Europe

May 11, 2008

PATRAS, Greece (AFP)--Hundreds of protestors demonstrated in the southern Greek Peloponnese region to protest the working conditions of migrant farm labourers, police sources and union organisers reported.

More than a thousand people, including members of the communist-affiliated Workers Militant Front, or PAME, and several of the seasonal workers themselves, attended the demonstrations, which were called by PAME.

The protests took place in several towns in the region, including Nea Manolada and Vardas, Nikos Gontikas, a PAME official told AFP.

It was in Nea Manolada that seasonal workers held a three-day strike in early April, the first time that they had staged this kind of action.  read more »

Libcom.org April 23, 2008

Workers at France's seven biggest ports went on strike today to protest a government plan to sell dock-equipment management to private companies and take staff off public payrolls.

Sixty-seven vessels including thirty-nine tankers stranded at the harbor's entrance. Government officials, port managers and union representatives are yet to tally the costs of the strike. A 17-day walkout last year in Marseille alone cost Manutention Generale Mediterraneenne, the port's biggest cargo- handler, €1.5 million ($2.4 million).  read more »

April 19, 2008 RTTNews

On Saturday, police spokeswoman Ilona Tymlova said that an estimated 2 thousand people gathered in a Czech village to protest against the placing a US missile shield base in a nearby military zone, according to reports. The protesters then marched in rain from Misov, southwest of Prague, to the limits of the Brdy military zone in what was one of the largest protests against the US radar.

The Czech Defence Ministry said that Czech and US negotiators are likely to wrap up missile defence talks next week. The Czech-US agreement requires approval in parliament where the centre-right ruling coalition so far lacks clear support for the project.  read more »

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 Earth Times Zagreb - Over 40,000 workers from all over Croatia took part in Zagreb Saturday in a mass protest calling for higher wages to keep pace with the rising cost of living. Despite very heavy rain and low temperatures, the demonstration - under the banner "together for higher wages" - turned out to be the biggest such event of its kind in over a decade, Croatian HRT television reported.

The peaceful demonstration cheered trade union leader Kresimir Sever's declaration that "Croatia is split - there are a few super- rich people, and countless poor."  read more »

Russia: Commemorating Aleksey Krylov in Moscow anti-fascist murdered by Neo-Nazis

19th of March, 3 days after murder of Aleksey Krylov on his way to concert of Petrozhavodsk oi!-band Nichego Horoshego, anti-fascists of Moscow gathered to commemorate him.  read more »

By ROB HARRIS, Associated Press Mar 11, 2008

MANCHESTER, England - A city police chief who led an investigation into charges that Britain cooperated with secret CIA flights to transport terrorism suspects without formal proceedings has been found dead, his deputy said Tuesday.  read more »

hackney gazette 29 February 2008

PIRATE radio stations operating in Hackney have been taken off air.

Four illegal stations were targeted as part of a swoop across London by the broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, and the police.

Officers stormed addresses across Hackney, as well as in Haringey,  read more »

From Times Online March 3, 2008

Protesters have scaled a crane opposite the Houses of Parliament to call for a referendum on the European treaty, in the third such stunt seen in the last week.

Days after green demonstrators mounted the roof of a British Airways plane at Heathrow and a separate group staged a rooftop protest at the House of Commons, two men climbed hundreds of feet late last night and were still there this morning.  read more »

By AVET DEMOURIAN, Associated Press March 1, 2008

YEREVAN, Armenia - Armenia's president imposed a state of emergency Saturday after police used tear gas and fired shots into the air to disperse demonstrators protesting alleged fraud in last month's presidential election.  read more »

Mon Feb 25,2008

LONDON (AFP) - Four activists from environmental campaigners Greenpeace breached security at London Heathrow to stage a protest on top of a jet against the airport's planned expansion, the group said Monday.  read more »