Asia Pacific
French Polynesia: Fifth day of general strike
Workers’ fight against attacks on jobs, wages and pensions
Day: 15 June 2010
South Africa
Football World Cup: Riot police attack workers’ protest at Durban stadium
South African riot police fired tear gas on hundreds of security stewards protesting against wage cuts, 90 minutes after the match between Germany and Australia in Durban.
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Age of retirement: Joe Higgins MEP challenges the global attack on pension rights
At the Committee on Employment, Joe Higgins MEP challenges the neo-liberal assault on pension rights as well as the attempts by right-wing governments to increase the retirement age.
Ireland North
Ireland: March on June 26th as part of European Week of Protest & Solidarity
Text of the joint leaflet
Kosova / Kosovo
Kosova: Joe Higgins denounces arrest of Albin Kurti, leader of LPV (Movement for self-determination)
On Saturday 12 June, the leader of the movement for self-determination (LPV), Albin Kurti, was arrested by the police, acting on behalf of the colonial-style ruling EULEX European Union authorities.
Germany
Germany: 45,000 march against austerity programme
5 days after the announcement of an austerity package by the conservative-liberal coalition in Germany 45,000 workers, unemployed and young people took to the streets of Berlin and Stuttgart to say: we won’t pay for […]
Africa
Sudáfrica: Copa del Mundo de Fútbol
La policía antidisturbios ataca a los trabajadores en el estadio de Durban