repression
Articles about state or employers repression and legal, police, military or paramilitary intimidation or violence against workers or social movements.
1893: The Manchester Anarchists and the Fight for Free Speech
Police repression against British anarchism is not a new happening. In 1893 anarchists in Manchester put up a fierce fight against police attempts to silence them
“In Manchester there is a handful of persons who delight in regarding themselves as Anarchists. They are chiefly tailors, and some of them allow their hair to grow long. There is nothing they dislike more than the laws and regulations provided for the
Cleaners, laywers and doctors on the march in Greece
Cleaners march in Athens, lawyers stage demonstration against anti-anarchist legislation in Salonica, and doctors go on new round of stoppages and demos across Greece.
On Tuesday 20/5/2008 the independent union of cleaners of Attica (PEKOP), whose general secretary, K.
South Korean government arrests 450 workers as general strike seems imminent
Police apprehended more than 450 labor activists Saturday after a violent protest in Daejeon which left about 150 injured. Labour unrest is set to escalate this month as truck drivers plan to strike and a major labour umbrella group pledged to join.
Thousands of Korean Confederation of Trade Unions members rallied in the city to mark the anniversary of the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. They mourned a unionized trucker who committed suicide earlier this month in what colleagues said was a protest against the government's policies.
Crackdown in South Korea as President Lee emphasises need for "labour market flexibility"
Nineteen former workers at the Kor-Tek guitar and bass factory in Dungchon, Seoul, have been indicted on serious charges relating to the occupation of the plant late last year. The charges, alongside similar cases, have led to protests from unions which describe them as “excessive” and “preposterous”.
The original dispute at the plant related to management plans to close the factory and move production to China. Workers quickly staged a sit-in strike, but this was broken up by police after only four hours. The strikers were rounded up, and two local union leaders were given one year sentences, which were later commuted to suspended sentences.
'End crackdown on labor activists' in Vietnam, says human rights group
The Vietnamese government should immediately free activists who have been unlawfully imprisoned for peacefully campaigning for workers' rights, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
The 32-page report, "Not Yet a Workers' Paradise: Vietnam's Suppression of the Independent Workers' Movement," documents the Vietnamese government's crackdown on independent trade unions and profiles labor rights activists who have been detained, placed under house arrest, or imprisoned by the Vietnamese government in violation of international law.
Prison uprising in Chios island, Greece
Uprising erupts in Chios' prison after repeated guard brutality against inmates who claim the prison is rife with torture.
On Monday 5/5/08 night an uprising erupted in Chios island's prison after a prison guard turned his arms against the inmates. The 140 insurgent inmates occupied the entire prison establishment refusing to return to their cells and damaging surveillance infrastructure.
Two students wounded during police raid in Athens
Two students wounded during punitive pogrom by riot police on Colonels' coup anniversary.
Two students were seriously wounded on Tuesday 21/4 night and are in hospital with broken limbs after riot-police forces surrounded and invaded the liberated parking lot turned park in Exarcheia, downtown Athens, only ten meters away from Alexandros Grifgoropoulos murder site.
Nurses fired for strike in Poland
Four nurse unionists have been fired from the Barlicki Hospital in Lodz. It's director is on the team of health care managers helping the government to commercialize hospitals and increase casualization of the sector.
The Director of the Balicki Hospital in Lodz has fired four nurses and union leaders who participating in a strike last Septmber. The strike lasted 11 days. Nurses were demanding pay raises to brings their salaries up to 2000 - 3500 zloties per month (450 -800 euro) depending on position and seniority.
Violence in the name of respectability: raids on activist spaces during the G20 summit
Reflections on the police raids on Rampart Social Centre and the Convergence Space during the G20 Summit.
On the Thursday following the G20 protests, two squatted social centres in East London were raided by riot police, apparently looking for instigators of the attacks on the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Lawyers General Union against anti-anarchist legislation in Greece
The Lawyers General Union of Greece has condemned and is threatening to mobilise against the police-state measures proposed by the Ministry of Justice.
The general council of Lawyer Unions of Greece has expressed its opposition to the criminalisation of masking and hooding and the return of the fascist law regarding "insulting authorities".
