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“le peuple veut faire tomber le régime”
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http://www.occupiedlondon.org/cairo/

Les habitants de la lune N°5

Un premier bilan des camarades de TPTG (english text below)
Rapport de TPTG sur les récentes manifestations à Athènes contre le plan d’austérité, y compris les événements qui ont conduit à la mort tragique de trois employés de la Marfin Bank et leurs conséquences pour le mouvement d’opposition à ces mesures.

Ce qui suit est un compte-rendu de la manifestation du 5 mai et du lendemain, ainsi que quelques réflexions générales sur la situation critique du mouvement en Grèce à l’heure actuelle En dépit d’avoir été placé dans une période de terrorisme financier aigu et prenant de l’ampleur jour après jours, avec les menaces constantes de la faillite de l’État et les appels à “faire des sacrifices”, la réponse du prolétariat à la veille du vote des nouvelles mesures d’austérité au Parlement grec a été impressionnante. Cela a probablement été la plus grande manifestation de travailleurs depuis la chute de la dictature, y compris celle de 2001 qui a conduit au retrait du projet de réforme des retraites. Nous estimons qu’il y avait plus de 200.000 manifestants dans le centre d’Athènes et environ 50.000 de plus dans le reste du pays. Lire la suite…

Image: After the Fall: Communiqués from Occupied California’s Map of California, fall 2009

Faced with outrageous tuition-fee hikes resulting from the financialisation of universities, California’s students are agitating for the first time in years. But is there more to these mobilisations than the limited fight for a decent and ‘affordable’ education? asks Evan Calder Williams

“Everything I wish to own becomes opaque to me.”  André Gide Lire la suite…

Envoyé par un camarade grec (English text below)

Après l’annonce des nouvelles mesures d’austérité le mercredi 3 mars (baisse du revenu total des travailleurs du secteur public entre 15 et 30 % et entre 5 et 10 % pour ceux du secteur privé, si on additionne les effets de toutes les mesures prises bout à bout), le principal syndicat du secteur public (ADEDY) a appelé à la grève pour le 5 mars (débrayage partiel) et pour le 16 (pour la journée). Le PAME, syndicat qui représente principalement les travailleurs du secteur privé, contrôle par le KKE (parti communiste de Grèce), a aussi appelé à une grève de 24 heures le 5 mars. Dans la nuit du 3 au 4 mars, les travailleurs licenciés de la compagnie aérienne Olympic Airways, jusqu’à récemment détenue par l’État, ont occupé le bâtiment central du Trésor. Lire la suite…

Today in Suzhou, workers at the Taiwan-owned United Win (China) Technology Ltd. Co. (????) held a strike, which later turned into a riot, according to reports circulating online. Posts and photos on the topic are being deleted so few details are known or confirmed, but various reports claim workers were protesting poor working and health conditions due to chemical pollution. Local officials have said the protests were over unpaid wages and quickly put out a press release saying 2,000 workers participated Lire la suite…

Cette vidéo nous est signalée par des camarades iraniens.
Elle leur semble donner une image assez fidèle de ce qui se passe en Iran.
Malheureusement, elle n’est qu’en anglais

Strikes, marches, blockades, occupations and nights of fire are setting the climate before the critical weekend of the first anniversary of Alexandros Grigoropoulos murder. Lire la suite…

Shipyard workers clashed with police forces in Athens after the workers blocked the exit of the minister of Labour from his ministry following inconclusive negotiations.

Serious clashes broke out on Thursday 15/10 morning between shipyard workers and riot police forces outside the Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity, blocking the main road from Athens to Peiraeus. Lire la suite…

In South Africa the state is being confronted by an eruption of self organised popular protest on a scale not seen since the 1980s. This article, from the mainstream press there, gives a much better overview than the articles in the British press that miss the politics of the rebellion.

