[Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - Western Europe

Mon Nov 21 21:19:03 PST 2005

CYPRUS:  Air strike hits services

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/07/08/afx2130074.html

Truckers clash with scabs during strike, and police attack pickets

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=20954&cat_id=1

GREECE:  Public sector workers hold 24-hour strike for contracts

http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=527813

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j01.shtml

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/euro-j29.shtml

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/lab-j17.shtml

http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/28greece.html

http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/06/23/3828012

http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/404/index.html?id=pp6.htm

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6757

Civil servants strike against government policies

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/lab-m20.shtml

Air traffic controllers hold four-hour strike

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/05/18/afx2037118.html

Air strike over privatisation plans
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/18/news/travel19.html

Flight attendants strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/euro-a22.shtml

Police attack bank workers' protest

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a19.shtml

Anarchists occupy Cervantes Institute and march on embassy in protest against attacks in Italy and Greece

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1869

http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/99

http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/124

Pictures

http://athens.indymedia.org/display.php?articleId=2476

http://athens.indymedia.org/display.php?articleId=2448

Mass ecological march targets genetic modification

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1867

Shop owners and workers stage blockades over opening hours bill

http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=3160375&maindocimg=3158772&service=100

Union calls strike against labour "reforms"

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100006_20/07/2005_58822

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/26/news/greece.php

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=46000&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21

Striking bank workers resist as police attack picket lines

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100012_17/08/2005_59700

Strike on Olympic Air grounds flights

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/07/26/olympic.strike.reut/

Mayday protests occur - later than usual

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00138.html

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00181.html

http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/10/6775943

Hunger strike by Turkish anarchist refugee

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00467.html

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00283.html

http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/64

CCTVs sabotaged in wave of action

http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/142

http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/76

http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/113

Anarchists torch cars in Athens

http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/29

Banks targeted by anarchists

http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/99

Benetton torched

http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/104

Police start scuffles by attacking picket line during bank strike

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050817120423653

Public sector strike - especially strong among dockers

http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/06/29/0347792

Bank workers strike over pension cuts

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6928/692854.html

A group of about 20 youths threw more than 10 firebombs at riot police in Kaningos Square, in central Athens, during the early hours of yesterday morning. Nobody was injured in the attack and there was no damage caused. The youths made off into surrounding streets before police could make any arrests.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_25/06/2005_57874

PORTUGAL

National workers' strike against neoliberal budget

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4685459.stm

Anarchists join mass socialist Mayday event

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00036.html

Teachers' strike

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00405.html

Public workers strike to oppose spending cuts

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wrks-j22.shtml

Farmers protest for drought relief

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4290670.stm

Arraial invades the streets of Lisbon In quarrel - 27-04-2005 to the 01:43:49 In the Sunday, 24 of April, the streets of Lisbon had been day surprised by alegóricos cars, high music and glad people, rare things nowadays.  The objective one was simple:  to invert the orders of the game, at least for one day, and to demonstrate that the streets belong to those who use them.  The party, without any legal authorization, was since its beginning followed for agents of the PSP that, however, had been incapable of impeding it.  According to stories of some of the participants, one of the policies will have relieved that they existed in that zone exaggerated cameras that could film an eventual load police... and thus the witchcraft turned over against the wizard.  Although some unexpected stoppings, the passage occurred in party, without any bigger vicissitudes.  For the way, some banking institutions and store of telecommunication had been citizens to a symbolic redecoration, that joining ink to the words, made poetry on montras.  After about three hours of stroll, the arraial was desmobilizou espontaneamente in the Martim Moniz.  This initiative constitutes the alive test of that the authorities, although more powerful, they are not invincible:  a policy does not leave of being a simple person who, such as any another one, feels fear and impotence before what it exceeds its capacity of control.  In the deep one, everything will be able to be ours, if to want.

