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Peter waterman's Blog – July 2011 Archive (21)
Striking Back at Egyptian Workers (Hesham Sallam, Jaddaliya)
Added by peter waterman on July 31, 2011 at 16:05 — No Comments
Labour and Social Protest News from South Africa
Peter sez:
I get this email about once a month from the Centre for Civil Society, Durban, South Africa. Although this is not a labour- or union-specific site, it certainly carries a lot of labour and social protest reports. The CCS is also the base for the Debate website, from which I occasionally copy and paste items to UBook.
Now read on...
Select material from the CCS…
Added by peter waterman on July 30, 2011 at 15:43 — No Comments
Some Questions about the Forthcoming LabourStart Conference
I am raising these questions here because the conference pages on UB do not seem to be too active yet.
Since I don't have any institutional or union backing, I will not be able to attend but will certainly take advantage of any such online access as Eric is proposing. Given the title, 'From Social Networks to Social Revolutions', and the red flag symbol, plus its siting in the volatile periphery between Europe and the so-called Global South, I am very much looking forward to this…
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Occupy Wall Street! (Peter Hall-Jones, New Unionism)
Peter sez:
If you want to see the brilliant illustration/poster accompanying this posting, you'll have to go to New Unionism, of check out the URLs given (which I have not yet tried).
Now read on...
#occupywallstreet
Recent calls for activists to occupy Wall…
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Building Union-Progressive Alliances (Asbjorn Wahl, Global Labour Column)
Global Labour Column
http://column.global-labour-university.org/
Building progressive alliances
by Asbjørn Wahl*
Number 65, July 2011
The social conflict in Europe has…
Added by peter waterman on July 27, 2011 at 6:22 — No Comments
Life, Labour and Climate Justice - A Challenge to the ITUC\ILO Worldview? (Andrew Ross, Autonomedia, 2010)
Life, Labour, Climate
Andrew Ross
As radicals, it is our job to respond to the very newest political formations, and few have…
Added by peter waterman on July 25, 2011 at 14:47 — No Comments
COSATU co-sponsors a Russell Tribunal on Palestine, Cape Town, November (Debate List, South Africa)
Winnie star witness against Israeli 'apartheid'
ANNA MAJAVU
The Times Johannesburg 20 July,…
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Added by peter waterman on July 21, 2011 at 12:29 — No Comments
Application Global Labour University 2012 in South Africa
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Added by peter waterman on July 20, 2011 at 18:59 — No Comments
Layoff Resistance Korea Solidarity Campaign (Park Hyun-jung, The Bullet, Canada)
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Added by peter waterman on July 20, 2011 at 13:35 — No Comments
Good South African Sitefor Labour and Related Issues? (Centre for Civil Society, Durban)
Select material from the CCS Website. To view the full articles click on the more links or visit our website: http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za
Editorial Analysis
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Added by peter waterman on July 16, 2011 at 16:04 — No Comments
Notes on Israel and the International Trade Union Movement (Eric Lee, LabourStart)
Peter sez:
I have previously expressed appreciation for the low profile Eric Lee, the creator of UnionBook, has preserved on this site. I regret, however, that this piece, surely relevant to on-going exchanges on UB, is posted only on his own site where, moreover, 'comment is closed' even before it has opened. Since I have elsewhere posted my own views on the matter and…
Added by peter waterman on July 16, 2011 at 10:09 — No Comments
Launch: Labour and Precarious Liberation (Franco Barchiesi, Centre for Civil Society, Durban, South Africa)
Topic:
Millions of black South African workers struggled against apartheid to redeem employment and production from a history of abuse, insecurity, and racial despotism. Almost two decades later, however, the prospects of a dignified life of wage-earning work remain unattainable for most South Africans. Through extensive archival and ethnographic…
Added by peter waterman on July 15, 2011 at 7:09 — No Comments
Egypt at ILO: New Unions Condemn Old at International Labour Conference (CTUWS, Egypt)
Peter sez:
A compelling story about unions and the ILO. It raises in my mind a question not only about the ILO itself, accepting for decades Egyptian (previously Communist) state-controlled unions as legitimate representatives of workers they controlled and oppressed. It also raises a question about what other inter/national trade unions…
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Added by peter waterman on July 11, 2011 at 14:08 — No Comments
Egyptian Revolution: People's History (El-Amine and Henaway, The Bullet, Canada)
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Abstract: Workers' Participation and Control: Worlds Apart (Christopher Gunn, Rev Radical Pol Econ, USA)
Workers' Participation in Management, Workers' Control of Production: Worlds Apart
Christopher Gunn gunn@hws.edu Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Abstract
For several decades workers’ participation in management was a persistent demand of the left. In the neoliberal era it became, in a twisted way, a reality for some workers. Team organization of production, reduction of supervisory staffing, and a constant drive for productivity improvement became…
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Unions, European Social Forum, Euro-Left Parties on the Crisis and Alternatives
Since September 2010, forces involved in the European Social Forum and In European social mobilisations wished to organise this conference, a year after the European-wide hyper-austerity agreement:
ATTAC (Germany, France, Hungary, Flanders, Spain), CADTM (France, Belgique, Suisse, Greece, Spain, Poland), Transform! Europe,…
Added by peter waterman on July 8, 2011 at 7:53 — No Comments
Unique Union Document on the National and International Labour Movement (Cosatu, South Africa)
Peter sez:
I have only rapidly scanned this document but I have to say that it is the most ambitious and internationally-conscious national union document that I am aware of, certainly at the present moment and as far back as I have been active in or on the international labour movement.
It therefore provides a basis for serious international discussion that we have not seen from the Eurocentric and Social-Reformist ITUC in Brussels, the Eurocentric and…
Added by peter waterman on July 7, 2011 at 19:20 — No Comments
Egypt: Left Debates Arab Spring (Nicola Pratt, Links, Australia)
Added by peter waterman on July 4, 2011 at 10:43 — No Comments
The Battle for Cosatu (Mail and Guardian, South Africa)
Peter sez:
I am depressed by this story suggesting major disagreements within Cosatu over the policy and leadership of the ruling ANC part and its partner in the Triple Alliance, the Communist Party. Involved or interested South Africans may understand the Byzantine…
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Added by peter waterman on July 2, 2011 at 15:57 — No Comments
China Beware! Capital is a Fickle Lover (Walden Bello, Common Dreams, USA?)
Added by peter waterman on July 2, 2011 at 15:25 — No Comments
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