Occupy actions planned on May Day are tied to the generations-long movement for the eight-hour day, to immigrant workers, to police brutality and repression of the labor movement.
Ian Traynor, Helena Smith, The Guardian. February 12, 2012.
Under a sea of banners denouncing further wage, pension and job cuts, tens of thousands of protesters chanted against "the occupation" of the country by foreign lenders.
With Occupy Wall Street protesters kettled on the Brooklyn Bridge this weekend, we look at how kettling was used on protesters during the London riots earlier this year.
There's no simple explanation for the uprising in London and several other UK cities this week. But the riots mirror the state of working-class Britain.
Michael T. Klare, Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. January 23, 2011.
From now on, rising prices, powerful storms, severe droughts and floods, and other unexpected events are likely to play havoc with the fabric of global society.
Retirement age is not really the issue at all. This is about union busting and "putting people in their place." It's about in whose interests will society be run.
Workers who have contributed to France's steadily increasing wealth over decades are enraged that Sarkozy is re-neging on his campaign promise to not raise retirement age.