BASQUE COUNTRY:  Protesters defy ban to stage protest against repressive laws

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/bata-a25.shtml

SPAIN

Protests before and during bull run in Pamplona

http://www.canada.com/travel/story.html?id=10ebfdc2-5ba6-4b15-b20c-7bf7a64356ad

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=745212005

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1120575421509B215&set_id=

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0706-08.htm

Strike by anarchist union at AUSSA breakdown van service in Seville

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00063.html

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00115.html

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00462.html

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005081903075625

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050709090302172

Solidarity demo:  Photos

http://www.cnt.es/sevilla/fotos/thumbnails.php?album=30&page=1

Videos

http://www.nodo50.org/cnt/sevilla/ait/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=23

Barcelona solidarity with Italian anarchist prisoners

http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/103

35,000 mink liberated

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050817191801635

Hundreds protest deportation of Africans into the Moroccan desert

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B2CF69F40-972C-4A52-AE7A-CE8F56A62612%7D)&language=EN

Once again, the civil inspectors entered the NATO base of Bétera (Spain)
14 de mayo de 2005

Civil inspectors entered the base near Valencia but inmediately were
expelled by the police

Similarly to what happened the last two years, a group of inspectors
crossed the wire fences of the future headquarter of the NATO Response
Force in order to claim for its closure and return to the population,
inspite of a strong deployment of police forces.

More than one hundred civil inspectors left on saturday morning the
village of Bétera to undertake the walk to the headquarter of the NATOs
Rapid Reaction Force, which lies at a distance of 4 km. The participants
were equipped with white coats, signs (showing slogans as "CLOSE DOWN THE
BASE", "RETURN THE BASE", "NATO OUT"), prismatics, cameras, questionnaires
and, as a special feature this year, with magnifying glasses in order to
carry out their investigation. During the march of about one hour the
group has been accompanied by a strong deployment of the Guardia Civil
(military security forces), that consisted in a large number of police
vehicles, motorbikes, dozens of officers and dogs. Not to forget a
helicopter that several times passed closely to the ground and even landed
on a roundabout near the headquarter, only some meters away from the
march. Some officers intended to impede the advance of the group on the
road leading to the base, arguing that they were "waiting for
instructions", but the inspectores passed them quite easily.

About 12'30 a.m. the march, that at this time had a lenght of about 100m,
crossed the road and started walking directly beside the headquarter's
fence. Some minutes later they reached the place where the entrance was to
happen, near to the fences of the main installations of the base. Inspite
of the presence of the riot police inside and outside the base and of the
helicopter just a few meters above the inspectors' heads, the fourteen
inspectors in charge of carrying out the inspection of the interior of the
base, managed to cross the wire fences and entered the military site.
During these moments it could be seen that the officers were acting with
more brutality that in former editions of this action, threatening the
participants with their truncheons, pushing them violently and even
grabbing their necks. The persons that had entered the base did not manage
to advance in direction of the main installations on accounts of the
expeditiuos conduct of the riot police, that after surrounding and
concentrating the group on a small spot forced them to sit down using in
several cases painful immovilizing techniques. The officers that were
present in the interior of the military site refused to answer any of the
questions of the questionnaires that the inspectors carried with them and
that treated topics such as the presence of weapons of mass destruction,
uranium ammunition and cluster bombs at the NATO base. In a few minutes,
and even without sufficient time to take their arab tea, the fourteen
inspectors were identified and expelled, carrying them one by one over a
hole in the fence to the outside. None of them was arrested.

In the exterior, the other inspectors sang and threw flowers in honor of
the potential victims of this offensive military installation.

As we were told by the inspectors team, "once again the secretism and the
opacity of the military affairs has been visible: As we could not carry
out the intended mission of observation we will return next year.
Nevertheless we were able to confirm that it is an installation that
produces and stores violence, insecurity and fear, and that has the
capacity to project them to any place in the world. As we don't want to be
part of a global war in that everyone of us is a potential victim, we
reclaim the dismantling of these and the other military installations. In
the meanwhile we will do everything possible to obstruct and impede their
functioning by means of disobedience and nonviolent action. For now we
leave quite pleased, because our action supposed a hindrance to the normal
functioning of this war installation for quite a while".

The proposal that they make with their action is obvious: "immediate
closure of the installation, return of 100% of the land to the village of
Bétera for social and ecologic use, as an extension of the Natural Parc
"La Sierra Calderona" and as a center of environmental observation and
protection (using of the buildings and the military helicopters)".

