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A challenging piece by a veteran UK-based socialist. I would be inclined to endorse what he says about Occupy procedures since the same set of problems arise with the World Social Forum. As for his positive presentation of union activity in relation to the Occupy and other protest movements of 2011, I would be inclined to ask whether this means unions are capable of escaping the social-liberal institutions and discourses with which they have been so long and so heavily…
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By Nizar Amami
January 12, 2012 -- International Viewpoint -- The 22nd congress of Tunisia’s UGTT trade union federation (Union Générale des Travailleurs Tunisiens, General Union of Tunisian Workers)…
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Wow! I thought that China was the one - fairly large - country, building up a Marx-type industrial proletariat. But according to veteran Martin H-L, it seems to building up a similar kind of precariat to the rest of the world.
On my previous assumption I had also presumed that the coming thing is China would be a movement toward ILO standards and even affiliation of the ACFTU to the ITUC! But even if this somewhat starry-eyed vision…
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George Soros, in an interview with Newsweek magazine titled “George Soros on the Coming US Class War”:
“I am not here to cheer you up. The situation is about as serious and difficult…
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I am sure I posted access to this paper as a draft:
'An Emancipatory Global Labour Studies is Necessary!
On Rethinking the Global Labour Movement in the Hour of Furnaces'
But here it is as a Working Paper of the…
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[WSF-Labor and Globalization] international campaign for freedom of association in Fiat
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Peter sez:
Tried to post this on Global Labour Column but word-restriction prevented me doing so in full. Let's hope I haven't exceeded the UB limit. You can find Eric's piece either on GLC or on my page here earlier in January.
Now read on...
The comments so far are rather less aware of the problems of online union solidarity campaigning than Eric himself:
'The ITUC, for…
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This online journal, shortly to do a special issue on New Worker Movements, is now available both on its own site and on that of a more general e-publisher, into-ebooks-com, in Finland.
Below I have placed the URL of a past special issue on Alternative Media. In addition to my own contribution on international labour communication by computer after two decades, there are numerous other items (as well as an excellent editorial, dealing with the pleasures and pitfalls…
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Is there not here something of a recurring pattern? It is my impression that every 10-15 years the Nigerian unions gather up their courage for a general strike only to settle it later in disappointing terms? I do not, however, feel that a Left posing the alternative as socialist revolution is more than a traditional kneejerk reaction. And unlikely to have any impact on either unions, 'civil society' or the poor on the streets more generally. It seems to me that the shabby…
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Way too long to post but a complex and sensitive analysis that should be required reading for Leftist internationalists.
Now click on...
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This is the first of a two-part interview done by Walton Pantland on his CyberUnions Site. It seems to me rather slow and halting, possibly because it was unprepared by both of us. But maybe I was just not used to being interviwed. If interested, check it out, see if it downloads, and let us know about your reactions.
Oh and the interview itself starts at just…
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Nigeria lowers price at the pumps to quell labour unrest
January 17 2012 at 05:00am Felix Onuah and Joe Brock Abuja
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan announced a cut in petrol prices to 97 naira (R4.74) a litre yesterday, a gesture that prompted unions to suspend mass protests to allow further…
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PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Washington.
As the Russian protests rocked the plans of President Putin, who, as Boris Kargalitsky wrote, wanted the elections to legitimize decisions that had already been made, these protests, as he said, essentially were led by segments that were more or less neoliberal or nationalist, but not much by what I guess Boris would call the left.…
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Well, I picked this one up in Spanish on another UBook page. It was first published in English on a site worth visiting, the Global Labour Column - http://column.global-labour-university.org/2011/01/global-labour-online-campaigns-next-10.html. Surfers comments on the GLC original are also reproduced…
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Removal of Oil Subsidy Protest in Nigeria: Conflicting roles by NLC, TUC and Civil Society
Fidelis Allen
“Labour has been bought. They have compromised. As civil society in Rivers State we thought we could work with labour, but they…
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Occupy Nigeria
JANUARY 9, 2012 BY SEAN JACOBS 5 COMMENTS…
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Job sharing and increased leisure are the answer to rising unemployment, claims thinktank…
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Labor Takes Aim at Walmart -- Again Spencer Woodman The Nation January 4, 2012 Source URL: http://www.thenation.com/article/165437/labor-takes-aim-walmart-again
In October two shabby buses filled with Walmart employees stopped unannounced outside the company's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas.…
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