DU NOON, Diepsloot, Dinokana, Khayelitsha, KwaZakhele, Masiphumelele, Lindelani, Piet Retief and Samora Machel. We are back, after a brief lull during the election, to road blockades, burnt-out police cars and the whole sorry mess of tear gas, stun grenades and mass arrests. Already this month, a girl has been shot in the head in KwaZakhele, three men have been shot dead in Piet Retief, and a man from Khayelitsha is in a critical condition. Lire la suite…

Yesterday (Thursday, July 16) about 4,000 unionists from the Korean Metal Workers Union rallied at Pyeongtaek city hall and then attempted to bring food, medicine and other supplies to the occupiers of the factory. Approximately 4,000 cops blocked the main highway and all smaller roads to the factory and prevented demonstrators from getting there, with much street fighting. There were mass arrests; the official number is 82. Many were injured. Lire la suite…

Figures recently released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) reveal that in the first quarter of 2009, as Turkey was being hit hard by the global financial crisis, not only real wages but also nominal wages in industry decreased substantially.

According to a June 19 TUIK press release, the quarterly issued “Industrial Labour Input Indicators” show that “the gross wages-salaries index [in other words, nominal wages] in industry decreased by 4 percent over the same quarter of the previous year.” Lire la suite…

As neo-liberal education reforms are planned across Europe, students in the continent have been taking to the streets leading to battles with riot police in several cities.

On Wednesday morning, the day before the general strike over one million workers, students clashed with riot police in Paris after a demonstration over the university reforms. Universities across France have been barricaded and picketed for almost two months in a standoff over these higher education reforms. The satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné yesterday reported that Sarkozy wanted student protests calmed by May, fearing echoes of the student-led protests of May 1968. Lire la suite…

A protester threatens a riot policeman with a water pistol during a demonstration in front of the police headquarters of Athens, December 15th 2008. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP
When a 15-year-old schoolboy was shot in Athens in December, it triggered the worst civil unrest in Europe since 1968. Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith join the frontline activists to talk anarchic protest, political upheaval and police brutality Lire la suite…

Article from Monthly Review on the effects of China’s economic transformation on the working class since Mao’s death. Lire la suite…

Anti-government protesters at a rally in the Bulgarian capital Sofia have clashed with police outside the parliament building. Lire la suite…

Thursday, January 8, 2009
A protest over the fatal shooting by a BART police officer of an unarmed black man mushroomed into several hours of violence Wednesday night as demonstrators smashed storefronts and cars, set several cars ablaze and blocked streets in downtown Oakland. Lire la suite…

Fri, 2 Jan 2009.
Massive police presence used to break-up peaceful residents’ protests (photos)
chinaworker.info Lire la suite…

Images et vidéos ici: http://www.tlaxcala.es/detail_artistes.asp?reference=256
Des centaines de manifestants ont pris d’assaut mercredi un hôtel de Reykjavik, où ils ont interrompu la diffusion en direct d’une émission politique consacrée à l’année écoulée. Lire la suite…

…through the eyes of some proletarian participants
This is a  text about the recent events in Greece. It’s an update of this one

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http://www.awalls.org/

Reportage vidéo en anglais

“Vision géographique”

NYC solidarity with greek revolt and student uprising!
http://amoryresistencia.blogspot.com/2008/12/nyc-solidarity-with-greek-revolt-and.html

Informations blog (english)

De New York :
Nous libérerons cet espace pour nous, et pour tous ceux qu’y veulent nous rejoindre, pour notre utilisation autonome en général. Nous nous emparons de l’université par solidarité explicite avec ceux qui occupent les universités et les rues en Grèce, Italie, France et Espagne. Lire la suite…

In these days of rage, spectacle as a power-relation, as a relation that imprints memory onto objects and bodies, is faced with a diffuse counter-power which deterritorialises impressions allowing them to wonder away from the tyranny of the image and into the field of the senses. Senses are always felt antagonistically (they are always acted against something) – but under the current conditions they are driven towards an increasingly acute and radical polarisation.
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An Egyptian state security court sentenced 22 people to between three and five years in jail on Monday for their part in riots which shook the Nile Delta in April. Lire la suite…

From our comrads in Greece….

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et aussi ici :
http://berthoalain.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/emeutes-en-grece-videos-decembre-2008/