Photos:
http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/178841/index.php

Press (spanish):
http://www.nodo50.org/tortuga/article.php3?id_article=1860

Palestinians deported after Nativity siege persecuted - relatives protest

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/04/content_2785738.htm

MALTA: Greenpeace protest causes stir over environmental aspects of shipping

http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=179777

VATICAN: Sexual abuse victims protest at Vatican mass

http://www.freep.com/news/religion/pope12e_20050412.htm

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/11/world/main687210.shtml

ITALY: METALWORKERS: TRADE UNIONS CALL 10 HOURS OF STRIKE

(AGI) - Rome, Italy, May 12 - Fiom-Fim and Uilm trade unions called 10 hours of strike. Uil secretary general , Antonino Regazzi, after today's meeting said that the strike was an attempt to unfreeze the negotiation for the contract. Workers will stop working for two hours for an assembly on the contract then they will strike for 4 hours region by region and for other 4 hours locally. The strike proposal will be presented on next May 17 at the next assembly of trade union delegates that will meet after the meeting, scheduled the day before, with Federmeccanica (employers' association).(AGI) - 

121923 MAG 05

http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200505121923-1219-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia

Transport strike in Italy - air traffic controllers and train drivers strike

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-05-13-italy-strike_x.htm?csp=34

Protest over evictions of elderly and vulnerable people

http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200505131815-1197-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia

Strike hits transport sector

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1121421961298B234&set_id=3

Cabin staff strike on Alitalia airline

http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200507181142-1045-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia

Magistrates on strike

http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200507141223-1058-RT1-CRO-0-NF82&page=0&id=agionline-eng.italyonline

Strike at national statistics bureau over contract stability delays release of data

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=AP&Date=20050713&ID=4959441

A small victory over the Nazis

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/apr/ainfos00424.html

Political prisoner goes on hunger strike

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8469

Another political prisoner ends hunger strike due to health problems

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5915

Airline strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/euro-j29.shtml

Nationwide transport strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wrks-j22.shtml

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j03.shtml

Education staff protest

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m13.shtml

Actors protest over funding cuts

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3076

Messina fans blockade port over expulsion from Serie A

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aGCbBS.eNKtc&refer=europe

Mass unrest in Genoa after punishment of local football club

http://www.cbc.ca/story/sports/national/2005/08/09/Sports/genoa050809.html

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/cgi-bin/news/newsbrief.plx?id=2247231070&fa=1

Farmers blockade roads, railways in protest over corruption

http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200508291204-1041-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia

http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200508271250-1042-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia

Mayday marches in many cities

Milan Mayday prompts criticism

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Photos

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Mayday Abruzzi

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Mayday Naples

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Mayday in the South of Italy

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Mayday Milan

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Immigrant political prisoners go on hunger strike

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HOLLAND:  Doctors strike against health "reforms"
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=19315&name=Doctors+strike+in+dispute+over+reforms

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=20228&name=Doctors+on+three%2Dday+strikeagainst+healthcare+reforms

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/wkrs-a29.shtml

Residents warn of uprising over cannabis cultivation evictions

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=19&story_id=18871&name=Riot+erupts+as+man+admitssexual+abuse+in+TV+show

Protests against Bush's visit

http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=10807&fcategory_desc=Bush%20Administration%20Lies%20and%20Deceit

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11146

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/08/content_2927548.htm

Bush visit protest pics

http://indymedia.nl/nl/2005/05/27408.shtml

Student protests force backtrack by Dutch government; protesters storm parliament

http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/04/30netherlands.html

Local government workers strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j01.shtml

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/lab-j17.shtml

Rubbish collectors and road sweepers strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a19.shtml

Bus strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j03.shtml

Doctors strike to oppose government health plans

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m27.shtml

HOLLAND:  Police nab activists seeking Bush's nuke suitcase --Dutch police arrested six activists on Sunday who said they wanted to enter Dictator Bush's Netherlands hotel and look for the suitcase which allows him to activate nuclear weapons. The activists, carrying binoculars and wearing signs that identified them as "citizen's inspectors," mimicking the International Atomic Energy Agency's weapons inspectors, were caught by Dutch soldiers as they approached Bush's hotel. (CLG, originally Yahoo News)

BELGIUM

Tens of thousands protest against neoliberal pension "reforms"

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051028-105621-5747r

Transport strike over feared staff cuts

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=24&story_id=20068&name=Trains+and+buses+come+to+a+standstill

Public sector workers march for higher pay

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=24&story_id=20682&name=2%2C000+public+workers+march+on+Brussels

Signal tower staff strike over rosters

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/euro-a26.shtml

Public sector workers march for pay rises

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/euro-j10.shtml

Protest at international Iraq conference

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0506190323124202.htm

Transport strikes

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/lab-m20.shtml

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m13.shtml

Caterpillar workers strike and protest, while steelworkers blockade motorway

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=48&story_id=23509&name=Wallonian+workers+strikein+protest+over+fuel+costs

