Work/ Labor

By CELEAN JACOBSON, Associated Press Oct. 15, 2009

STANDERTON, South Africa – Protesters barricaded a major highway with rocks and burning tires Thursday, clashing with police who fired on them with rubber bullets.

Mon Oct 12, 2009

CONAKRY (AFP) – Shops, markets and offices were closed Monday in Conakry and other cities after labour unions called on residents to stay home in protest at the September 28 massacre which killed at least 150 people.

(AP:LIMA, Peru) Police say that rock-throwing protesters have killed a police officer and injured another at a shuttered U.S.-owned smelter.

Doe Run Peru closed the plant in June after lenders cut credit. The company says it can only resume operations if the government gives it more time to clean up La Oroya, one of the most polluted places on earth.

The company already missed a 2006 cleanup deadline it agreed to when it bought the smelter in 1997.

Workers are demanding a government deal to reopen the smelter. The officers died in a protest on Tuesday.

Libcom.org Sep 6 2009

Thousands march in "independent class" protest march in Salonica, putting party-controlled unions to shame, while anti-police riots break out anew in Athens.

The first weekend of September in Geeece saw the bare teeth of class antagonism in defiance of the ever increasing police brutality and unaccountability.

Sept. 2, 2009 Libcom.org

In the run-up to the huge protest marches of the coming weekend in Salonica, Greece sees immigrants' hunger strikes, Wind workers take up pickets for national strike, as well as the Athens Stock Market and one Ministry hit by guerrillas.

Tue Sep 1, 2009

CAPE TOWN (AFP) – South Africa has issued around 2,000 letters of dismissal to soldiers who last week staged an illegal march and tried to storm the seat of government, the defence ministry said Tuesday.