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Migrant workers' solidarity march, Glasgow
Start: 11:00
End: 13:00

Called by : Unity

11:00 am - Assemble
George Square
Glasgow City Centre

More Info ;
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszine81/UnityDemo6May.htm
05 / 7
March for migrant workers' rights, London
Start: 11:00
End: 13:00

7TH MAY BANK HOLIDAY

ASSEMBLE 11AM OUTSIDE WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL NEAR VICTORIA STATION

Co-ordination meeting Sunday 22nd April 6pm at Transport House, 128 Theobalds Road, nr Holborn tube station in central London

On the 7th of October 2006 a coalition of migrant groups, trade unions and social justice activists marched in London demanding equal rights for all. We were joining many others across Europe and Africa in an international effort to co-ordinate struggles and put forward a collective call for the regularisation of all migrants in the EU.

Migrant workers' solidarity march, Manchester
Start: 12:00
End: 14:00

Called by : Trades Union For Refugees

12.00 noon : Assemble at All Saints Park
Oxford Road
Manchester

May Day is International Workers Day!

More info ;
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszine81/TUFR7thMayDemo.htm
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KEEP THE G8 ON THE RUN! London meeting
Start: 18:30
End: 20:30

PUBLIC MEETING
KEEP THE G8 ON THE RUN!
Launching the mobilisation and discussing the G8 and the resistance to their decisions.

Mark Thomas - Activist, Comedian and Broadcaster
Charles Abugre - Ghanaian Activist & Christian Aid
Mark Curtis - Author of Unpeople:UK's Secret Human Rights Abuses
+ Representative from German Organising Process
TUESDAY 8 MAY 6.30 - 8.30
Chadwick Lecture Theatre
University Collage London
WC1
(nearest tube Euston Square)
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Women's rights in Iraq forum, London
Start: 17:30
End: 20:00

Nadje Al-Ali anthropologist, women's rights activist and author of 'Iraqi Women'

in conversation with

Natasha Walter
Author and Columnist, The Guardian

Time/Date: 5:30-8pm, Monday 14 May 2007

Venue: SOAS, Khalili Theatre
(nearest tube Russell Square)

Introduction by Deniz Kandiyoti, SOAS
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Hands Off Iraqi Oil: Shell AGM, London
Start: 08:30
End: 12:00

Join the Hands Off Iraqi Oil Protest at Shell's Annual General Meeting

Tuesday 15 May 2007
8.30am - 12 noon
Novotel London-West Hotel and Convention Centre,
1 Shortlands, Hammersmith, London W6 8DR
(Nearest tube - Hammersmith)

Bolivian activist speaks, Bristol
Start: 19:00
End: 21:30

Juan Carlos Condori, a representative from Achacachi Bolivia will be in the UK on Monday 14th, and leaves on Thursday 17th evening. Achacachi is the capital city of the Aymara world, in Omasuyos, La Paz, Bolivia.
The legendary Q'alachaca Indigenous Headquarters is located in
Omasuyos, where the Aymara receive military training and plan their mobilizations.The Aymara method of warfare is nothing new, but has existed for millennia.
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Regularisation for all migrant workers! London meeting
Start: 11:00
End: 16:00

Saturday 19 May, 11.00 - 4.00
South Bank University
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The supermarket chains and sweatshop exploitation, London Sweat London forum
Start: 19:30
End: 21:00

No Sweat
London discussion forum:
The supermarket chains and sweatshop exploitation

Speaker: Jenny Ricks from ActionAid
Other discussion: on the G8;the unionisation of Starbucks

7.30, Monday 21 May
at the Plough pub. Museum Street, central London
(tubes: Tottenham Ct Rd, Holborn)

More info: admin@nosweat.org.uk
Or: 07804 891082

No Sweat: campaigning against sweatshop and child labour
www.nosweat.org.uk
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'How the working class went global', London
Start: 13:00

HOW THE WORKING CLASS WENT GLOBAL

Venue: RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ

Time: Thursday 24 May, 1-2pm

Chinese factory workers, Bolivian miners and Somali office-cleaners in Canary Wharf – globalisation has created a whole new working class, and they are reliving stories that were first played out a century ago.

What might the new working classes of the global age learn from organised labour movements of the first industrial revolution?

In a world of multi-nationals, global capital and triumphant consumerism, can the bonds of worker solidarity survive?
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Socialist feminist reading group, London
Start: 19:00
End: 20:00

Our first meeting will at 7.30pm, on Friday 25th May, in the upstairs room of the Plough, on Museum Street, WC1A 1LH (nearest tube: Tottenham Court Road).

We will be discussing the lessons that can be learnt from the German socialist women's movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The reading can be found at
http://www.workersliberty.org/taxonomy/term/456 (the summarised
version is entitled "German socialism and the 'women question'").

Future discussions will be on a wide variety of topics.
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Olympic sites: r+f building workers' meeting, London
Start: 19:00
End: 21:00

UK Rank & File Building Workers Committee

Can we trust union officials to get a good deal for us on Olympic sites?

Why not get organised ourselves

We demand:

* 35 hour week
* £20 per hour for all workers
* Direct employment
* Elected stewards and safety reps

Organising meeting at
Cock Tavern, Chalton Street, Euston
7pm, May 29

All building workers and rank and file trade unionists welcome

Contact 07749 517074
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