Baggage handlers, textile workers strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/euro-m06.shtml

Solidarity protest to support animal liberation prisoners - police attack protest

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050712021323627

Many flights delayed at Brussels due to trade union action

Posted on Friday, July 15, 2005 @ 10:29 AM CEST by sn26567        

A union representative of Brussels Airport handling company Flight Care has been fired two days ago. The unions called the dismissal illegal and started a strike this morning. Many flights handled by Flight Care are delayed by 30 to 45 minutes.

http://www.luchtzak.be/article9342.html

Baggage handlers blockade luggage conveyors
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=24&story_id=19643&name=Angry+baggage+handlers+spark+airport+chaos
Bus strike as pay offer rejected
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=24&story_id=19496&name=Bus+strike+in+Wallonia+as+12+cent+rise+rejected
Civil servants strike against austerity plans
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=24&story_id=18449&name=30%2C000+Flemish+civil+servants+on+strike

Bombspotters

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0418-01.htm

500 Bombspotters arrested during massive citizens inspection of NATO 
nuclear weapons

Brussels, 16th April 2005: 500 bomspotters were arrested by police 
today after a thousand gathered in Belgium to carry out a citizens 
nuclear weapons inspection. 

A massive police presence greeted inspectors from Greenpeace and 
Bombspotting at NATO- HQ: SHAPE and Kleine Brogel airbase. Greenpeace 
activists from the six NATO countries currently hosting the 480 
nuclear weapons based in Europe: Italy, Germany, Belgium, UK, Turkey 
and the Netherlands. 

Greenpeace and Bombspotting are demanding that NATO become a nuclear 
free alliance. In two weeks the 184 member countries of the nuclear 
Non-Proliferation Treaty will meet. "They have a clear choice. Either 
disarmament or a new arms race", said Hans Lammerant, from 
Bombspotting.

"We choose nuclear disarmament! And a necessary step towards nuclear 
disarmament is the withdrawal of US nuclear weapons from NATO 
countries, and an end to the role of nuclear weapons in NATO policy."

"At a time when key NATO countries are doing so much to encourage 
Iran to give up its nuclear aspirations, it would be hypocritical for 
NATO not to do the same", said Nicky Davies, Greenpeace International.

"We are part of a growing movement of people who will continue to 
conduct these inspections of nuclear sites, to bear witness and draw 
attention to these crimes until the world is free of nuclear weapons."

In the year that marks the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the 
bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, European citizens are demanding 
disarmament.

More on this anti-NATO action:

http://www.shropshirestar.com/show_article.php?aID=32104

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20050417&hn=18555

FRANCE

Workers observe holiday abolished by government

Millions strike or stay off work on the day to protest the extra day of work

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4551975.stm

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=20090&name=Cancelled+French+holiday+met+by+strikes+and+absenteeism

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4550353.stm

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aWEwt2KynJ_M&refer=europe

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=20075&name=France+braced+for+showdown+Monday+over+axed+holiday+

Rail workers strike over job losses

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/euro-j10.shtml

Train drivers strike

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=20658&name=Paris+region+worst+hit+by+national+rail+strike

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4604411.stm

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5837976&cKey=1117714831000

http://www.rmtbristolrail.org.uk/archives/00000142.shtml

Mass anti-privatisation protetss

http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/410/index.html?id=np2.htm

http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-10-04-voa46.cfm

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13446966,00.html

Striking sailors disrupt channel services
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=19097&name=Striking+French+sailors+disrupt+Channel+ferries

Protest for better housing for immigrants after Paris fire

http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0827/france.html

Strike at Hewlett Packard over job cuts

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=1132559

Total Oil refinery workers strike over cancellation of holiday

http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/afx/2005/05/19/afx2040010.html

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050520-112318-2369r.htm

National strike protests abolition of day off

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5788174&cKey=1116237022000

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/05/16/french-holiday050516.html

Protesters oppose racist immigration crackdown

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20050515T000000-0500_80503_OBS_HUNDREDS_PROTEST_FRANCE_S_CRACKDOWN_ON_ILLEGAL_IMMIGRANTS.asp

CLI Nantes occupied in precarity protest

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://nantes.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D5510&prev=/language_tools

Occupation of education ministry followed by mass arrests against school students

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://nantes.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D5612&prev=/language_tools

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://paris.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D35636&prev=/language_tools

Mobilisation to support asylum seeker family threatened with eviction

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://nantes.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D5593&prev=/language_tools

