Social Control Archive

April 6, 2011: News in brief – Watching the Corporations

 [responsivevoice_button] -G4S wins £100m Olympics security contract -BP to resume drilling

The true cost of tickets for the Olympics: community and workplace organising?

[responsivevoice_button] Official prestige tickets for the 2012 Olympics, which include food

Bosses step in to protect scab companies as firefighters are hospitalised

[responsivevoice_button] The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) had planned to hold a

DFID in India VI: False promises

 [responsivevoice_button] The final part of the Dodgy Development: DFID in India

Vale-Inco strike now longest in Sudbury Basin history

[responsivevoice_button] The longest industrial dispute in over 100 years of mining

World Cup strikes may be stopped

[responsivevoice_button] A month before football’s World Cup in South Africa, workers

Dodgy Development III: A DFID Education

 [responsivevoice_button] Richard Whittell and Eshwarappa M’s study of the British Government’s

Local fisherman and anti-Shell campaigner jailed for 7 months in County Mayo

[responsivevoice_button] A number of key campaigners and activists opposed to Shell’s

Dodgy development: DfID in India

[responsivevoice_button] India is the biggest single recipient of British aid, with

Blacklisting workers in the construction industry

[responsivevoice_button] Trade union members and other ‘troublemakers’ in the UK have

Police condone covert Internet surveillance

[responsivevoice_button] The City of London police have recently dropped their inquiries

Google’s new spy

[responsivevoice_button] Users of Google’s newly released Internet browser, Chrome, were shocked