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China Protest Update
[Debate] (Fwd) China protest update
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Added by peter waterman on July 29, 2012 at 18:00 — No Comments
Stephen Lerner and Bill Fletcher Jr on Whether (US) Labour is a Lost Cause
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Turkey Treats Public Sector Unionists as Terrorists
[Debate] Turkey Arrests Public-Sector Unionists Under Broad Terror Law
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Added by peter waterman on July 26, 2012 at 15:37 — No Comments
Mondragon, Basque Country, Spain: An Alternative to Capitalism?
Added by peter waterman on July 26, 2012 at 10:39 — No Comments
Farmworker Deaths in South Africa and Canada
Tuesday, 24 July 2012 14:50
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Poland: Women Workers Protest in 'Special Economic Zone'.
Sackings expose the harsh reality of Poland's junk jobs
The dismissal of 25 workers from the Chung Hong factory for a legal strike highlights the price workers pay for Polish…
Added by peter waterman on July 24, 2012 at 14:48 — No Comments
Mass strikes and demonstrations in Spain (from one week ago but continuing)
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 In Defence of Marxism 13 July 2012 Friday, July 13, was the second day of widespread walk outs by civil servants and public sector workers against the latest austerity package of the right wing Popular Party government of Mariano Rajoy. More protests are… |
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All in Common: A New/Old Slogan for Labour Internationally
Peter sez:
I have long thought this 2003 item out of date. I never got any feedback on it. I am now, however, thinking it was only premature. For the last couple of years 'the commons' have been moving into the foreground of innovatory social movement discourse. I may have posted a couple of such relevant items elsewhere on this blog. Acknowledgements here to Massimo de Angelis who, with his Commoner website (see below), was even more premature than I, and who…
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Even the New York Times sees the Writing on the Wall for Unions?
Peter sez:
Possibly the NYT sees the writing on the wall for US - and many other national union movements - but he does not see the writing on the other side of the wall. There is, possibly, a hint of such writing where he refers to the alliance between the AFL-CIO and the Domestic Workers Alliance in New York. But, then, one would have to know the nature of the latter and the nature of the alliance. Being allied with Business Unionism Inc (aka AFL-CIO-USState Inc)…
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From Communism to Commonism? Peer-to-Peer Production (Hilary Wainright, UK)
Peer-to-peer production and the coming of the commons
Michel Bauwens examines how collaborative, commons-based production is emerging to challenge capitalism. Below, Hilary Wainwright responds
Illustration: Andrzej Krauze
‘At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with…
Added by peter waterman on July 20, 2012 at 10:19 — 2 Comments
African Labour and the Chinese Dragon
Added by peter waterman on July 19, 2012 at 17:39 — No Comments
Review of three books on the Wisconsin, USA, uprising.
A Look Back in the Mirror at the Wisconsin Uprising
July 18, 2012
By Kim Scipes
Kim Scipes's ZSpace Page
A Review Essay of It Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest, ed. by Mari Jo Buhle and Paul Buhle; Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest,…
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New Labour Party attends Old Union Gala: Much Ado About Very Little?
Added by peter waterman on July 19, 2012 at 9:22 — No Comments
Israel's environmental colonialism and eco-apartheid
Peter sez:
Although I in general refrain from posting here items that do not directly deal with unions, workers or labour, it does seem to me that this item bears on all working people (however widely or narrowly defined) , in Israel, Palestine and the Occupied Territories. Those interested in the full item can link to it.
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[Debate] Israel’s environmental…
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Support Polish Workers in Chinese Army Plant in SEZ, Poland!
Request for support workers strike Chung Hong plant in SEZ, POland
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The International Worker Sports Movement(s) of the Inter-War Period
Socialist Worker 2311, 14 July 2012
www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=29024
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A league of our own: the story of the workers' sports movement…
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Defending the Right to Strike in South Africa (Roger Ronnie, Amandla)
Added by peter waterman on July 13, 2012 at 9:30 — No Comments
Inter/national Union Policy on Israel/Palestine: Analogous to Terrorism?
Peter sez:
Yet another piece by Eric Lee on the growing international union campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel. It does seem to me that applying to these a typology of terrorism threats is not simply insufficient but a serious obstacle to a full understanding of the matter.
A full understanding requires that Zionists in general and the Israeli Histadrut in particular have realise and recognise why the past highly-positive image of…
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How to Save Unions with Capitalist Advertising Techniques?
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It's difficult to see what's 'left' about this project. The language of 'image' and 'branding' and 'recovering' is that of capitalist advertising and public relations, and having it presented, quite uncritically, as something labour can benefit from seems, to me, to further incorporate unions into a capitalist culture.
What is, surely, rather needed is a reinvention of the labour movement, with such a process certainly requiring…
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On the Newest Waterfront: the USA's first major union+occupy social conflict
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This is just the Intro to a long piece that details the dispute and draws conclusions. Amongst the latter is the notion that labour needs a political party. This demand, which is quite widespread in the USA, contrasts dramatically with the Real Democracy and Indignants movements in Europe, which are as much against political parties as against capital and state.
The link immediately below gives access to the Full…
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