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The wildcat strike of more than 200 workers from a company in the central Quang Ngai Province escalated on Thursday.
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Relevé par un honorable correspondant…
Ces ouvriers sont principalement des latinos, aidés par des associations de soutien aux immigrants. La boite ferme parce qu’elle n’a plus de crédit de sa banque, qui vient de recevoir des milliards du gouvernement.

Workers occupying the Republic Windows & Doors factory slated for closure are vowing to remain in the Chicago plant until they win the $1.5 million in severance and vacation pay owed them by management.
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Rioters throw stones and petrol bombs at police, who respond with tear gas
Thousands of protesters have attacked banks and shops in Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki, angered by the police’s killing of a teenager.
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A detailed look at the strikes and occupations by teachers, students and parents in 2006-7 in response to neo-liberal policies being imposed on the Greek educational system.
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China ‘faces mass social unrest’
Chinese authorities have already had to deal with workers’ protests
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Jump! You, fuckers!

November 26th, 2008 by Django

More unrest in China following further layoffs in the industrial heartland.
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The ILO says 210 million people could be out of work by the end of 2009
Millions of workers face “painful” wage cuts because of the global economic crisis, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has said.
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NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union today demanded information from the government about reports that an active military unit has been deployed inside the U.S. to help with “civil unrest” and “crowd control” – matters traditionally handled by civilian authorities.
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BBC report http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7734817.stm

Some 8,000 riot police were deployed in Athens
Greek riot police have fired tear gas to disperse protesters hurling stones and firebombs outside the US embassy in the capital Athens.
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Une vidéo qui est un petit cours sur l’intérêt des subprimes… En anglais certes, mais délicieux…

High School students struck and marched across Germany yesterday in protest against classroom overcrowding, lack of teachers, and the pressure of examinations.
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[Pictures; treadmills in the 19th and 21st centuries.]
http://libcom.org/library/time-work-discipline-industrial-capitalism-e-p-thompson

A crowd has attacked police in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen following the death of a motorcyclist, the Xinhua state media said.
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More than 70 buses blocked the entrance to Chengdu’s Baihua Centre Bus Station on 1 November 2008 as drivers from the Wenjiang Guanghua Bus Co. staged a one day strike demanding wage increases, CLB has learned.
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April 28th, 2007 by Ret Marut
A guide to the language of economics and recession as it relates to workers, as opposed to abstract mystifying jargon.
A redefining of some economic terms.
A PROLE’S GUIDE TO THE RECESSION
– Economics With The Truth
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Immigrants joined by local anarchists erect barricades after riot police charges once more on the asylum-paper queue outside central immigration office in Athens
In the early morning of Saturday 8 of November 2008, riot police forces (MAT) once again attacked immigrants queuing outside the central immigration office in Athens, greece, in order to register their asylum papers. In the last attack of the kind two weeks ago one Pakistani man was killed on the spot, whereas two more succumbed to their wounds days later in the hospital.
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