the issue of LGB rights onto the labour movement's agenda.

Website for Labour Party members to express their concerns, even opposition, to war against iraq. A bit amateurish, but hey.

News and advice on rights for lesbian, gay and bisexual workers.

The lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender committee of trade union MSF.

"The London Tenants Federation aims to provide a strong voice for London's council tenants, to facilitate the exchange of our ideas, views and experiences and to support joint campaigning on housing issues."

Lancaster shopkeeper, Mal Hussein, has been subjected to constant racist abuse for 8 years. Read about his case here.

"McDonald's spends over $2 billion a year broadcasting their glossy image to the world. This is a small space for alternatives to be heard."

"Committee to Defend Women's Rights in the Middle East - CDWRME is founded and struggles for women's human rights, individual freedom and civil rights.

"We believe that secularism and the separation of religion from the state are the basic pre-conditions for women’s liberation in the Middle East. "

Website carrying information about many imprisoned people who claim they are victims of miscarriages of justice.

Mumia - a long-standing black activist and journalist - was fitted up by US police and sentenced to death for the murder of a police officer. Over his long years in prison, on death row, he has continued to campaign for justice.

"Bringing together families and individuals fighting deportation."

Campaigning against sweatshops in the UK and worldwide. Excellent and active campaign, whose activities range from raising funds for Indonesian trade unionists to getting East London sweatshops unionised.

Campaigning organisation with up-to-date, newsy site.

"provides links to street-reclaiming direct action around the world."

Details of New Labour's links with big business.

A website about the racist murder of Ricky Reel, set up by one of his freinds.

Website of anti-fascist magazine Searchlight

Very much oriented to lobbying and establishment politics, Stonewall's website is nonetheless useful for information and news.

Coalition against 'war on terror'

Website for students involved in anti-war campaigning. You can post news and reports, and take part in discussions.

US website. Watches sweatshops.

Fights for an end to privatisation and selection in schools and a fully comprehensive education system.

Website dedicated to raising gay issues in elections. Hardly revolutionary, but a source of information and news, and with a few opportunities to post your opinions.

A recently-launched coalition of campaigners, union leaders and various political groups, UAF is active and high-profile, but shares some of the political and tactical weaknesses of its predecessor, the Anti-Nazi League.

US coalition against war in Iraq - campaigning since October 2002. A useful source of rpeorts on US anti-war movement. Seems to have lots of groups involved, including some socialists.

US campaigning organisation linking student activists at over 200 colleges.

Activist campaign against sanctions on Iraq, and now against war. Up-to-date site - a good place to find news of upcoming protest actions.

Website dedicated to dishing the dirt on the the big, American, anti-worker, anti-union corporation.

WAF was launched in 1989 to challenge the rise of fundamentalism in all religions ... by fundamentalism we do not mean religious observance, which we see as a matter of individual choice. We mean rather modern political movements which use religion as a basis for their attempt to win or consolidate power and extend social control. "

"Women Living Under Muslim Laws is an international Network that provides information, solidarity and support for all women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam."

Manchester-based group aiming to support women's workers' struggles around the world. Involved in anti-sweatshop campaigning

Charity for women and children escaping domestic violence. Website includes statistics and research, and campaign information.

News about women's rights issues around the world, links, etc.

Website of the Women, work and health conference held in Sweden in June 2002. Academic tone but lots of ideas for discussion