“Jobs” Don’t Work!
This is a shortened version of an article I wrote in the wake of the 2003 Mayoral campaign in San Francisco, and published in The Political…
The occupation movement that began on Wall Street and is…
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Peter waterman's Blog – October 2011 Archive (24)
UK Unions: Solidarity with Palestine - Full Statement
http://www.bdsmovement.net/2011/ptuc-bds-formed-6912#.Tq48dHKa9GU
Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for BDS (PTUC-BDS) formed at historic conference
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Adam Hanieh: Why UK Trade Unions Should Support BDS against Israel (Links, Australia)
Adam Hanieh from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) development studies department was one of the speakers at a forum, "Palestine's fight for freedom", held in London on October 24, 2011.The meeting was initiated by the National Union of Rail Maritime & Transport (RMT) London Transport Region and supported by the SOAS branch of Unison and the University and…
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Critique of and Alternative to 'Decent Work' (Tribe of Moles, South Africa)
Peter sez:
I know it is long and theoretical but I do think that if anyone is interested in escaping from the 'Decent Work Trap' and developing instead an emancipatory strategy for labour, then this is worth struggling with. The Tribe of Moles amounts so far, I believe, to a small group of labour-oriented researchers/activists in South Africa, inspired by the South-Africa-based book by Franco Barchiesi, 'Precarious Liberation',…
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'Trade unions and the global crisis' (ILO and Global Labour University book)
Peter sez:
An at least unusual publication from the ILO in so far as, for example, Chapter 3 would seem to question the very foundations of the ILO, social partnership, traditional trade union strategies.
Now read on:
INTRODUCTION
Turning the tide is as much a battle of ideas as it is a question of mobilizing
public protest. …
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Chris Carlsson ('Nowtopia'): Jobs Don't Work (From Nowtopian Blog, San Francisco)
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Mike Davis, Labour Historian, on Occupy Wall St, etc (c/o Patrick Bond, South Africa)
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Jeremy Brecher, of Global Labour Strategies, on Occupy Wall St (The Nation, USA)
Published on The Nation (http://www.thenation.com)
The People Out of Doors: Change You Can Believe In
Jeremy Brecher | October 21, 2011
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What is the Left Position on the Euro Crisis? (Dick Nichols, Links, Australia)
Peter sez:
A wide-ranging consideration of the crisis and various left alternatives.
Click on...
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Book Review on Street Workers Movements and Unions (Pat Horn via Patrick Bond, South Africa)
Peter sez:
Pat Horn, Durban, South Africa, is actually the coordinator of StreetNet International, and a former coordinator of street traders in Durban. She is well placed to comment on the value of this unique book by the German-based Turkish researcher, Ercüment Celik. The full reference for his book is:
Çelik, Ercüment. 2010. Street Traders: A Bridge between Trade Unions and Social Movements in Contemporary South Africa.…
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Excellent Graphic on Alternatives to Cuts in UK (Socialist Worker, UK)
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What Happens When A Hyundai Plant Lands on a Czech Village
Sad, depressing and - finally - comic!
A village gets conquered by money and conflicts between farmers.
One of the hold-outs makes a monument to his resistance out of old car parts.
New workers are required to sing some Hyundai song (some do, some don't).
A young male worker on the assembly line is paid about E500 a month.
Meanwhile, the local production of cabbage for sauerkraut continues.
Czech it out:…
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OCCUPY WALL STREET AND UNIONS, USA, (From The Organiser, USA)
Occupy Wall Street, the Trade Union Movement and
the Fight to Stop the Cuts and Concessions
The Organizer
Tens of thousands – if not hundreds of thousands – of people have taken to the streets over the past four weeks across the United States as part of an Occupy Wall Street movement to protest the intolerable conditions of massive unemployment,…
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Peter Waterman: An Emancipatory Global Labour Studies is Necessary! (NetzwerkIT, Germany)
Introduction
There is a welcome new wave of what is beginning to call itself ‘The New Global Labour Studies’. This considers work, workers and unions in the light of globalisation and then at local, national, regional and global level.
The new wave could be considered, at least in part, to accompany the new ‘Global Justice and Solidarity Movement’…
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Homeless Working Mothers' Strike in Neo-Liberalised Poland (Video by Feminist Think Tank)
Excellent video but, for some reason, UB can't download it and the URL doesn't seem to work for my computer. Let me know if you manage to download it.
http://blip.tv/szumtv/strajk-matek-5623289
It's sub-titled in English and deserves further circulation. Here's the story:
About this episode
TV-UNWalbrzych is a city in southwest Poland,…
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Veteran Left US Feminists and OWS Movement (Zillah Eisenstein, Chandra Mohanty, via Edu-Factory)
http://thefeministwire.com/2011/10/in-support-of-occupy-wall-street/
By Zillah Eisenstein and Chandra Talpade Mohanty…
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Occupy Dublin (and Philadelphia)! (Helena Sheehan, Debate List, South Africa
Hi Comrades.
I've been so caught up in this new movement that I haven't had much time
to write much more than tweets and facebook updates. I've been involved with
Occupy Dublin since the week before it happened and close to Occupy Philadelphia
too. I've been down at he Central Bank in Dame…
I've been so caught up in this new movement that I haven't had much time
to write much more than tweets and facebook updates. I've been involved with
Occupy Dublin since the week before it happened and close to Occupy Philadelphia
too. I've been down at he Central Bank in Dame…
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Visiting Occupy London - and its Union Appeal/Outreach ('Lenin', via Debate List, South Africa)
Monday, October 17, 2011
Visiting Occupy London posted by lenin
I went to visit the Occupy London site at St…
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Joel Andreas, Capitalist Expropriation and Workers in China (Links, Australia)
China: 'Smashing the iron rice bowl' -- expropriation of workers and capitalist transformation
"Managers have powerful market-based incentives that their predecessors did not—fines, bonuses and the threat of termination." Graphic by Jon Berkeley.
By Joel Andreas
October 2011 --…
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Ewa Charkiewicz: Working Women and Crisis in Easter Europe (AWID, via CADTM, Belgium)
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Immanuel Wallerstein, etc, on Occupy Wall Street, Unions, International Impact (via Debate List, SAfrica)
Commentary No. 315, Oct. 15, 2011
"The Fantastic Success of Occupy Wall Street"
by Immanuel Wallerstein
The Occupy Wall Street movement - for now it is a movement - is the most important political happening in the United States since the uprisings in 1968, whose direct descendant or continuation it is.
Why it started in the United States when it did - and not three days, three months,…
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"The Fantastic Success of Occupy Wall Street"
by Immanuel Wallerstein
The Occupy Wall Street movement - for now it is a movement - is the most important political happening in the United States since the uprisings in 1968, whose direct descendant or continuation it is.
Why it started in the United States when it did - and not three days, three months,…
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