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All Blog Posts Tagged 'struggle' (11)

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…

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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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Added by Sandeep on June 2, 2011 at 18:50 — No Comments

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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Added by Sandeep on June 1, 2011 at 8:30 — No Comments

Brutal repression of workers in Gorakhpur

Brutal repression of workers in Gorakhpur, para-military forces and police assault and arrest workers going for peaceful ‘Mazdoor Satyagrah’

No trace of women workers, a labour leader and a girl student taken into custody…

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Added by Sandeep on May 9, 2011 at 22:23 — No Comments

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.

Around 800 workers, including a number of women workers, had assembled in the FCI…
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Added by Sandeep on May 9, 2011 at 7:30 — No Comments

Salute to the victorious people power uprising in Egypt

We salute the victorious people power uprising in Egypt against the Mubarak dictatorship. It is high time that the last pharaoh is buried in the desert. But the Egyptian people must not repeat the original sin of people power in the Philippines. They must not stop at simply changing the face of the person in power but must continue on to uprooting the system that breeds poverty and unemployment.

 

The resignation of Murabak is only the first act of the drama that will play out…

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Added by Juan Manggagawa on February 16, 2011 at 0:58 — No Comments

Revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East: The Permanent Revolution Unfolds!

 

REVOLUTIONS IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST:

THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION UNFOLDS! 

 

The National Revolution revives

This statement was originally written during the early days of the Tunisian revolt and does not attempt to deal in detail with the quick moving escalation of revolutionary uprisings in…

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Added by Charles Rachlis on February 1, 2011 at 6:16 — No Comments

SEIU 1000, Art Pulaski, & SF Labor Council join forces with Jerry Brown to shaft State Workers

No Faith in Traitorous Union Hacks or Democratic Party Politicians!

Walker and Pulaski Join Forces with Brown to Shaft State Workers!

 



Labor helped put Brown in office, and many state workers thought we had the right, in return, to expect some immediate relief from the vicious attacks imposed by the previous governor. But Brown has turned…

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Added by Charles Rachlis on January 18, 2011 at 15:58 — 1 Comment

Class Struggle, Union Ambiguities and Anti-Capitalism in South Africa

Peter sez:



Trevor Ngwane is one of the outstanding working-class intellectuals in South Africa, a long-time participant in World Social Forum events, presently working for an academic qualification at the Centre for Civil Society Durban.



Now read on...…



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Added by peter waterman on November 11, 2010 at 14:30 — No Comments

France: the Student-Worker Relationship

Peter sez:…



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Added by peter waterman on November 9, 2010 at 15:08 — No Comments

'Productivism' or Liberation? Socialists Debate Consumerism

Peter sez:



I'm having trouble copying to this page a lovely image, so will post this elsewhere on UB. Whilst waiting for this to happen, why not read the article anyway. It is from the great Australian left website, Links.…



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Added by peter waterman on November 8, 2010 at 11:30 — No Comments

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