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Today, I will be mostly worrying about the International Telecommunication Union...



So basically, there's this UN agency that was set up in 1865 to facilitate telegram standards.



Now China, Iran, Russia, Saudi, and a whole rogues gallery of countries are trying to give it the power to regulate the Internet. And not just the pipes, as they're used to, but to regulate what people are actually allowed to do on it, and how traffic moves between countries.



Worse, the…

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The 24th January, measures…

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Check out this logo, designed by a comrade in Canada:

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The Illinois Labor History Society is hosting a rededication of the Haymarket Martyrs Monument on May 1 and would like messages of support, speakers from unions outside the USA, and donations. For full details, check out their home page

Articles of mine about the situation in Egypt have recently appeared in both the Guardian (U.K.) and Jungle World (Germany).  I hope you find them of interest.

The total number of participants in the survey was 1,336 making it one of the largest we’ve ever done.

The countries providing the largest number of responses were predictably mostly Anglophone as the survey was only conducted in English this time. Here are the ten largest groups:

• United Kingdom – 260
• USA – 243
• Canada – 236
• Australia – 167
• Ireland – 45
• Norway – 40
• New Zealand – 39
• India –…

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CENTER FOR TRADE UNION WORKERS AND SERVICES (CTUWS)

Winner of the Prize of the French Republic for Human Rights…

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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…

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Center for Trade Union & Workers Services (CTUWS)



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

Click here to read the full report.

We've just added the 'social sign-in' feature introduced by Ning. What this means, in (almost) plain English, is that if you have an account on Facebook, Yahoo or Google, you can sign in with those details (including your password) if you don't remember your details on UnionBook. And when we recruit new members to UnionBook, they can set up their accounts using details from Facebook, Yahoo and Google -- no need to remember all those log-ins and passwords. So the next time someone says, 'what,… Continue

Look at the upper right corner of this page - select a language. See what happens. OK, this is not perfect but it's a huge step forward.

And yes, we're ramping up the pressure on Ning to allow users to select their own languages for UnionBook.

Yet another reason how Facebook $ucks and why union members should join UnionBook. FB has a new groups policy that allows groups to add you as a member without you requesting to be added. Gone is the old setup where you received an invitation. Now, you apparently don't even receive a notification that you have "joined" a group.



The group just shows up on your sidebar and in your news feed. You can be made a member of a group whose views you do not accept, indeed one that might subject… Continue

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Here are the results:



Use the new version on http://unionbook2.ning.com (Ning) - 83.0%

Use the old version on http://www.unionbook.org (Elgg) - 7.0%

Try something different (e.g., Buddypress or Drupal) - 6.1%

Abandon the whole idea of a social network for trade unionists- 4.0%



This is a clear indication of what you all want, and that's why we've decided to make the move… Continue

The Vital Force of Working Class Cultures Across Time and Space

Peter Waterman

Paul Mason,…

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