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Socialist Worker 2300, 28 April 2012
www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=28302
International
by Jan Majicek, Prague
Last Saturday more than 120,000 people gathered in Prague’s Wenceslaus Square to demonstrate against government austerity. It was the climax of a week of protest—as well as the biggest…
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Peter sez:
Well, Coincidence Lives! Read the following item, and follow it up, after checking previous postings on the Trotskyist take on the newest social movements wave and...networking!
PS. I have not read any of it myself yet.
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In February of this year the Tory employment minister, Chris Grayling, launched an astonishing attack on the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) while live on national radio. Responding to a campaign against a government “workfare” scheme which puts unemployed people to work for no…
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More than a documentary, it's a vehicle for a global movement for corporate accountability and union rights.
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Peter sez:
We still lack anything like a complete report on the last (or previous) LabourStart Conference. This just found report gives a fuller report than any other I have read and posted on this blog.
Now read on...
Report by Omid Rezai of International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran on
Labourstart Conference, Istanbul.
2011-11-24
“One Hundred Unions. Thirty…
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Peter sez:
On an occasional vist to the site of the World Federation of Trade Unions, I noted the conference presence of a representative of the Iranian Workers' House. This is Item 1 below. In search of more information about this body, I found this condemnation of the WH and appeal to WFTU by a Western-based solidarity group. This is Item 2 below. Further information about the WH can be found on the website listed at the end of this item (there is a button on the…
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http://www.clb.org.hk/en/node/110032
China’s workers emboldened: Strikes escalate in March
By Jennifer Cheung
The number of strikes recorded by China Labour Bulletin in March 2012 reached its highest monthly total since we started monitoring worker protests on a day to day basis 15 months ago. A total of 38 strikes were logged across…
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Peter sez:
I have cut this piece to what relates to Histadrut. I am assuming that the background piece on Histadrut was appended to her piece by Yoshie Furuhashi. Otherwise I have the same question posed by her relating to the significance of any Left list within this organisation. Can anyone enlighten us?
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Resistance against free trade agreements has increased since the demonstrations at the WTO ministerial conference in Seattle in…
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