Campaign against Permatemps and Hewlett Packard
Posted on: 22nd April 2007
One of the biggest impediments to organizing is the permatemp phenomenon. In Poland, the amount of people who are forced to either set up their own company to be hired or who work through agencies or intermediary firms is extraodinarily high. Private employees feel entitled to do so because the leading pundits of economic opinion have built a consensus that the main cause of unemployment in Poland is the high cost of unemployment, meaning the cost of social benefits.
Read more...Poland: Warsaw - death of a squat
Posted on: 17th April 2007
Thursday evening activists from the Warsaw squat Elba met to discuss the news that their squat might be evicted. Yesterday, Frdiay, April 13, the found out that the concert and meeting space would be destroyed on Monday and that the living place shortly after and that they would have to move. So far there does not seem to be any talk of squat defence.
Read more...Poland: Anti-fascist action in Krakow
Posted on: 17th April 2007
On April 14, fascists from the group ONR decided to hold a march in Krakow. It was the 73rd anniversary of its founding, but also it was the time when Jewish and Israeli youth come to Krakow each year for the March of the Living, a kind of tribute to Holocaust victims. So really bad taste - and of course the march was accompanied by different antisemitic slogans, etc. etc.
Read more...Poland: Actions against the Destructions of Wetlands
Posted on: 15th February 2007
Anarchists, environmentalists, some NGOs and just plain citizens have been involved lately in stepping up the protest against the destruction of the Rospuda Valley Wetlands in Poland.
Read more...Russia: Anarchist campaign against Sochi 2014 Olympic Games candidature
Posted on: 9th February 2007
Autonomous Action and other anarchists are organizing together with Russian eco-activists against Sochi candidature for 2014 Olympic Games. Currently campaign is centered on issues of ecology and socio-economic rights of the local people, but we are also developing more fundamental critique of commercial sport. There has already been one action in Moscow - 19th of January few dozen people picketed Russian Olympic Committee, and organized a guerilla theatre, where Misha the Olympic bear devastated Sochi national park (http://avtonom.org/index.php?nid=635).
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