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Lecturers and support staff rebel as union pushes poor pension offer

Submitted by Ed on Mar 13 2018 00:41

University lecturers and support staff are rebelling against their union leadership after conciliation talks between the University and Colleges Union (UCU) and Universities UK (UUK) ended with a derisory potential deal.

South Africa: Land Expropriation from Below Faces Brutal Repression

Submitted by red jack on Mar 12 2018 16:42
The Women's Riot in Cato Manor, Durban, 1959

As the ruling African National Congress promises, with an eye on a coming election and the collapse in its popular support under Jacob Zuma, to expropriate land without compensation urban land occupations continue, and continue to face serious repression from the ruling party and the state.

Anti-fascists to oppose European far-right hate preacher in London

Submitted by Anonymous on Mar 9 2018 14:45
Martin Sellner from Generation Identity in a Defend Europe t-shirt

This Sunday a top European far-right activist is hoping to give a speech from noon at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London.

Gig economy strike and the Bologna Riders Union

Submitted by Cipo Fraioli on Mar 5 2018 21:55

Riders for a range of food delivery apps in Bologna have taken strike action over poor wages and working conditions, setting up the Bologna Riders' Union.

2 Strikes, 1 Struggle: The Significance of the Communications Workers Strike in West Virginia

Submitted by Mike Harman on Mar 5 2018 11:53

At 12:01am today, Sunday March 4, 1400 workers across the state of West Virginia and in Ashburn, Virginia have struck Frontier Communications, the regional phone and internet company.

The real land expropriation movement in South Africa

Submitted by Mike Harman on Mar 3 2018 22:54
Garniston

There has been a massive international reaction to the vote in South Africa to begin the process of land reform, but the ANC is not interested in real land redistribution and persecutes the shack dwellers who are carrying it out.

“The main thing at that moment, in that situation, was to come out alive”

Submitted by S2W on Mar 3 2018 10:11

A recent public action in support of tortured anarchists in the city of Chelyabinsk has led to a backlash. Here, two people reveal how they were tortured by the FSB.

Iron Bars on the House of Labour

Submitted by O Berkman on Mar 2 2018 23:26
An overlay of two images. The CUPE Ontario Flag with a grouping of cops marching

How accepting surveillance officers and other parts of the repressive state into trade unions is a threat to organizers across so-called Canada...

Migrant cleaners at the Daily Mail to strike against poverty wages

Submitted by Cipo Fraioli on Mar 2 2018 21:52

Outsourced cleaners at the Daily Mail, predominantly from Latin America and Africa, have demanded to be paid the current London living wage of £10.20 p/h and threatened strike action, if their demands are not met.

Wildcat Roars in West Virginia: Teachers to Stay Out on Strike

Submitted by R Totale on Mar 1 2018 19:32

Thousands of teachers, bus drivers, and other school employees across West Virginia defied union and government orders for a “cooling off” period and returned to the state capitol on Wednesday 28th Feb as strikes and protests continued. Moreover, it appears that many school sites will remain on strike on Thursday 1st March, as the strike grows more and more into the hands of the workers themselves. This post first appeared on It's Going Down.