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Centerprise black community bookshop evicted

Submitted by past tense on Nov 11 2012 11:09

The Black community bookshop. cafe and centre, Centreprise, in Dalston, East London was evicted last week.

They had been paying a peppercorn rent of £500 odd a year since 1984, and Hackney Council had demanded this be upped to a market rent of around £37,000. Centreprise claimed that they had bought

A victory in Nizhni Novgorod of Russia - case against anti-fascists was returned to investigation

Submitted by S2W on Nov 2 2012 18:15

18th of October, lenta.ru news service transmitted that judge refused to
sentence defendants of the so called "Antifa-RASH" case in Nizhni
Novgorod. Judge Olga Koloverova demanded police to reinvestigate the
case, in order to exclude contradictions, which are currently obvious.

According to the prosecution, participators of the extremist society
"Antifa-RASH" planned to overthrow constitutional order and to establish
anarchy. According to defendants, this is a fictional organisation made
out by the political police force "E center", and it never existed.

Three persons were accused in the court - Pavel Krivonosov, Dmitri

Housing justice summit bring Rochester housing movement together

Submitted by sxb1831 on Oct 29 2012 17:53

Rochester's housing movement is gearing up for a summit of new ideas and building!

In Rochester, NY, we defend homes going through foreclosure. And that is the bottom line.

Taranto community refuses false choice “health vs jobs”: an example to follow

Submitted by Gabriel Levy on Oct 29 2012 08:07
Residents and workers - against blackmail and tumours!

A "committee of free thinking residents and workers" is demanding that the bosses pay to clean up Italy's biggest steelworks, rather than close it down

Workers at Taranto, Italy’s biggest steel works – which is threatened with closure under anti-pollution rules – are refusing the false choice between their jobs and their community’s health.

No more foreclosures: Rochester's housing movement hits the streets

Submitted by sxb1831 on Oct 23 2012 04:27

On October 16th, Metro Justice, Take Back the Land Rochester, and other community partners came together for a rally and march under the idea that housing is a human right.

“With all of these empty houses and all of these homeless people we don’t have a housing problem, we have a priorities problem,” declared Maggie Spallina, a member of Rochester Red & Black, through the amplified blare of the megaphone.

The effect of benefit sanctions

Submitted by Steven. on Oct 22 2012 09:41

An examination of the new benefit sanctions which came into force in the UK yesterday, 21 October, and the effect they will have on the most vulnerable in society.

From yesterday new sanctions on benefits are being rolled out by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), whereby people who don’t comply with the terms of their receipt of benefits can have their benefits docked for up to three years.

An anti-anarchist witch-hunt

Submitted by Juan Conatz on Oct 20 2012 14:59

An article detailing the case of three anarchists in the Pacific Northwest who are in jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury.

"I do not look forward to what inevitably awaits me today, but I accept it...My convictions are unwavering and will not be shaken by their harassment. Today is October 10, 2012, and I'm ready to go to prison."

Revolt of the iSlaves - More labour unrest at China's Foxconn factories

Submitted by labournet.tv on Oct 17 2012 23:26

Two incidents of mass unrest at Foxconn factories made worldwide headlines in late September and early October 2012. The leading customer Apple had just released a new version of his main product, the iPhone 5, so work pressure in the factories was high – and so was worldwide attention.

In the evening of September 23, a riot broke out in Foxconn's factory complex in Taiyuan, Shanxi. 2.000 Foxconn workers took part in the riot, many thousands looked on, and 40 people got injured. The rioters smashed shop-windows, set fires on the street, over-turned police cars and demolished company fences.

More leaks expose depth of attack on civil service terms and conditions

Submitted by civilsavant on Oct 16 2012 07:29
Civil servants on strike, 2007

On September 28, the Cabinet Office wrote to all HR directors across the Civil Service, instructing them to review terms and conditions with a clear view to rolling them back. The letter was this month leaked to the Guardian, who exposed plans to extend working hours, cut annual leave and attack other benefits like flexi time. The detailed policy document that accompanied this letter has now also been leaked.

The Guardian's leak has already provoked widespread anger amongst civil servants. Whilst the response of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has been muted, condemning the report but promising nothing more radical than lobbying MPs and incorporating the issue into their existing national campaign, workers themselves have indicated they are up for a fight.

Far right washouts!

Submitted by 'malatesta' on Oct 15 2012 11:57

Crivvens! Jings! And Help Ma Boab! The various far right grupuscules were all a wee bit busy this weekend. It’s a pity they all can’t agree with each other cos if they all joined together there would be almost 350 of them and they could take over!

The EDL demo in Rotherham got very little media coverage as it was so routine, i.e., turn up pissed, shout about ‘pedos,’ get kettled and moved out again. The EDL plotted up in the County pub, were surrounded by 800 plod, marched up the road 200 yards for a shout and then taken back to the train station.