Kurdish hunger strike in Liege

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://liege.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/4072.php&prev=/language_tools

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://liege.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/4073.php&prev=/language_tools

Precarity protesters occupy stock exchange

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://paris.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D36231&prev=/language_tools

Housing office occupied to raise pressure over evictions

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://paris.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D36249&prev=/language_tools

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://paris.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D36251&prev=/language_tools

Precarity resistance

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://www.marches-contre-precarite.blogspot.com/&prev=/language_tools

Calais town hall occupied in migrant precarity protest

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1514&prev=/language_tools

Boulougne - protest against repression

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1513&prev=/language_tools

Anti-deportation protest in Grenoble

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://squat.net/fr/news/grenoble030505.html&prev=/language_tools

Strike, occupation and alternative service used to oppose post office privatisation

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://indygrr.ouvaton.org/index.php%3Fpage%3Darticle%26filtre%3D1%26droiteA%3D1%26numpageA%3D1%26id%3D718&prev=/language_tools

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://indygrr.ouvaton.org/index.php%3Fpage%3Darticle%26filtre%3D1%26numpageA%3D2%26id%3D620&prev=/language_tools

Sharon visit protested (pictures)

http://paris.indymedia.org/article_propose.php3?id_article=39219

Ferry turned back by striking workers

http://www.u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=62717&pt=n

French school students oppose governmental control

http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=794

Repression against French school student movement

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00287.html

"Pink Panthers" and other activists target Catholic fundamentalist march

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00180.html

Anti-advertising protest in Paris

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00436.html

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050528132740321

Successful women's march in Marseille

http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=841

Transport strike closes down Nantes

http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/16/3692789

Mayday anti-precarity action in France

http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4185

School student movement - vicious state repression

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/lyce-a16.shtml

Squatters resist eviction of "dangerous" squats, blockade entrance

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4208018.stm

High-school students resist; schools, official buildings occupied

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1357&prev=/language_tools

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1360&prev=/language_tools

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1340&prev=/language_tools

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1322&prev=/language_tools

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1309&prev=/language_tools

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1587&prev=/language_tools

Mass occupations across France

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1279&prev=/language_tools

"Occupied Faidherbe college

Since today Sunday, 18h, the Faidherbe college of Lille east (also) occupied."

"montebello is occupied since yesterday evening This Pasteur evening also is occupied thus if you want to spin a blow of hand, come tomorrow morning (7h) to Pasteur"

FRANCE:  Sharon visit protested

"Israel prime-minister, registered murderer Ariel Sharon is welcomed

with actions in Paris. On Sunday about 150 people started to march

from Barbés . Activists marched through a very long marching route

and when they have reached Opera their number was about 3000..

In several places on Aubervilliers street.. slogans such as

Liberté pour tous and black&red revolution, Anarchy in Here

were written . we have also added lots of A emblems on the walls."

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050713101850302

GERMANY: Mayday protests in Hamburg, Berlin

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=de%7Cen&u=http://de.indymedia.org/2005/04/111804.shtml&prev=/language_tools

Anti-fascist demo in Essen

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=de%7Cen&u=http://de.indymedia.org/2005/04/112050.shtml&prev=/language_tools

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=de%7Cen&u=http://de.indymedia.org/2005/04/112222.shtml&prev=/language_tools

Protests over military procession deemed reminiscent of Nazism

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3133

Workers protest at Deutsche Bank meeting over job cuts

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000100&sid=aU6iy7XvZYwI&refer=germany

"African village" in German zoo sparks protests

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/11

Protests against deportation of Kosovars
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1589120,00.html

Condom protests during pope's visit

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1740357,00.html

Protesters enter military base

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/638/638p14f.htm

Heartless goons demolish Checkpoint Charlie memorial

http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,2763,1522206,00.html

Protesters cut their way into military base, walk around and hang a banner before turning themselves in

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050812111940833

Protesters besiege Nazis; NPD penned in and eventually escorted away

http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/10/0534490

Doctors strike over pay and conditions

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/euro-m06.shtml

Protest against IBM job cuts

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/wkrs-a29.shtml

Doctors protest over pay

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a05.shtml

Hunger strike at immigration prison

http://www.arap.so36.net/prison/riot/riot2005.html

Steelworkers stage warning strikes
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=19246&name=West+German+steelworkers+stage+warning+strikes

