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January 2011 Blog Posts (111)
The Real News: Roots of the Egyptian Revolutionary Movement
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6185
January 29, 2011
Bio
Mohammed Ezzeldin is a graduate of political science from Cairo University, and it doing his Masters' Degree…
Added by peter waterman on January 31, 2011 at 22:44 — No Comments
[Patrick Bond] NYT: Class Warfare and the Protest Movement in Egypt
(So glaring, that even a NYT reporter cannot ignore it.)
NY Times January 30, 2011
Rich, Poor and a Rift Exposed by Unrest
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and MONA EL-NAGGAR
CAIRO — As the government of Egypt shakes from a broad-based
uprising, long-simmering resentments have burst into open class
warfare.
Over the past several days,…
Added by peter waterman on January 31, 2011 at 16:48 — No Comments
Egypt: Founding declaration of new independent trade union federation
Egyptian Federation for Independent Unions
Constitutional Body Creation
Egypt is going through historical moments… Its people is courageously struggling to defend the right to live a decent life… the right to dignity, freedom and social justice… to decent opportunities and just…
ContinueAdded by Eric Lee on January 31, 2011 at 15:51 — 6 Comments
Chris Carlsson: Beyond 'Decent Work'...in 1992!
Peter sez:
Still going strong, a decade or two later, this argument and its author continue to challenge a labour movement that - Right, Centre and Left - is still overwhelmingly trapped within a capitalist notion of work.
The item was originally published in 'Processed World', a little magazine that was aware of the 'information…
ContinueAdded by peter waterman on January 30, 2011 at 22:22 — No Comments
Egypt: New trade union federation formed
Translation of original in Arabic into English:
Press Release
Date: Sunday, 30 January 2011
Today, representatives of the of the Egyptian labor movement, made up of the independent Egyptian trade unions of workers in real estate tax collection, the retirees, the technical health professionals and representatives of the important industrial areas in Egypt: Helwan, Mahalla al-Kubra, the tenth of… Continue
Added by Eric Lee on January 30, 2011 at 21:55 — 4 Comments
Results just in for first annual global survey of trade union use of the net
Added by Eric Lee on January 30, 2011 at 19:10 — No Comments
Support Openleaks to build peoples' global distributed intelligence service(s)!
OpenLeaks is a project that aims at making whistleblowing safer and more widespread. This will be done by providing dedicated and generally free services to whistleblowers and organizations interested in transparency. We will also create a Knowledge Base aiming to provide a comprehensive reference to all areas surrounding whistleblowing.…
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[Patrick Bond] Helmi Sharawy/Azza Khalil: The Popular Uprisings in North Africa (2007)
Peter sez:
Bearing in mind this was apparently written three years ago
it does suggest the value of critical and committed analysis, rather
than waiting for any Wikileaks, Post-Facto BBC analyses, etc. Note
the passing references to unions, which suggests to me that up to
now these have been either regime-dominated or marginalised…
Added by peter waterman on January 30, 2011 at 0:00 — No Comments
Paddy Quick: Recession, Deficit and War on the Working Class - What Every Activist Should Know
January 27, 2011
The Great Recession and the Deficit
The capitalist class is taking advantage of this Great Recession, both here and in other countries, to…
Added by peter waterman on January 29, 2011 at 16:18 — No Comments
Andrew Gavin Marshall: North Africa - Start of a Global Revolution?
Added by peter waterman on January 29, 2011 at 15:22 — No Comments
Via Campesina (an international farmers/landless movement) at World Social Forum, Dakar
Added by peter waterman on January 29, 2011 at 14:30 — No Comments
Social Networking the revolution, LA Times reports
Added by Orsan Senalp on January 28, 2011 at 22:13 — No Comments
[Sid Shniad] US Labour Protests FBI Persecution of Anti-War Activists
Added by peter waterman on January 28, 2011 at 21:31 — No Comments
[Debate List] Marc Ames: Stop the Austerity Craze
Added by peter waterman on January 28, 2011 at 17:22 — No Comments
Al Jazeera: Massive street protests in Cairo (video)
Peter sez:
Try this one for coverage of the events, Friday, January 28, 2011.
Now click on:
Added by peter waterman on January 28, 2011 at 16:50 — No Comments
Tunisia: Interview with UGTT Deputy Secretary General Hacine El Abassi
On January 14, 2011, Ben Ali, the Tunisian dictator, was forced to flee the country as a result of the revolutionary mobilizations of an entire people.
No sooner had Ben Ali fled than all the reactionary forces -- both inside Tunisia and on a world scale -- rushed to form a…
ContinueAdded by Brian Ross Ashley on January 28, 2011 at 2:25 — No Comments
See the video: Manifesto of the 21st. Century.
http://www.youtube.com/user/carlintovar?feature=mhum#p/a/u/2/gQWPOMYLDLE
And, if you speak Spanish, see other videos in my Youtube channel.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQWPOMYLDLE…
ContinueAdded by Carlos Tovar Samanez on January 28, 2011 at 1:59 — No Comments
Social Network Unionism 'Blog in Progress' is online, visit!
Social Network Unionism 'Blog in Progress' is online, open to your visit. I will try to link this blog and that one, until it works I will paste posts in this space manually!
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Added by Orsan Senalp on January 26, 2011 at 22:41 — No Comments
Assaults on Union headquarters in Tunisia - urgent
International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples
Wednesday, 26 January at 11 a.m.
On Tuesday, January 25, in several provincial cities in Tunisia, the headquarters of the General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT) were attacked and vandalized. In Tunis, during a counter-demonstration in support of the national unity government (which the UGTT is urging to step down) a banner denounced the ongoing strikes demanding the ouster of the government and… Continue
Added by Brian Ross Ashley on January 26, 2011 at 20:52 — No Comments
[Global Labour Institute] Richard Fletcher: How The CIA, etc, Shaped the Post-WW2 UK Labour Party
Added by peter waterman on January 26, 2011 at 18:22 — No Comments
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