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[David Broder]

www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org.uk
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  1.US IMMIGRANT WORKERS FIGHT BACK
  2.IRANIAN WORKERS ORGANISE INDEPENDENT MAY DAY MARCHES
  3.WORKERS AND STUDENTS UNITE AND WIN IN THE USA
  4. ... AND IN THE UK
  5.BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT SEIZES GAS SUPPLIES FROM MULTINATIONALS
  6. MEXICAN WORKERS UNDER ATTACK
  7. NO SWEAT BLOG FROM BOLIVIA
  8. DATES
   
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  1. US IMMIGRANT WORKERS FIGHT BACK
   
  The US government has been rocked by a series of huge demonstrations and strikes involving millions of the nation's immigrant workers. They are fighting back against the planned Sensenbrenner law, which will criminalise immigrant workers, make it easier to deport them and make it harder for workers to enter the USA from Latin America.
  http://labornotes.org/archives/2006/05/articles/a.shtml
   
  2.IRANIAN WORKERS ORGANISE INDEPENDENT MAY DAY MARCHES
   
  Despite the Islamist regime's effort to use May Day as a tool to get workers behind its nuclear programme, Iranian workers carried out independent demonstrations opposing not only US aggression, but also the anti-union policies of the dictatorship. This follows a rising tide of strikes in Iran, which have been met with victimisation and imprisonment of union members.
  http://www.iranpressnews.com/english/source/012597.html
  However, the release of some activists from the militant bus workers' union was also secured this week.
  http://lnn.laborstart.org/more.php?id=722_0_1_0_M
   
  3.WORKERS AND STUDENTS UNITE AND WIN IN USA
   
  Students in the United Students Against Sweatshops network in the USA (www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org) at Universities of Miami and Buffalo have won access to union representation for their janitors after protests and hunger strikes. There has recently been a stepping-up of American students' living wage campaign
  http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=3053
   
  U.S.A.S. activists will soon be coming to the UK  to talk about their struggles - http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1522&mode=thread&order=0 or phone 07903 584278 for more details.
   
  4. .... AND IN THE UK
    Sweat-free campus campaigners at Queen Mary College in east London have won a great victory.   The college council has committed itself to making Queen Mary the first “living wage campus” in the UK. This means no one will be paid less than a living wage (currently set at £6.70 an hour), or receive fewer than 28 days’ holiday and 10 days’ sick pay.

   
  http://www.workersliberty.org/node/6134
  5.BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT SEIZES GAS SUPPLIES FROM MULTINATIONALS
   
  After 6 years of mobilisations against the private control of natural resources, the Bolivian people rejoiced on May Day when the new president Evo Morales announced the nationalisation of gas. Gas is Bolivia's main export - it is the world's 2nd biggest gas producer.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4963348.stm
  However, the deal is flawed, in that it does not actually expropriate the multinationals who themselves took control of the gas illegally. Morales has simply forced the multinationals into a weaker negotiating position for new contracts.
  http://trotskyist.blogspot.com/2006/05/nationalisation-of-gas.html
  http://www.democracyctr.org/blog/2006/05/morales-nationalizes-bolivias-gas-but_04.html
   
  6. MEXICAN WORKERS UNDER ATTACK
   
  2 steel workers were recently killed when police opened fire at strikers outside a steel mill in Mexico
  http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=89
   
  7.  NO SWEAT BLOG FROM BOLIVIA
No Sweat activist David Broder has just got back from South America. Read his 
thoughts on the Bolivia Solidarity Campaign delegation, the Morales Government and worker-controlled factories at:
http://trotskyist.blogspot.com/2006/04/hasta-luego-bolivia.html
   
  
 
  8. DATES
  * WORKERS' RIGHTS AT THE OLYMPICS
Conference - Global rights in Global companies: Going for Gold at the 
UK  Olympics. Wednesday 17 May 2006, 9am to 4.15pm at One Bird Cage Walk 
conference Centre, Westminster. Organised by The Institute of 
Employment 
* WOMEN, GAYS AND SECULARISM IN POST-WAR IRAQ
  Iraqi gay rights activist Ali Hili and Iraqi feminist activist Houzan Mahmoud will address a public meeting, co-sponsored by OutRage! and the Gay & Lesbian Humanist Association. Friday 19 May 2006, 7pm, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1. Further info: Brett Lock 0770 843 5917.
  *EDUCATION NOT FOR SALE ACTIVISTS' GATHERING
  Sessions on international solidarity, free education, fighting privatisation, environment, anti-racism and more...
  Saturday 27 May 2006, 12-6pm, Falmer House (University of Sussex) 
  *US ACTIVISTS COME TO UK
  U.S.A.S. activists will be coming to the UK between the 27th May and 2nd June  to talk about their struggles - http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1522&mode=thread&order=0 or phone 07903 584278 for more details.

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