May 23, 2011

Open Letter to Catherine Swift

Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) President and CEO

Based on your view that workers, once again, must shoulder the responsibility for correcting the financial situation of a corporate, crown or other entity I am compelled to write to you in response to your letter to Mr. Chopra, President and CEO of Canada Post.  It is not lost on the reader that you have attacked public sector pensions and benefits yet you…

Behind the upsurge in Spain: ‘Revolutions arrive too late or too early, but always when they’re not expected’

Maya’s reign turned into reign of terror:

Police chase out laborers throughout the day

The labor leaders start fast-unto-death in jail

 

New Delhi, 21 May. Today police and administration…

Workers lathi charged in Gorakhpur, 25 workers badly injured, 73 workers arrested along with their leader Tapish whose whereabouts are still unknown

The administration is blatantly supporting the factory owners – has not shown any inclination to dialogue, administration adamant on suppressing the movement and disbanding the striking activists…

My 1998 book (with its 2001 updating preface for the paperback) has now been made available as an ebook by Continuum Books. Regretably this is priced as US$60 but I am corresponding with the publisher for a reduced price for family, friends, the Global South, union members, etc.

In the meantime, the book can be examined, page by page, on the publisher's website. And one can (I understand) also print (but how much?) from this. One can search by chapter. One can also do a word search…

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See the facebook site for the latest on the Save our Jails Campaign.

Dave Trumble

President

Grey-Bruce Labour Council

New RPW chapter: Networked model of PUP in Mauritania | Reclaiming Public Water

Peter sez:

Ok, this is what the conference mentioned in my last posting was actually entitled and about.  What is below is converted from a PDF. The original can be found at

 http://www.excludedworkerscongress.org/images/stories/Agendav3.pdf.

Now read on...

2 2011 International Conference on the…

Peter sez:

This may appear, at first glance, a somewhat cryptic report. It consists of Patrick Bond's telegraphic notes on either the Excluded Workers Conference as a whole, or an academic event attached to it. Attached to this is a paper by Canadian socialist internationalist and Africanist, John Saul. I am making the material available whilst hoping for more substantial reports and documents, from Patrick or other international participants (Dan Gallin, Pat…

Israel's Palestinian Arab Spring

by Peter Beinart

May 16, 2011 | 2:42am

The converging of thousands of Palestinians on Israel’s borders is a sign that they have lost faith in American promises—and that if Israel and the U.S. don't work toward a Palestinian state near 1967 lines, others will seize the initiative in shaping the Middle East, writes Peter Beinart. Plus,…

Rally by various organisations in Gorakhpur in support of workers'…

1.

Baby don’t worry about it
Just face the music
Don’t talk about no luck
Don’t talk about no dream

*A long & widding road
The long and widding is not a road
It’s your mind. baby

2.

Baby Just come with me
Just face the music
Just talk about your thoughts
Just talk about your heart.

*A long & widding road
The long and widding is not a road
It’s your mind. baby

Egypt: Five socialist parties unite; Independent unions lead May Day march

By Mohamed El Hebeishy

May 11, 2011 -- Ahram online -- Five Egyptian political parties and movements unite to form the Coalition of Socialist Forces, they announced in a meeting on May 10, 2011. The newly formed…