Germans protest against new ruling coalition

Posted at 8:16am on 6 Nov 2005

Hundreds of Germans have joined protest marches in Berlin against the new governing coalition, which they fear will cut social welfare spending.  Blowing whistles and banging drums, the demonstrators set off from three points in the city, carrying placards urging politicians to fight unemployment and protect pensions and wages.  Germany's two main parties are still negotiating the terms for a coalition government, after neither won a clear majority in September's elections.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/bulletins/radionz/200511060816/276d03e0

AUSTRIA:  Innsbruck far-right forum disrupted by anti-fascists

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=de%7Cen&u=http://at.indymedia.org/newswire/display/53833/index.php&prev=/language_tools

Mayday protests

http://www.fifthinternational.org/index.php?id=14,77,0,0,1,0

Successful student strike for free education

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3015

Campaign to defend autonomous social centre
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2005/03/114003.shtml

SWITZERLAND:  Workers march against poverty, social welfare cuts and immigration crackdowns on Mayday

There are also some clashes as anti-Nazis target Nazi demos

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=107&sid=5740990&cKey=1114957165000

Zurich airport taxi drivers strike over pay

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=asoJBuomjiSw&refer=europe

http://www.nzz.ch/2005/07/16/eng/article5945953.html

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=111&sid=5945953&cKey=1121437801000

Greenpeace return high-tech waste to Hewlett-Packard

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0523-01.htm

Norway farmers' wives complete mammoth march to present petition to WTO

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.all4all.org%2F2005%2F07%2F2022.shtml&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

DENMARK:  Bush visit protested

http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/55856

http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/jul2005-daily/07-07-2005/world/w6.htm

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/06/content_3181232.htm

Police attack protest held to support squatted social centre

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00363.html

SWEDEN:  Overtime ban in solidarity with Finnish paper workers

http://www.paperiliitto.fi/paperiliitto/english/overtime.php

http://printweek.hbpl.co.uk/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&UID=02730e5b-d1f2-4f84-8e8f-3a22c1fae98b

http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101979526302

Feminist protesters attacked by sex club bouncers and clients

http://finance.news.com.au/story/0,10166,15220363-23109,00.html

Solidarity with Finnish paper strikers

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6923/692310.html

Building workers' union calls for boycott to put pressure on Polish firm
http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=1201&date=20050331&PHPSESSID=2a2ddc3a55cd068babea6550132644ba

FINLAND:  Strikes to close paper mills
http://www.forbes.com/technology/ebusiness/feeds/ap/2005/04/22/ap1969112.html
Transport strike at ports
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D89F2S881.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down

Paper mill workers go on strike; employers follow with lockout

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/business/11664795.htm

http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2005/05/16/ap2031473.html

http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101979514699

http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101979482549

http://www.yle.fi/news/left/id12887.html

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8AGBT080.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down

http://www.dotprint.com/dp_fullstory.asp?ArticleID=252

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050602-012544-1155r.htm

http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101979749812

http://www.paperiliitto.fi/paperiliitto/english/emcef.php

http://www.paperiliitto.fi/paperiliitto/english/overtime.php

http://www.paperiliitto.fi/paperiliitto/english/forest.php

http://www.yle.fi/news/id12685.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4596895.stm

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2005/05/18/ap2037325.html

http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/afx/2005/05/18/afx2036555.html

Border guards strike leads to open borders

http://www.yle.fi/news/id12803.html

http://www.yle.fi/news/left/id12848.html

http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/1075/news/n_15904.htm

http://www.yle.fi/news/left/id12509.html

http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101979749104

http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101979733538

http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/19finland.html

http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/23finland.html

Sweets factory workers walkout before cuts decision is reversed

http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101979778009

In Sunday 1st [May], there were some 60 people in anarchist block of red

march and later perhaps 100 people in anarchist concert in a park

Festival of Street Art responds to crackdown on graffiti

"March was little prepared, but people behaved themselves accordingly. All route got tagged with stencils and without, there were plenty of stickers around as well. Tagged buildings included ministry of environment, ministry of transport, finnish employers' association and city hall."

http://info.interactivist.net/news/05/08/26/2231214.shtml?tid=22

Dockers stage three-day strike

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6919/691912.html

Paper strike set to end

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j01.shtml

Construction workers strike in sympathy with paper workers

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/euro-j10.shtml

GM crops destroyed

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news508.htm

ICELAND:  Eco-protest against dam-building includes lock-ons, protest camp, and disruption of corporate events

http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1889

Refugees protest against mistreatment

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6928/692858.html
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