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Debating new global grass-roots labour activism in Tunis
Debating New Global Unionism
Is one big networked union possible or necessary?
Recent experiences in the US, Europe and else where like general strikes in Span, Greece, UK, Oakland, US West Coast, May 1st, Walmart strikes, 14N European general strike, IWW Occupy collaborations, factory and work…
Added by Orsan Senalp on February 17, 2013 at 17:47 — No Comments
CLC open letter to Prime Minister Harper on Bill C-377
OTTAWA – The President of the Canadian Labour Congress has sent a strongly-worded letter to the Prime Minister regarding legislation that will harass unions, invade the personal privacy of…
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Global Forum on Migration and Development - Civil Society Days
Date: November 29, 2011 to December 2, 2011
Time: 09.00 - 17.00…
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Report of fact-finding team on the 3rd May firing on workers in Gorakhpur and the repression
New Delhi, 3 June. The three-member fact-finding team comprising media persons and social activists which enquired into the incident of firing on factory workers on 3rd May in Gorakhpur city of Uttar Pradesh has raised questions on the role of the local administration and police while demanding a high-level enquiry in the incidents.
The fact-finding team which visited Gorakhpur from 19 to 21 May released its report in New Delhi today. The…
Added by Sandeep on June 4, 2011 at 5:00 — No Comments
A major victory for the agitating workers in Gorakhpur, dismissed workers taken back
Factory owners buckle under pressure - Locked out
mills to start from June 3
New Delhi, June 2. Workers in Gorakhpur achieved a major victory in their struggle…
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India : Gorakhpur workers occupy locked out mill
Gorakhpur 31 of May. Workers in Gorakhpur have occupied a locked out yarn mill since Monday to press for their demands. Workers in Gorakhpur have been agitating for several weeks on their demands. The struggle intensified after May 3 when hired criminals called by the owners of a factory fired on them injuring 19…
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Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy, Tiziana Terranova | Sendika.org
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Brutal repression of workers in Gorakhpur
No trace of women workers, a labour leader and a girl student taken into custody…
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Immediate action needed! Please call, fax, raise your voice against this lathicharge on workers
The district administration today attacked the peaceful demonstration of workers in Gorakhpur who were proceeding to the Divisional Commissioner's office to start a Mazdoor Satyagrah to demand justice in the case of firing on workers injuring 19 workers and a girl student.
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Around 800 workers, including a number of women workers, had assembled in the FCI…
Added by Sandeep on May 9, 2011 at 7:30 — No Comments
Free on-line books on Canadian Labour from AU Press
Visit the site below for more info and links...
http://nextyearcountrynews.blogspot.com/2010/12/free-ebooks-on-labour-from-au-press.html
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Networks, Movements, Unions meet in Joint Social Conference, March 2011, thu 10th and fri 11th, Brussels - ITUH / Draft declaration
Added by Orsan Senalp on February 28, 2011 at 21:00 — No Comments
GAIA launches a wikipage: Toward a Global Labour Charter
Added by Orsan Senalp on February 22, 2011 at 22:08 — No Comments
Toward A Global Labour Charter
The below is the text excerpted from the wiki page of GAIA, the first ever transnational social network union. Join GAIA, and discussion on the Charter, modify the text, and participate with others to the collective process. Spread the word!
http://openfsm.net/projects/gaia/global-labour-movement-charter
Australia Asia Worker…
Added by Orsan Senalp on February 17, 2011 at 17:10 — 1 Comment
[Global Labour Journal] Mona Meurer: Review of Standing's 'Work after Globalisation'
Added by peter waterman on February 1, 2011 at 22:48 — No Comments
[The Bullet] Hicham Safieddine: Tunisia/Egypt - Reform or Revolution
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Latest issue of open-access online journal: Global Labour Journal
Greetings,
Global Labour Journal is pleased to announce that the latest issue of the Journal (GLJ 2.1, January 2011) is now available for free download online:
http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/
In this issue:
**Special Issue: Making Public Sociology, guest-edited by Michael…
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[Cacim, New Delhi] Lessons of the World Social Forum, Detroit, 2010
Peter sez:
For those interested in the WSF process, in which the inter/national trade unions are taking increasing part, the Detroit Forum may be of some interest. On the one hand this was a forum oriented toward the poor and the marginalised, on the other this discussion suggests the presence or even awareness of labour was marginal.
Now read on...
Learning from the US Social…
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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
[TruthDig.Com] Chris Hedges on the US Left that (still?) Thinks Obama and the Democrats are Progressive
TruthDig.com January 24, 2011
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Where Liberals Go to Feel Good
Barack Obama is another stock character in the cyclical…
Added by peter waterman on January 25, 2011 at 0:36 — No Comments
[Debate List, RSA] Declaration of the Autonomous Left, South Africa
DECLARATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC LEFT FRONTContinue
ADOPTED BY THE FIRST NATIONAL CONFERENCE
20-23 January 2011
Post-apartheid capitalism is leaving a trail of hunger, poverty, anger
and misery. The wealthy elite, the bosses and their hangers on refuse to
concede a single inch to the urgent needs of the majority. They label
even the most modest reforms as the thin edge of the wedge of communism.
And as always the government shakes and concedes…
Added by peter waterman on January 24, 2011 at 18:33 — No Comments
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- Report of fact-finding team on the 3rd May firing on workers in Gorakhpur and the repression
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- India : Gorakhpur workers occupy locked out mill
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