Apparently it's not considered newsworthy beyond the local press, but a whole block of the Morningside Estate in Hackney Wick/Homerton, i.e. prime Olympic boom territory, has been without electricity for SIX days and counting.  The supplier (French state-controlled London Olympic bid sponsor EDF Energy) blames a water leak (Thames Water: acquired for £8 billion by Macquarie Bank of Sydney, 2006).  You couldn't ask for a better display of how financialized infrastructure works: resource rundown by two fragments of the former utility system converges neatly to make life impossible for guess which class demographic (sitting on guess which real estate...)

The syndicalist SAC union in Sweden has over the last few months been campaigning for fair wages for undocumented immigrants , resulting in thousands of pounds in unpaid wages being paid to migrant workers.

From Private Eye, a brief update on the lie detector system soon to be used across the UK on suspected 'benefit thieves'*, i.e. all claimants.  The system comes from Mossad, but what's really alarming is that it is administered by scorched-earth PFI war machine Capita.
*NB. Readers with no sympathy for 'benefit thieves' have come to the wrong website.

Bulletin from the Building Workers Rank & File Committee on organization beyond union opportunism in an Olympically-inflated sector where 'precarity' has a literal life-and-death meaning, and employer attempts to divide and stratify labour in relation to immigration status and other questions of 'legality' (eg 'fake self-employment') is endemic.  (Also reproduced on Libcom.org and Indymedia.co.uk)

The current tube strike in London demands guarantees that the insolvent Private Public Partnership (PPP) Metronet will not seek to cover its losses at the expense of labour. Unterschreber unravels the matrix of blame

This extract from an unfinished text by Angela Mitropoulos, posted on archive : s0metim3s (http://archive.blogsome.com/2007/08/07/indigenous-land/#comments), gives part of the historical background (which some European readers may have overlooked) to the current military-medical invasion of Aboriginal land in Australia's Northern Territory.  Most importantly, the text explains the concrete connection between intervention in the name of 'health' and 'education', the blackmailing of the 'economically inactive' into the 'job-seeking' reserve army, and the rush to extract resource rents from legally inalienable Aboriginal land.