On October 12, over 20000 Ukrainian students came to the streets to protest the decision of the government to allow public universities to introduce new burdening fees. A total of 15 cities were protesting, from the West to the East of the country. Major rallies were held in Kiev, Lviv, Kharkov, Uzhhorod and Simferopol. Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhitomir, Kamyanets-Podolsk, Sumy, Khmelnitsky, Kirovograd, Lugansk, Lutsk and Sevastopol were protesting as well.

We have received an initiative from "Los Solidarios" in Peru and enclose a leaflet they have made. The terrific working conditions and exploitation in the textile firm are described. The appeal is also directed to the consumers of the ZARA, a firm which has shops in many places of the world (www.zara.com), and also other firms that use Topy Topy as a sub-contractor as INDIDEX. There will be actions against the exploitation on Saturday October 9th!

With reference to the appeal from the International Secretary of the Spanish CNT-AIT, the Secretariat is receiving copies of support to the CNT-AIT and their  mobilizations for the General Strike tomorrow  Wednesday September 29. The Spanish workers  and the CNT-AIT need all  the support and solidarity they can get against the hard attacks that are planned by the Spanish Government!

The new labor reform that the PSOE is trying to introduce is the biggest aggression against workers rights that has been proposed in the post -Franco years of democracy.

The strike day should serve as a trigger to further and wider protests.

The CNT is sending a call for solidarity to all union organizations to support the workers' struggle on the day of the General Strike, September 29, 2010.

The Capitalist system is in crisis and there are attacks on all fronts against  the workers conditions and rights. Goverments are desperate, and they are playing dangerous cards, as the Berlusconi government that in 2008 started a witch-hunt against the Roma people and immigrants, and now the Sarkozy government in France that is deporting the Roma.

SOV Cordoba (CNT-AIT) asks for solidarity from the IWA in the conflict we have against the multinational EULEN.

EULEN is a company basically dedicated to the service sector (cleaning, maintenance, social healthcare services, security, etc. ) specializing in subcontracting services to the public administration and to large companies.

It is therefore one of the main spearheads of privatization and outsourcing of public services and the worsening of working conditions, even having its temporary work agency, FLEXIPLAN.

Yesterday the Labor Reform decree-law signed by the Council of Ministers was published. This bill will still need to pass through parliament and will most probably be modified. As is it's a botched job so there's no question that after the required formalities it will come out revised and bearing substantial changes. That said, the fundamental lines have already been laid down and we can say that it is the fiercest attack on the working class' rights since the founding of democracy in Spain [1978].

On 14th July, at the Lisbon Criminal Court, the Judge read the final decision of the trial against the “Lisbon 11”, detained during the police repression of the anti-authoritarian demonstration against fascism and capitalism of 25th April 2007. All the defendants were acquitted of the charges against them as the Judge considered that there were no evidences to condemn them.