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Peter waterman's Blog – May 2011 Archive (21)
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Workers' Councils Meeting in Venezuela (Links, Australia)
Venezuela: First national meeting of Socialist Workers’ Councils discusses workers' control
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An International Info Workers Union - Only Online (iWorkers Union, Canada)
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Cairo Inspires Prague: 48,000 Against Cuts (Socialist Worker, UK)
Issue: 2253 dated: 28 May 2011 International
posted: 5.59pm Tue 24 May 2011
Prague says: 'Cairo made it, so can we'
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Digital Labour: Workers, Authors, Citizens (Ephemera Journal)
The Digital Labour Group in the Faculty of Information and Media
Studies at the University of Western Ontario and /ephemera: theory and
politics in organization/ are pleased to announce the arrival of
Volume 10: 3-4:
/Digital Labour: Workers, Authors, Citizens/
Edited by Jonathan…
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Spain, Swaziland, Solidarity (Patrick Bond, Debate, South Africa)
http://jointhespanishrevolution.wordpress.com/
Why your country may consider to join the protests taking place in Spain?
In Uncategorized on May 20, 2011 at 12:04 am
To explain it briefly, because we are fighting for pure common sense. Our concerns are political responsibility and civil participation. We are neither a group of fascists nor communists. We are not just angry young people or irritated elderly.… Continue
Why your country may consider to join the protests taking place in Spain?
In Uncategorized on May 20, 2011 at 12:04 am
To explain it briefly, because we are fighting for pure common sense. Our concerns are political responsibility and civil participation. We are neither a group of fascists nor communists. We are not just angry young people or irritated elderly.… Continue
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The Social Upsurge in Spain: No Joy for the Traditional Left nor the Newest Left? (Links, Australia)
Behind the upsurge in Spain: ‘Revolutions arrive too late or too early, but always when they’re not expected’
“There are many Joses here, I’m not sure if its my turn or another Jose”, said Jose, a middle-aged man standing on the outer rim of a grupo de trabajo (work group) called at midnight on an adjacent street to Sol, the plaza known as point zero, in the heart of Madrid. The plaza has been occupied, as have dozens…
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Precarious Liberation of (only?) South African Workers (New Book of Franco Barchiesi)
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'Globalisation, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms' now in Adobe Ebook format
My 1998 book (with its 2001 updating preface for the paperback) has now been made available as an ebook by Continuum Books. Regretably this is priced as US$60 but I am corresponding with the publisher for a reduced price for family, friends, the Global South, union members, etc.
In the meantime, the book can be examined, page by page, on the publisher's website. And one can (I understand) also print (but how much?) from this. One can search by chapter. One can also do a word search…
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NYC Conference on the Precariat (2nd Posting)
Peter sez:
Ok, this is what the conference mentioned in my last posting was actually entitled and about. What is below is converted from a PDF. The original can be found at
http://www.excludedworkerscongress.org/images/stories/Agendav3.pdf.
Now read on...
2 2011 International Conference on the…
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Notes on New York Conference of/on the Precariat (Patrick Bond)
Peter sez:
This may appear, at first glance, a somewhat cryptic report. It consists of Patrick Bond's telegraphic notes on either the Excluded Workers Conference as a whole, or an academic event attached to it. Attached to this is a paper by Canadian socialist internationalist and Africanist, John Saul. I am making the material available whilst hoping for more substantial reports and documents, from Patrick or other international participants (Dan Gallin, Pat…
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Israel's Palestinian Arab Spring Plus... (Peter Beinart, Dan Ephron, via Patrick Bond's Newsletter)
Israel's Palestinian Arab Spring
by Peter Beinart
May 16, 2011 | 2:42am
The converging of thousands of Palestinians on Israel’s borders is a sign that they have lost faith in American promises—and that if Israel and the U.S. don't work toward a Palestinian state near 1967 lines, others will seize the initiative in shaping the Middle East, writes Peter Beinart. Plus,…
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Cairo's Mayday: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Links, Australia)
Egypt: Five socialist parties unite; Independent unions lead May Day march
By Mohamed El Hebeishy
May 11, 2011 -- Ahram online -- Five Egyptian political parties and movements unite to form the Coalition of Socialist Forces, they announced in a meeting on May 10, 2011. The newly formed…
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Cairo's Mayday: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Links, Australia)
Egypt: Five socialist parties unite; Independent unions lead May Day march
By Mohamed El Hebeishy
May 11, 2011 -- Ahram online -- Five Egyptian political parties and movements unite to form the Coalition of Socialist Forces, they announced in a meeting on May 10, 2011. The newly formed…
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Union Follow Up on Wisconsin (via Sid Shniad)
http://www.thenation.com/article/160620/post-wisconsin-game-plan
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Published on The Nation (http://www.thenation.com)
The Post-Wisconsin Game…
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Israeli Histadrut's Ofer Eini deaf to Arab winds of change (Assaf Adiv, Challenge E-Mag)
Peter sez:
What this article fails to mention is that the same Ofer Eini is a leading figure in the Brussels-based ITUC. Moreover, at its last Congress, the ITUC both reconfirmed his position and suppresed a South African COSATU attempt to get a BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) resolution even tabled. So the isolation of the Histadrut is far from…
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Unionism, Austerity, The Left (Sam Gindin, The Bullet, Canada)
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Love for Capitalism Not What it Used to Be (Fred Weston, Marxist.Com)
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The 'Great Moderation' and the International Assault on Labor (Noam Chomsky, ZCommunications, USA)
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TULIP Attacks Cosatu Support for Boycott of Israel and the Histadrut Union (TULIP, 050511)
Peter Sez
This item should be read in conjunction with one I just posted on the Palestinian union appeal to the international trade union movement to boycott Israel and its Histadrut trade union organisation.
What follows is not, in fact, a STORY, it is an EDITORIAL.
This op-ed piece not only attacks the South African Cosatu but…
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