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Polling day quagmire

Posted on August 28th 2009 | No comments
Hamid Karzai

James Turley calls for troops out of Afghanistan now
Hamid Karzai
On August 20, the population of Afghanistan (or some of it, at any rate) went to the polls to elect their president. Hamid Karzai, the incumbent, remains the favourite, as the votes are counted.
The mood in much of the western media, at the outset, was cautiously [...]

Eviction notice on Lewisham Bridge occupation Weds 10.30am

Posted on June 22nd 2009 | No comments

Bailiffs are arriving at 10.30 on Wednesday morning.
Hands Off Lewisham Bridge are asking for your support in resisting the eviction. We need as many people as possible to stay overnight on Tuesday. If you can’t stay overnight then please come down as early as possible on Wednesday morning to support the occupation.
We want to let [...]

London Metropolitan University occupation report

Posted on May 15th 2009 | No comments
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Around 4pm on Tuesday afternoon around 30 students from London Metropolitan University (LMU) staged occupied the fifth floor of a University building on Commercial Road. The occupation took place in the context of threats to axe over 550 jobs at the institution. The university is greeted with massive bills from the Higher Education Funding Council [...]

Students and Staff: Shoulder to Shoulder!

Posted on May 11th 2009 | 3 comments
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On Thursday May 7 Communist Students were up at the crack of dawn to attend the picket lines at London Metropolitan University, showing our support for the strike action against outrageous cuts proposals following severe mismanagement and bureaucracy. The pickets were quite well attended and there was  a positive mood amongst the strikers. Students largely [...]

Charlotte Turner Primary School Occupied

Posted on May 8th 2009 | 1 comment

The occupation tactic is spreading, students, workers and parents their all at it. Parents in Greenwich have taken to occupying the school to stop it being closed in September by the Council. They have released the below statement:
“Following a false consultation parents at Charlotte Turner have occupied their school. We have protested outside the town [...]

Lewisham Bridge Primary School Occupied

Posted on April 23rd 2009 | 5 comments
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Angry parents from Lewisham are occupying the school in protest at Lewisham Council’s decision to move pupils and teachers three miles away to another site. The school is a grade 2 listed building that is recognised of national importance. The school has been at the heart of community life for many years.
Communist Students fully support [...]

LSE occupy too!

Posted on January 16th 2009 | No comments
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Press release
LSE STUDENTS SECOND UNIVERSITY TO HOLD OCCUPATION WITH MORE UNIVERSITIES ABOUT TO JOIN
Over forty pro Palestine students have occupied a lecture theatre at the London School of Economics to demand that the university releases a statement condemning the attack on Gaza and divests from arms companies that supply the Israeli military.
Students entered the Old [...]

Free the Shministim – Israel’s young conscientious objectors

Posted on January 4th 2009 | No comments

The Shministim are Israeli high school students who have been imprisoned for refusing to serve in an army that occupies the Palestinian Territories.

http://december18th.org/
Who are the Shministim?
Shministim means “twelfth-graders” in Hebrew. Military service is mandatory after high school for young Jewish Israelis. The Shministim are Israeli youth who refuse to serve in the army [...]

Another (longer) video of the fantastic ILWU strike on May Day

Posted on May 17th 2008 | No comments

Produced by Labor Video [...]

Manchester students keep up the fight

Posted on May 13th 2008 | No comments

Following on from the occupation of the Arthur Lewis building on April 22 Manchester students have staged a number of other actions. Here is a short report of activities from the Reclaim the Uni facebook group:
Friday 9th May
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Around 100 people gathered for a follow up demo to the April 22nd. The point was to show [...]

 
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