Europe

Greek students demand free education

BY SOFIE BUCKLAND, NUS NEC (PERSONAL CAPACITY) At this year's NUS conference, despite the left's invocation of the militant student struggles in France, the right-wing of the union succeeded in overturning NUS's policy on education funding and introduced a policy in favour of means-tested grants. In contrast to the British student movement's failure to understand the lessons of the anti-CPE struggle, Greek students spent May and June fighting against the privatisation of their education. When the Greek student assembly declared "we're going to do what they did in France", they meant it. This...

European Network for Public Services

Dear friends from the European Network for Public Services, This message is sent to all people registered on the list we made during the last saturday session. The RAS (an activist Host ) is ready to contribute by hosting our collective tool . We propose to name our mailing list "athens-sp@ras.eu.org". We will use it to discuss the Athen's statement, to send informations, to exchange on the public services issue in the future etc. When a message is sent to this adress, all people registered behind it will receive the message. In the same time, we propose to each organization who took part to...

Unison Northern Region proposal on European Network of Public services

this proposal is going to Northern region of unison from Newcastle City Branch delegates to Esf from Northern Region

Ed

EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM 2006

Public services were a major theme at the 4th ESF held in Athens, between
4th 7th May 2006, with 7 linked seminars culminating in a final...

European Social Forum in Athens

A group of AWL members are attended the 4th European Social Forum here in Athens.

This 4th ESF is smaller than its predecessors with approx 10,000 people registered (50,000 was the figure given for the first ESF in florence in 2006)

Notably from Britain after the previous ESF in London there is no...

Where is the ESF going?

The fourth European Social Forum (ESF) will take place in Athens on 6-9 April 2006. The ESF has come a long way since the first, chaotic event in Florence in 2002, and the Athens event will be big, vibrant and inspiring. Vicki Morris asks what more we should be getting out of the ESF With many lessons learned, there is now a permanent framework of organisers and timetable of meetings for the European Social Forum (ESF), and the events are the better for it. The main forum for organisation is the European Preparatory Assembly (EPA); this met last in Istanbul on 22-25 September. The personnel of...

Debate & Discussion: A new era for Europe

About 200 organisers from across Europe met in Paris on 24-25 June, on the initiative of Expaces Marx (close to the French Communist Party) and the Fondation Copernic (Socialist Party people who voted “no” to the Euro-constitution). The French CP called for a cross-Europe petition “to have the ‘no’ vote respected” and the French LCR backed it; ATTAC announced its “ABC” plan for a “democratic refoundation of Europe”. The same day, 700 activists met in Nanterre (near Paris) for a national gathering of the 900 “collectives for a left-wing no” set up before the 29 May referendum. There was debate...

Drivers plot strategy

Lorry driver trade unionists from across Europe, who held a conference in Eastbourne on 6 May, had a steering group meeting in Malmö, Sweden, in early June. Suggestions for organisation included a drive for common Europe-wide criteria for safe and adequate rest facilities; common guidelines for securing a sectoral guaranteed minimum wage, by collective agreement or by law; and a demand for better cross border cooperation on control and enforcement of social legislation and labour market legislation. www.one888truckdrivers.org.uk/newsblog.html

Euromayday: rights for all

By Vicki Morris Mayday in Europe, in addition to the traditional marches, witnessed a number of “Euromayday” events. The organisers are more or less anarchistic activists involved in struggles of the unemployed and insecurely employed and are generally scornful of the “organised” labour movement. In general, that attitude isn’t helpful. However, the aims of the movement — to organise the unorganised, to foster rank and file control of struggles, to link struggles — are good aims. In France Euromayday was organised by Stop Précarité, a network for various struggles against “précarité” (the...

Truck drivers: end European exploitation

Truck drivers from across Europe have agreed to work towards more European-wide trade union co-operation to tackle problems on social dumping, security and health as well as organising in pan-European companies. At a conference attended by over eighty delegates from nine EU conference at the T&G Centre in Eastbourne, delegates highlighted action on these points as well as individual country concerns. Jimmy Hill for the T&G said the union’s key concern was to implement the “Drivers’ Charter” so that we can push for a national minimum for drivers of £10 an hour or £25,000 a year for a 48 hour...

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