Last summer there was a massive wave of layoffs at Cegielski plant in Poznan, western Poland. As the result, more than 20% of workers at this heavy industry, state owned plant loose their jobs. In response, at the beginning of October Workers Initiative (IP), radical trade union operating in Cegielski established a Strike Commitee and started formal industrial dispute with the management. Shortly after, the management retaliate, unlawfully sacking four newly appointed stewards from IP. On November 3 Marcel Szary, one of the IP leaders in Cegielski plant and elected workers’ delegate to the board of directors was sentenced for a financial penalty for organizing wildcat strikes and workers’ rallies at the plant. On October, 23, 2009 almost 4.000 workers from different trade unions (and various plants around the country) took part in a demonstration in defense of workplaces, ended up with a clashes with the police.

Polish Embassy in London: 47 Portland Place W1B 1JH

November 13, 2009

Well-known blogger, Craig Murray has been threatened with a libel action by neo-con organisation the Quilliam Foundation

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/

Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS

Central Hall Westminster, Lecture Hall
London
SW1H 9NH

"Posties and the service we provide are being sacrificed on the altar of profit. We're fighting back". Article by Sam Moss (a pseudonym), he/she works for the Royal Mail in London.

Edith Cavell Statue, between National Portrait Gallery and St. Martin's in the Fields (off Trafalgar Square)

Following the workshop on sex work organised by the London Anarchist Forum at Saturday's Bookfair, a blog has been created to publish transcripts of the presentations and continue the debate. 

Mp3 Audio (below) from a very informative talk organised by Corporate Watch. Olympics: Gentrification, Corporate Interest, Corruption and Resistance.

One of the largest audiences at the 2009 Anarchist Bookfair was for the talk Capitalism's Present Crisis: How Will It End?. From the bookfair website:

The capitalist system is facing years of crisis and social instability. This raises two questions. 1. what caused the crisis? Was it greedy bankers, the natural tendencies of the capitalist system or was it the resistance of the working class? 2. How will the crisis end? Will it end with more state regulation, more cuts in living standards or with working class revolution? The anarchist bookfair and Mute magazine have invited 3 speakers to debate these issues. Paul mason, presenter on BBC newsnight and author of Meltdown; John Holloway, author of change the world without taking power; William Dixon, Mute magazine contributor.

The talk was an interesting opportunity to talk about the economic crisis - check out the audio (below).

56a Infoshop

56 Crampton St

London

SE17 3AE

PUBLIC MEETING -sat 17 october, 6pm, Queen mary university, room 210, Laws building

Today five people picketed the Catalonian Delegation on fleet street, holding up a banner, handing out leaflets and shouting slogans demanding the release of Amadeu Casellas.

Amadeu Casellas is an anarchist prisoner who was convicted for robbing banks in the 1970s. He used the money to support workers' struggles. Despite having fully served his sentences and spending more years in prison than the maximum allowed by law, the authorities will not release him. His is now in a critical situation after 85 days on a hunger strike, and since October 4th on a drinking strike.

Royal Mail's feeble appeals to the membership have fallen flat on their face. Workers have had enough of cuts and closures, management dictat and bullying, and are getting ready to fight it out for our future....

.....Let's not fritter it away, start lobbying the PEC and passing motions demanding immediate action, we've delayed long enough. With the backlog and a big vote, we're all set up for a powerful national strike - now lets knock Royal Mail down!

Noncommercial House, 165 Commercial Street, London (discussion on the first floor)

Scalawww.scala-london.co.uk

275-277 Pentonville Rd
London, N1
020 7833 2022

Best, one stop, round-the-clock counter-information site, includes 24/7 Al Jazzera news stream which starts as soon as the pafe opens, constantly updated breaking news feeds from the world top counter-information sites, feeds at the top of the front page are always just no more than a few minutes old, plenty of video clips and just the very cutting edge items, the one which unable you to understand all the corruption, CHECK IT OUT!

