Chile’s ghosts are not being rescued
What Can Prevent Future Disasters?
11 October 2010 ICEM InBrief AlertChile - China - Colombia - Russian Federation - Turkey - Ukraine - United States - South Africa…
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Peter waterman's Blog – October 2010 Archive (24)
Dutch Organize2Change Day, December 10, 2010
FNV Mondiaal conference ‘Organize2change’ - 10 December 2010
http://www.organize2change.nl/workshops/
‘Organizing’ is hot. This method of organizing and mobilizing people, which has come across from
America, is being used all over the world, including by the FNV. One example is during the successful
strike by cleaners earlier this year.
FNV Mondiaal is seeking to improve the working conditions of employees… Continue
http://www.organize2change.nl/workshops/
‘Organizing’ is hot. This method of organizing and mobilizing people, which has come across from
America, is being used all over the world, including by the FNV. One example is during the successful
strike by cleaners earlier this year.
FNV Mondiaal is seeking to improve the working conditions of employees… Continue
Added by peter waterman on October 31, 2010 at 16:32 — No Comments
Quick impressions of Dutch Union's International Solidarity Conference
These are first and superficial impressions of the one-day event held October 30 by ABVA-KABO (the major Dutch public sector union). I have been a member since around 1973, have continued to pay my dues after retirement 11 years ago, but have been active only at such solidarity events.
Background:
Abva-Kabo has some history of international solidarity activities, mostly limited by the discourse of 'development cooperation', but more recently addressed to the Middle East in… Continue
Background:
Abva-Kabo has some history of international solidarity activities, mostly limited by the discourse of 'development cooperation', but more recently addressed to the Middle East in… Continue
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South African Civil Society Conference Includes Labour Issues
Declaration of the Civil Society Conference held
on 27-28 October 2010, Boksburg
Civil Society Conference Declaration,
Politicsweb, 28 October 2010
The Civil Society Conference held on 27-28 October 2010 was a
historic turning point in the history of South Africa. Over 300
delegates…
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Canada: Fighting Israeli Apartheid
Published on rabble.ca (http://rabble.ca)
Fighting Israeli apartheid by 'besieging the siege'
By rabble staff
Created Oct 29 2010 - 3:52am…
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New Social Mvt Alliance, India, On Social Security of 96% 'Unorganised' Workers
Added by peter waterman on October 28, 2010 at 10:30 — No Comments
Springtime for Workers in the Chinese “workshop of the world"
International ViewpointNews and analysis from the Fourth International
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IV Online magazine
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IV429 - October 2010
China
A workers’ spring in…
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Autonomy: The Struggle for Survival, Self-Management and the Common
Peter sez:
This symposium was published in the journal Antipode. I have extracted (free access) the introduction to the symposium. For likewise free access to the various contributions, see this URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.2010.42.issue-4/issuetoc.
For anyone thinking that, maybe, this has nothing to do with labour, search for the… Continue
This symposium was published in the journal Antipode. I have extracted (free access) the introduction to the symposium. For likewise free access to the various contributions, see this URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.2010.42.issue-4/issuetoc.
For anyone thinking that, maybe, this has nothing to do with labour, search for the… Continue
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The Revolt Shaking France
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Added by peter waterman on October 25, 2010 at 11:59 — 1 Comment
Why Labour is (Part) of the Problem in Building the Left
This is a video of a lecture by Frances Fox Piven, veteran US specialist on the poor and social movements:
http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls71.php
http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls71.php
Added by peter waterman on October 22, 2010 at 15:00 — 3 Comments
ISRAEL, PALESTINE AND THE GROWING GLOBAL BOYCOTT MOVEMENT (PART ONE)
Added by peter waterman on October 21, 2010 at 12:10 — No Comments
Workers without Papers in France: a New Social Force
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ICEM on Chilean (and other) Miners
11 October 2010 ICEM InBrief AlertChile - China - Colombia - Russian Federation - Turkey - Ukraine - United States - South Africa…
Added by peter waterman on October 18, 2010 at 15:50 — No Comments
John Pilger on the Chilean Miners
Added by peter waterman on October 16, 2010 at 15:26 — 2 Comments
Needed: a global labour charter movement
Needed: a global labour charter movement
Peter Waterman
This Charter was first floated in 2005. It has been published in labour…
ContinueAdded by peter waterman on October 16, 2010 at 8:23 — 2 Comments
Australia-Asia Solidarity Links: 'A Global Labour Movement Charter'
australia asia worker links - workers change the world
po box 45 carlton south victoria 3053 australia tel: + 61 3 9663 7277 email: aawl@aawl.org.au web: aawl.org.au
aawl october 2010
global labour
movement
charter
The right to organise unions and take collective action
including industrial action and solidarity actions
The right of all workers to organise collectively without
being subjected to violence, intimidation or… Continue
po box 45 carlton south victoria 3053 australia tel: + 61 3 9663 7277 email: aawl@aawl.org.au web: aawl.org.au
aawl october 2010
global labour
movement
charter
The right to organise unions and take collective action
including industrial action and solidarity actions
The right of all workers to organise collectively without
being subjected to violence, intimidation or… Continue
Added by peter waterman on October 15, 2010 at 19:54 — 2 Comments
Adam Michnik: Prague Spring and Polish student movement of 1968 paved the way for freedom
Rattling the Kremlin's cage: 40 years on
They may have been naive to expect change, but the Prague Spring and Polish student movement paved the way for freedom
Added by peter waterman on October 12, 2010 at 11:13 — No Comments
Banksy@Simpsons: The Trouble with Outsourcing
excerpt:
'This is what you get when you outsource,' joked The Simpsons executive producer Al Jean. The sequence ends with a
horrifying version of the logo of the show's parent company, 20th Century
Fox.…
horrifying version of the logo of the show's parent company, 20th Century
Fox.…
Added by peter waterman on October 12, 2010 at 11:00 — No Comments
Peter Evans: Is it Labour's Turn to Globalise? (Abstract from an Open Access Journal)
Home
> GLOBALLABOUR
> Vol. 1
> Iss. 3 (2010)
>…
Added by peter waterman on October 10, 2010 at 11:34 — 4 Comments
Africa's Informal Workers...and their Internationalism
Added by peter waterman on October 9, 2010 at 19:36 — 1 Comment
The containerisation/commodification of universities and students globally
Peter sez:
Despite the imperfect English, this article suggests the increasing similarity under capitalist globalisation of the university and the factory, the student and the worker. Just one translation note: 'Keetwonen City' - the existence of which was unknown to me in The Hague (30-40km away) - means something like 'Chain Housing City'. Enough said.…Continue
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