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Texas school students walk out over teacher racism

Submitted by Ed on Nov 16 2017 10:17

Students held a walk out at a Middle School in Texas, yesterday.

Brighton Solidarity Federation opens dispute with G4Lets

Submitted by Ed on Nov 14 2017 15:55

Brighton Solidarity Federation has started a dispute with the lettings agency G4Lets on Hythe Road in Fiveways. Two sets of tenants have been organising with SolFed regarding a number of issues with their tenancies. The first group of tenants had to live in mice-infested, unsafe accommodation for a year, and then had £2000 illegitimately deducted from their deposit. The second group of tenants have had £1080 deducted from their deposit for similarly dubious reasons.

Support Clydeside IWW member in court for Glasgow Pride protest!

Submitted by AlfaGamma on Nov 14 2017 11:55

Following the arrests of five protesters at this year's Glasgow Pride, one of the arrested, a member of the Clydeside IWW branch, is facing trial on the 7th of December. Clydeside IWW have organised a solidarity protest and published a call for solidarity, reproduced here.

The Political Nature of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Submitted by Malatesta Black on Nov 13 2017 16:20

Mechanisation and automation have been called the Fourth Industrial Revolution. But these are not inevitable or neutral economic realities. They are political weapons of oppression under capitalism. It is a war against the working classes to increase profits. It is no an accident that bosses choose to mechanise and automate in the context of the massive crisis of capitalism.

Brighton SolFed Housing Union round-up: three months, three victories

Submitted by Ed on Nov 10 2017 18:57

Three groups of tenants organising with Brighton Solidarity Federation Housing Union over the past three months have each secured victories in their disputes. Working with our Housing Union, these tenants used the everyday tactics of solidarity and mutual support to take direct action – to win back stolen cash and to improve their conditions.

Student strikes at major universities in Pakistan meet state repression

Submitted by umarbajwa on Nov 9 2017 14:34
Baloch students at QUA

The brutal and harsh measures against protesting students at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad have again unleashed the true nature of the fragile Pakistani State.

Rail workers are striking for passenger rights but no-one’s talking about that

Submitted by QQ on Nov 9 2017 11:19
RMT picket line

Train conductors, represented by the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), are on their second day of coordinated strikes on multiple services.

Battle for the Soul of Pride

Submitted by dark_ether on Oct 17 2017 18:38
Anarchist Stickerism

In the decades since the first pride marches took place in 1970 there have undoubtedly been massive gains made in the fight against persecution. Pride is, and should always be a celebration. A celebration of diversity, of power and of the gains we have made. It seems however that many of those in positions of power would rather we forgot HOW we’ve made it this far – and how far we have left to go.

Pyotr Ryabov, anarchist philosopher imprisoned for 6 days in Belarus, declared a hungerstrike

Submitted by S2W on Oct 14 2017 22:49

11th of October city court of Baranovichi, Belarus sentenced Russian anarchist Pyotr Ryabov. Anarchist philosopher, lecturer of department of Philosophy in Moscow State Pedagogical University was sentenced to 6 days of prison for "small hooliganism" and "distribution of extremist materials (statute 17.1 and 17.11 of codex of misdemeanors of Belarus).

Picket at the Belarusian Embassy in Moscow

Submitted by Karetelnik on Oct 13 2017 15:57
A lecture on history is not a crime. Free Pyotr Ryabov.

On October 13 2017 individual picketing took place in front of the embassy of Belarus in Moscow, demanding the immediately release of Moscow libertarian philosopher Pyotr Ryabov, arrested in Belarus. A professor of philosophy at the Moscow Pedagogical University, Pyabov was arrested in Baranavichy, charged with "petty hooliganism," and sentenced on October 11 to six days of imprisonment, after which he went on a hunger strike.