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Peter waterman's Blog – March 2012 Archive (34)
2 Reviews of Wisconsin Uprising Books (c/o Yoshie Furahashi + Debate List)
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Wisconsin: Making Sense of the Uprising
C. Estelle Clark reviews It Started in Wisconsin.
Ellen La Luzerne reviews Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back
Harry Richardson reviews We Are Wisconsin
by C. Estelle Clark
Nothing…
Added by peter waterman on March 30, 2012 at 22:30 — No Comments
Review Article: Reviving the Strike in the USA (Steve Early, Monthly Review, USA)
Added by peter waterman on March 29, 2012 at 21:24 — No Comments
Does Massive Casualisation of Labour Reveal the Irrelevance of Cosatu? (Fazila Farouk and Ighsan Schroeder, South Africa)
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Labour Brokers Bad for SA Workers,
but Trade Unions Not Much Better
Fazila Farouk of the South African Civil Society Information Service interviews Ighsaan Schroeder of the Casual Workers Advice Office,…
ContinueAdded by peter waterman on March 29, 2012 at 17:30 — No Comments
Occupy and Unions Provide Free Subway in New York City! (via Jai Sen, India, and Kolya Abramsky, Somewhere)
Added by peter waterman on March 29, 2012 at 1:16 — No Comments
Why Workers are Striking Across Spain and Portugal? (The Real News, USA)
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Added by peter waterman on March 28, 2012 at 21:32 — No Comments
Needed: Trade Union Sign-On to This Anti-Capitalist European Initiative!
Added by peter waterman on March 27, 2012 at 23:20 — No Comments
International Organisation for a Participatory Society (Michael Albert, ZNet, USA)
Added by peter waterman on March 27, 2012 at 17:18 — No Comments
Cosatu Squaring up to ANC? (Pambazuka, South Africa)
SOUTH AFRICA: COSATU TO SQUARE OFF WITH ANC
Simmering tensions between the ANC and its ally Cosatu are expected to
come into sharp focus at a high-level meeting. Said to be aimed at
thrashing out differences over e-tolling and labour broking, the two
issues over which Cosatu called a one-day strike and led well-attended
protest marches earlier this month, the meeting is expected…
Added by peter waterman on March 26, 2012 at 15:41 — No Comments
Jeff Noonan: Capitalist Crisis and the (North American only?) Left (Socialist Project, Canada)
Added by peter waterman on March 25, 2012 at 16:10 — No Comments
The Sorry State of Our Unions: Only in Canada? (Globe & Mail, via Sid Shniad, Canada)
Added by peter waterman on March 25, 2012 at 12:43 — No Comments
From National European Strikes toward a Euro-Strike? (Common Dreams, USA, via Sid Shniad, Canada)
Added by peter waterman on March 24, 2012 at 20:42 — No Comments
John Holloway: Two (Labour?) Movement Solutions to the Crisis - Pro-Capitalist and Post-Capitalist
John Holloway: We are the Crisis of Capitalism
Richard Menec …Added by peter waterman on March 23, 2012 at 15:48 — No Comments
Blockupy Frankfurt, May 16-19 (via Jai Sen, Cacim, India)
Peter sez:
Will the (German and other) trade unions respond? I hope so but have no idea if they are able or willing to follow the lead of the Occupy Movement and become a partner within it. Nor whether the Brussels Conference (publicised by Orsan Senalp elsewhere on this site) will itself endorse and help…
ContinueAdded by peter waterman on March 22, 2012 at 21:30 — No Comments
India: World's Biggest Public Works Scheme: Debate Needed (Gurgaon Workers News, India)
Added by peter waterman on March 21, 2012 at 17:02 — No Comments
New London MSocSci Course: Labour, Social Mvts, Development
Added by peter waterman on March 21, 2012 at 0:11 — No Comments
Sasha Simic: Egypt and its Workers One Year On (via Sebastian Budgen, Historical Materialism List, UK)
Added by peter waterman on March 20, 2012 at 19:10 — No Comments
Metalworkers Regional Congress Moving Left? (c/o Debate List, SAfrica)
Peter sez:
Not at all sure I endorse the headline below. That's not simply because alongside criticism of the SACommunistParty, we have endorsement of the ANC's Neo-Liberal President and continuation of a Tripartite Alliance that makes Numsa and Cosatu co-responsible for the Neo-Liberalism and the specific qualities this has in South Africa. It is also because of the declaration's language, in which 'Left' means energetically waving a 20th…
Added by peter waterman on March 20, 2012 at 17:11 — No Comments
A Basic Income Grant to Increase Basic Freedom...in the USA? (via Debate List, SAfrica)
Peter sez:
Another BIG argument for increasing the freedom of citizens and the power of workers. As with all of the new ideas, this does not come from the trade union movement. Yet it would certainly increase the power of workers in bargaining with employers. Whether this would also increase the power of UNIONS, which worship work and only want to make it 'decent' is another question. BIG should, however, make a contribution to reinventing a labour MOVEMENT fit for the 21st…
Added by peter waterman on March 19, 2012 at 14:57 — No Comments
The Contradictions of Union and Labour Protest in South Africa (Terry Bell, Business Report, via Debate List)
Added by peter waterman on March 17, 2012 at 15:30 — No Comments
200,000 Workers March Across South Africa, March 7 (Committee for a Workers International)
Added by peter waterman on March 17, 2012 at 15:00 — No Comments
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