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India’s Working Class Strike of 28 February a Clear Mandate for Immediate Reversal of Ongoing Economic Policies
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Geert Lovink on p2p, Occupy, precarious net-workers, revolution and ‘general strike’ | net critique
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F29 Shut Down the Corporations Coordinated Actions all over US
National Direct Action Coordination
We want to work collectively on this day of action with the participating occupations. Things such as national messaging and coordination will be worked out via conference calls and email. We hope that the organizing of this day of action can create a network of direct action committees that can collectively make national calls to action in the…
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+WFTU v. Spanish Communist Union Centre? (WFTU Leader, at South African WFTU Presidential Council Meet)
Following up my WFTU article elsewhere in this blog, I found this exotic piece from a leading officer of the WFTU, Quim Boix (Catalonia, Spain), in which he, along the way, attacks the major Communist trade union centre in Spain, the CCOO! This is not the first time he has done this since he did it a few months previously when representing the WFTU (or Spain, or his own Catalonian union centre?) to an anniversary congress of the Communist CGTP in Peru.…
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All-India, All Union Centre, Strike (via Sid Shniad, Canada)
Ottawa Citizen February 28, 2012 …
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Problems of 'Living Wage' Campaigns in the USA (via Yoshie Furuhashi, USA, via Debate List, SAfrica)
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Occupy Our Food Supply
"We must occupy the food system to create food democracy." —Dr. Vandana Shiva, Physicist & Seed Activist http://bit.ly/wtIaxY
Added by Viola Wilkins on February 28, 2012 at 23:44 — No Comments
The Ideal Union Organizer
This is the fourth of eight articles on union organizing.
This article is outstanding and a very helpful resource for union organizers at all stages. I think the most important thing is to not let scabs get in your way. Its tough out there, but unionists are strong.
"If unions are to grow, they'll need bigger, better and more successful organizing campaigns.…
Added by alexandria Knox on February 28, 2012 at 22:02 — No Comments
The P2P – Marxism Debate Takes Off
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European day of action on 29 February
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Menentang Kezaliman Maybank
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SOLIDARITY WITH THE WORKERS STRIKE IN INDIA - DINIA - ON THE 28TH FEBRUARY 2012
SOLIDARITY WITH THE WORKERS STRIKE IN INDIA - DINIA - ON THE 28TH FEBRUARY 2012
Today we join the biggest strike ever known - No psychic and electronic communication is to be undertaken for the purposes of work: This should include all Electronic mail, text messaging, webmail, internet communication VOIP or telephony etc. Also to include any psychic communication with persons or beings dead, undead, alive or as yet unborn.
Communications are to be directed against the bosses…
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(PLF) Solidarty With the Workers and Peoples of India
Continuesolidarity with the workers and people of India!
(PLF) Message of Solidarity…
Added by Haji Muhammad Saeed Arian on February 27, 2012 at 17:34 — 2 Comments
right to Work is Wrong for Everyone, Will You Stand With Us?
I'm outraged about the latest right-wing scam! Indiana just became the 23rd state to adopt a "right-to-work" law. Now extremist politicians are pushing right to work wherever they can -- Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, and states around the country.
But right to work isn't about rights or work. In fact, right-to-work laws drive down job standards for all of us.
Will you join me in fighting back against this deceptive policy? We need to take a stand to…
Added by alexandria Knox on February 27, 2012 at 17:28 — No Comments
Another World, NOW! – Global Spring Strategy for a Peaceful World Revolution in 2011 – 2012
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Strong Unions: The Worst Nightmare for the Financial Elite
Man wouldn't pay you unless he had to.
- Chris Rock
The antiunion movement in the United States keeps us underpaid and represents a serious impediment to economic growth. Yet antiunion sentiment remains strong among the political establishment and their patrons. Why?
Worker rights and a decent wage represent a toxic brew to the ruling…
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Jack London, the Scab
This is a true, real piece of labor history, and Jack London I believe wrote really well and complex pieces. It sure makes me think.
THE SCAB
After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab.
A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
When a scab…
Added by alexandria Knox on February 27, 2012 at 3:11 — No Comments
International Women's Day Melbourne community radio 3CR
March 8th International Women's Day 6.00pm-9.00pm cnr 21 Smith and Little Victoria Streets Fitzroy
Music, food, Radio turn up or tune in www.3cr.org.au
Added by Viola Wilkins on February 27, 2012 at 2:14 — 3 Comments
How Working Outside the Law Helped Labor Win on the West Coast
This story was originally published at Salon.
Earlier this month longshore workers in Washington state reached a contract with a boss that has spent the past year fighting to keep their union out. That company, the multinational EGT, sought to run its…
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Coming events of interest to IWW Melbourne members and others.
Industrial Workers of the World Melbourne coming events
Tuesday February 28 5.30pm - Federation Square Melbourne opposite Flinders Street Railway Station
Solidarity with Indian General…
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