With just a week to go until climate activists converge on EOn's Ratliffe on Soar coal power station, the company has announced that it is scrapping plans to build a new coal fired power station at Kingsnorth. Climate Camp promised to return to Kent to stop a new power station being built at Kingsnorth, and this summer launched 'Tipping Point' a social centre in Gillingham to bolster the local campaign. The project has been busy making connections and doing direct action training expecting a long drawn out battle, but on Wednesday 7th of October Eon announced it was dropping any immediate plans to replace the existing power station with another coal-fired power plant.

Amadeu Casellas is an anarchist prisoner who was convicted for robbing banks in the 1970s. He used the money to support workers' struggles. Despite having fully served his sentences and spending more years in prison than the maximum allowed by law, the authorities will not release him. His is now in a critical situation after 85 days on a hunger strike, and since October 4th on a drinking strike.

Protests are being organised all over Spain, and now in London:

Let us demand Amadeu's release from prison!

Monday October 12 at 12'30 pm

Delegation from Catalonian Government in the United Kingdom
17 Fleet Street
EC4 London

Amadeu Casellas is an anarchist prisoner who was convicted for robbing banks in the 1970s. He used the money to support workers' struggles. Despite having fully served his sentences and spending more years in prison than the maximum allowed by law, the authorities will not release him. This is not the first time he has to fight for his rights in prison but authorities keep breaking their promises. His situation is critiacl now after over 85 days on a hunger strike and over 8 on a drinking strike. Protests are being organised all over Spain and now in London (MONDAY OCTOBER 12TH - FLEET ST. EC4 - LONDON - 12'30 PM).

The Regent, 101 Liverpool Rd, Islington, London, N1 1LX

Contact KT Watson: 07917 385 023

Program:Proposals Accepted (Se Aceptan Proposiciones), 26 mins, Family Package (Paquete Familiar), 13 mins,"Burrito" (El Burrito) 15 mins, The Inventor (El Invento) 8 mins, The Big Sweat (Sudando la Gota Gorda) 9 mins

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Ronnie's Bar (Above Ronnie Scott's), 42 Frith Street, Soho, London, W1D 1HT

Contact KT Watson: 07917 385 023

Program:Proposals Accepted (Se Aceptan Proposiciones), 26 mins, Family Package (Paquete Familiar), 13 mins,"Burrito" (El Burrito) 15 mins, The Inventor (El Invento) 8 mins, The Big Sweat (Sudando la Gota Gorda) 9 mins

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A government agency called Creative Connexions has been set-up to subsidise out-sourcing of production to autocratic states.

The Octagon Room*, Queen's Building, Queen Mary & Westfield College, Mile End Road, London E1, Mile End Tube.

UCU and the SWP are reporting a victory in the Tower Hamlets College strike.
The so-called victory is that there are no compulsory redundancies. Instead the 13 at risk workers who formed the basis of the indefinite strike ballot were re-deployed or won appeals or have accepted enhanced voluntary redundancy.
There has been no agreement that there will be no further cuts or compulsory redundancies, or any other agreement honouring existing terms and conditions.

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El Comandante, 10 Annette Road, Holloway, London, N7 6ET

7pm-11pm, Thursday 8th October 2009

Contact KT Watson: 07917 385 023

Program:Proposals Accepted (Se Aceptan Proposiciones), 26 mins, Family Package (Paquete Familiar), 13 mins,"Burrito" (El Burrito) 15 mins, The Inventor (El Invento) 8 mins, The Big Sweat (Sudando la Gota Gorda) 9 mins

Stick around for some drinks at this intimtae venue and enjoy the good vibes :)

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Artillery Arms, Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8ND

The Tower Hamlets College Strike continues.

Teachers again affirmed support for continuing the indefinite strike action in a mass meeting Tuesday. About 150 people voted to stay out, with 13 abstentions and no votes against. At the meeting a number of people expressed their understandable concerns about surviving longer with no income and more people talked about how students were suffering, but many more people argued that the students know what we're doing and support us.

Bikes leave Arbour Square picket line (E1 0PT) at 10:30 to meet at the Bank of England at 11am