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  • Honduras: A selective and low-intensity human hunt
    26 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Another murder in broad daylight
    A little after noon on Wednesday, Feb. 24, in the city of San Pedro Sula, there was a knock on the door at Claudia Larissa Brizuela’s house, where she was celebrating her 36th birthday. As soon as she opened the door she was gunned down, with three shots to the head that killed instantly. Claudia was an active member of the trade union of employees of the Mayor’s Office, where she worked. She was also the daughter of Pedro Brizuela, a prominent local (…)

  • New Caledonian union leader set free from ‘inhumane’ jail
    18 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    New Caledonia’s pro-independence USTKE (Union of Kanak and Exploited Workers) union leader Gérard Jodar has been granted release from a nine-month jail sentence he was serving for disrupting air traffic during violent clashes on the tarmac of the Magenta domestic airport late May 2009.
    The ruling was handed down by an Appeals Court in New Caledonia’s capital Nouméa, local media reported.
    Mid-September 2009, a former appeal ruling reduced Jodar’s initial sentence of 12 to nine months. (…)

  • Venezuela: El Libertario warns of possible sentence to the 14 Sidor workers
    25 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    In 05 September 2006 a group of workers and union leaders staged a protest against the carrier Camila, a contractor to SIDOR (Siderúrgic of the Orinoco), the principal steel core business located in Puerto Ordaz, Bolivar state, in Venezuela. The workers were protesting the failure to pay wages, and maintain health and safety, as well as the lack of tools to accomplish their work. The protest was endorsed by Readers of the “Sindicato Único de Trabajadores Siderúrgicos y Similares (Sutiss)”, (…)

  • Record numbers join anti-Sarkozy protests
    20 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Record numbers took to the streets of France yesterday in the biggest demonstrations since Nicolas Sarkozy’s election, to protest about his handling of the economic crisis.
    Unions estimated that more than three million people took part in demonstrations across the country, in the second general strike over the economic crisis in two months. Police put figures at about 1.2 million. With one in three people supporting the protest, it had the highest public backing for a strike in a decade. (…)

  • PETITION - "We will not pay for your crisis !". For a European social movement
    16 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    PETITION - "We will not pay for your crisis !". For a European social movement
    « We will not pay for your crisis !!
    « We will not pay for your crisis » is the slogan that has been echoing in all Italy for more than a month now. The wave of protests is spreading and more than 300 000 demonstrators on November 14th have taken up the slogan that across the borders shout at our political leaders. They are thousands of students, teachers and parents, who are thinking and acting for another (…)

  • The Bologna Declaration : Critical notes - Part 2
    7 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Employability
    Employability is a point around which the Bologna Declaration has based its rhetoric of the positive forces of the free market.
    The Bologna Declaration sustains rhetoric of employability that is central to the redefinition of HE as an economic system. It promotes tools like the Diploma Supplement (a document giving more information about the contents of a qualification earned) aimed at increasing the depth and comparability of degrees across Europe. This is supposed to make (…)

  • The lot of witnesses that "La Repubblica" is missing
    27 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    There are many people who have been forced out of their jobs and academic careers, from postgraduate researchers to professors, because of bullying in universities in Britain.
    We know that these same problems exist elsewhere around the world and seems to worsen the more neoliberal policies and ideologies are forced upon Higher Education systems. Sometime the problem of bullying and mobbing in the universities around the world is obscured and difficult to translate as behaviours and (…)

  • An education system not to trust
    26 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The THE has published a survey in which 77% of lecturers denounce that they are pressurised to award higher grades to students than deserved. There are some important perversions of interest underlying the publication of such data by the THE.
    If the THE, the universities, the QAA, the government, the pseudo-unions, or anyone else in the elite caste architecting the direction of British HE, wanted to really ensure meritocracy and student-centred learning in academia, they would first (…)

  • Stop elite research now!
    11 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Research in universities across the globe is becoming more and more privatised.
    This must be stopped because it will centre power in the hands of a few who will inevitably ask for the payment of very high university fees and will not give access to research which does not support their speculative interests.
    Berlusconi in Italy is trying to privatise most of the public university research. This should be stopped!
    Italian students and universtity professors are united in a "line of (…)

  • A case of disciplinary action against a university academic
    5 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    A case of disciplinary action against a university academic is presented on COBAS UK. In the analysis a case for managerial discrection and union passivity is presented highlighting how disciplinary procedures are internalised within the system in order to extend managerial control.
    http://www.cobas.org.uk
    COBAS UK