Beat back the racists!
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Racists. Rich racists. Media billionaires cynically using racism to create scapegoats. Britain has too many of them.
Solidarity 3/48, 18 March 2004
No deportations! Support hunger strikers!
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The National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns (NCADC) is urging support for three Iranian Kurds from Glasgow who have been on hunger strike for three weeks.
Nonviolent resistance to Wall goes unreported
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From Gush Shalom
Just two days after Madrid the sickening images are once again coming from closer to home, with the news of a suicide bombing at the Israeli port of Ashdod. Once again the cycle of bloodshed is rolling on. (And, once again a day of mass, unarmed Palestinian resistance was overshadowed by the acts of two young desperados.) For the players on both sides of the lethal ping-pong, casualties are instrumentalized into ammunition, into a licence to kill the other side's men, women, old and young.
The miners' strike 1984-5: The events
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The second in our series looking back at the miners' strike details the events up to April 1984.
21 March 1984: power unions (including the GMB) advise their members to cross picket lines. Steelworkers will also cross picket lines.
Workers of the World - ROUND-UP
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- Zanón factory - two years under workers' control
- Anti-privatisation protest in Thailand
- Korean workers win wider union rights
Zanón factory - two years under workers' control
Oppose Blunkett's anti-terror measures!
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UK current legislation includes the Terrorism Act 2000, enacted to harmonise the separate laws covering Britain and Northern Ireland.
Guantanamo, anti-terrorism legislation - War on terror: war on rights
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By Rosalind Robson
It will be a long time before the full truth emerges about the penal camps on the US military base at Guantanamo Bay - if indeed the truth ever does emerge. Despite nearly 100 releases so far, as many as 660 men are still being held in conditions of near secrecy.
Play Fair at the Olympics
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In the lead-up to the Athens Olympic Games in August, the Clean Clothes Campaign, Oxfam and trade unions across the world will be campaigning for sportswear workers' rights.
The campaign was launched on 4 March with events in more than 25 countries.
In Canada, Bruce Kidd, a Canadian athlete, raised a clothes-line of brand name sportswear with statistics highlighting the abuse of workers' rights.
Haiti - Poverty and instability
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Mark Osborn spoke to Charles Arthur of the Haiti Support Group about the situation in Haiti now
Charles explains: the current US intervention numbers about 1,500 troops, and the total foreign force comes to about 2,500.
Haiti Free Trade Zone - Paramilitaries are helping the bosses
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An attempt to violently break the union-organising drive at the Ouanaminthe Free Trade Zone in north-east Haiti on 1-2 March has been met by a wave of international solidarity in support of the Haitian trade unionists.