Brilliant video of the WHOLE March 26 march

What an absolutely brilliant video. Paul gets the whole thing including speeches, music and even him chatting away or trying to avoid being removed! Flick through to see all the different banners, colours, actions and so on. Well done Fourmanfilms.

Leninism in the 21st century-welcome to Counterfire

Well, now the lack of stuff on this blog is explained...we have all been busy beavering away behind the scenes with a brand new project. More details on how to get involved on the front page-sign up for our weekly bulletin which will provide details of how to register for the sight, how to send in articles, videos, photo's etc.

We look forward to working with you in this brand new way.

I shamelessly copied the blurb from our news editor's blog The Sauce because, in true internet fashion, we operate on a creative commons licence :-) Thanks Brendan!

News and theory publication Counterfire was launched today with a plethora of reports and essays focusing on the crisis in capitalism, imperialism and war and popular culture.

The website is being launched on International Women's Day with a 60 strong team including an investigations team, an industrial unit, arts reviews and peer reviewed publications.



Lindsey German, author of Material Girls, Women, Sex and Work and convenor of Stop the War said: “We live in a world of growing conflict, crisis and inequality and Counterfire is a much needed new voice calling for fundamental change.”

Adrian Cousins, editor of the new site, said: “Counterfire includes snappy news articles alongside expert analysis of the most important issues today with original design, photography and video. There is a blog aggregate so those interested in the movements know where to come.”

John Rees, broadcaster and author, said: “The journalism and analysis on Counterfire will provide a welcome alternative to the discredited and failing policies of the political elite.”

Elly Badcock, women's officer at SOAS and women's editor, said: “It's fantastic that on the 100th International Women's Day this powerful new site which uses the latest technology is providing a platform for the new feminism of the 21st Century.”



The site features daily news from the movements including articles on protests, petitions and campaigns alongside theory analysing the economy, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and campaigns against the BNP and the English Defence League.

The site is available at counterfire.org with news being fed through twitter at www.twitter.com/counterfire with a video feed at youtube.com/counterfire. Articles on the site can be reproduced with permission and attribution.

Launch articles on the site include:

The Feminist Manifesto for the 21st Century, with video from Saturday's packed meeting at Housmans bookshop by Lindsey German and Nina Power

Report from Joe Glenton's court martial, from the organiser of the Stop the War protest

An examination of Gramsci's relevance today

An "awesome new tool for activists" is quietly launched

From the excellent Trade Union mailing LabourStart:

In today's mailing:

1) An "awesome new tool for activists" is quietly launched
2) Thailand: Campaign against sacking of union leaders who protested unsafe working conditions
3) Labour newswires go local
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1) An "awesome new tool for activists" is quietly launched

Unless you're a regular reader of the official Google blog (and I'm not) you probably haven't heard of Google SideWiki.  But a trade union activist in New Zealand has stumbled on something that he calls an "awesome new tool for activists".   And he may be right.

I won't tell you much more, but will instead suggest you read what Google has to say:

http://tinyurl.com/lkbxbw

And when you're done, and have set this up on your computer (it will take you less than a minute), go visit http://www.nestle.com and see what I've done to Nestle's global website.

2) Thailand: Campaign against sacking of union leaders who protested unsafe working conditions

The headline just about says it all, doesn't it?

Please go to the ITF website to send off your message and to learn more:

http://www.itfglobal.org/solidarity/thairail.cfm/letter/41/

3) Labour newswires go local

Here's a new service for your union's website -- local labour news from your state or province.

If you live in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, South Africa or India and your union website would like to show the latest local labour news, we now have the ability to create customized labour newswires for you.  We've done it for unions in Kansas -- see this page:

http://tinyurl.com/yey3rpd

If you'd like a customized newswire for your state, province or region, please write to us telling us what you'd like and giving us the details of the website it will appear on.

That's all for now -- have a great weekend

Eric Lee

Euston PCS new blog-Save Our Support Services

Comrade Anna shows off her Web2.0 skills. And what an excellent use of them. Good luck with the campaign. We are right behind you.

Follow their campaign on the new blog HERE.

Egyptian TAX COLLECTORS lead the wave of militancy

The most unlikely of striking workers show that militancy should/could come from any quarter.

Egyptian TAX COLLECTORS rally for their Free Union. Previously in Egypt all unions were connected and organised by the State. Last year in a wave of occupations, strikes and protests the Tax Collectors won the right for a Free Union. But now this is under threat due to the Government awarding a commison to the State-backed union.

This from Arabawy, where you can get regular updates (his blog is linked at the bottom of mine under 'IST blogs' for easey finding)

Egypt’s property tax collectors are starting an open-ended strike on Tuesday, protesting the Finance Ministry’s decree by which a project for a social welfare fund was commissioned to the state-backed union instead of the independent union that enjoys the support of the majority of the ministry’s civil servants.

There are also many many links to other similar posts on his blog. Look for his automatic 'Bookmarks' on his blog or on his Delicious account.