International solidarity is not an act of charity: It is an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objective. The foremost of these objectives is to aid the development of humanity to the highest level possible.
~ Samora Machel

INVITATION TO THE EUROPEAN MEETING TO PREPARE “FLORENCE 10+10″

New US police state

Israeli outpost state 

Question: Could two state be solution for Israel or in general to solve the increasing gaps between the rich ad the poor? Or how many states more do we need?

you answer me kid! 

Real solution would be a stateless and classless society! Labour class and unions can not be linking 'states', but well…

It's true! The big money people want to put the rookie squad into our classrooms. Corporate funded attacks on public education and teachers’ unions have portrayed higher paid, more experienced teachers as the villains of the current financial crisis. It’s good-bye, Mr. Chips and sayonara, Ms. Frizzle.

In 1987-88 the typical primary or…

Peter sez:

I have long thought this 2003 item out of date. I never got any feedback on it. I am now, however, thinking it was only premature. For the last couple of years 'the commons' have been moving into the foreground of innovatory social movement discourse. I may have posted a couple of such relevant items elsewhere on this blog. Acknowledgements here to Massimo de Angelis who, with his Commoner website (see below), was even more premature than I, and who…

(PLF)  Condemned the Police  Attempts to Break the Strike of the Steel Workers.

On behalf of the Executive Board of Pakistan Labour Federation (PLF) we condemned the Police  attempted to break the strike and to make hindrance to stop the  heroic struggle of the steel workers, and  arresting the strikers  who have been on strike for the last 9 months.

we are fully supporting the action of  PAME, to responded immediately and…

All India Protest Day held today by AICCTU against the management of Maruti Suzuki Plant, Manesar and ongoing arrest of workers by police in connection with yesterday's incident at the Plant. In Delhi, workers of AICCTU protested at Jantar Mantar and submitted a memorandum at Haryana Bhawan. A 3-member fact finding team of AICCTU visited the area

New Delhi, 20 July 2012: 

All India Protest Day was held today by AICCTU…

Peter sez:

Possibly the NYT sees the writing on the wall for US - and many other national union movements - but he does not see the writing on the other side of the wall. There is, possibly, a hint of such writing where he refers to the alliance between the AFL-CIO and the Domestic Workers Alliance in New York. But, then, one would have to know the nature of the latter and the nature of the alliance. Being allied with Business Unionism Inc (aka AFL-CIO-USState Inc)…

Peer-to-peer production and the coming of the commons

Michel Bauwens examines how collaborative, commons-based production is emerging to challenge capitalism. Below, Hilary Wainwright responds

Illustration: Andrzej Krauze



‘At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with…

(PLF) demanded the Government of Indonesia to stop the privatization of Water Supply in Jakarata

on behalf of the Executive Board of Pakistan Labour Federation (PLF) we are fully supporting the Jakarta Water Union and their members those are arranging   two days demonstration on 18 and 19 July in Jakarta for the increase of their wages and stop the Privatization.

we also demanded to  increases the Wages and improving the working conditions.…