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Peter waterman's Blog – December 2011 Archive (41)
What About Dissent in Turkey (including Feminists and Labour)? (Socialist Project, Canada)
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Added by peter waterman on December 29, 2011 at 14:14 — No Comments
Beyond Solidarity Appeals and Responses in 2012?
Whilst approving of and occasionally responding to the increasing flood of international solidarity appeals appearing on UBook, LabourStart or other networks, it does seem to me that we need to surpass this model of stage.
I am thinking of moving from the undifferentiated, individualised, easy and automated e-response to something that is more targeted, collective, demanding and substantial one.
I am aware that inter/national unions and even individual union branches or locals…
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28 Theses on Class Society, the Proletariat, Unionism, etc (Kosmoprolet, Germany)
Peter sez:
For those interested in challenging (not obscure) libertarian Marxist class and union theory, this extract might provoke attention to the Full Monty [delete] Marxist original. Oh, and it is available in German and, possibly, other languages.
Now read and click on...
http://www.kosmoprolet.org/node/52
23. As a result of capital’s frontal attacks, the trade unions have…
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Dana Frank: Obituary for US Labour Historian, David Montgomery (The Nation, USA)
Published on The Nation (http://www.thenation.com)
David Montgomery, Grand Master Workman
Dana Frank | December 19, 2011
When people first met him, they were sometimes confused or fooled. Surely this mild-mannered, shy, even a bit…
Added by peter waterman on December 23, 2011 at 16:49 — No Comments
Eddie Webster: Global Labour - A South African Perspective (Global Dialogue, ISA)
Added by peter waterman on December 22, 2011 at 21:05 — No Comments
Pun Ngai: Global Labour - A Chinese Perspective (Global Dialogue, ISA)
Global Labor – a Chinese Perspective
http://www.isa-sociology.org/global-dialogue/2011/07/global-labor-%E2%80%93-a-chinese-perspective/
by Pun Ngai, Hong Kong Polytechnic…
Added by peter waterman on December 22, 2011 at 21:02 — No Comments
Enrique de la Garza: Global Labour - A Mexican Perspective
Added by peter waterman on December 22, 2011 at 20:51 — No Comments
Rob Lambert: What Possibilities for Global Labour? (Global Dialogue, Internat. Sociological Assoc)
Peter sez:
I welcome this piece by an old friend and interlocuteur, Rob Lambert, noting a recognition of and reaching out toward the newest wave of emancipatory social movements. I am, however, unconvinced that the major distinction or contradiction in the international labour movement lies on the North-South axis, since the majority of unions in the Global South (not to mention those in the ex-Communist world) are uncritical members of the Northern-based and…
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Problems of Labour-Occupy Relations at Oakland, Bay Area, USA (Socialist Worker, USA via Sid Shniad, Canada)
Added by peter waterman on December 16, 2011 at 20:41 — No Comments
Great Video of Egyptian Worker Demonstration (Real News, USA)
The Real News December 16, 2011
Egyptian Workers Strike and March Against Regime
Workers say repression getting worse as they fight for a minimum wage …
Added by peter waterman on December 16, 2011 at 20:30 — No Comments
Eric Lee: Beyond Borders: Union and Social Media (Our Times, Canada)
Peter sez:
In so far as Eric exercises some self-denying ordinance about posting his own stuff on UBook, we would miss such items as this one if someone else were not to place them here were we could have an exchange about them.
I think that Eric does the new social media and even the internet a disfavour where he presents these as new tools - that they do something bigger, faster, further. Marc Poster…
Added by peter waterman on December 16, 2011 at 20:00 — No Comments
Labour and the Left Seminar - Publication to Follow (Transform!)
Peter sez:
This seminar was hosted by Espaces Marx, which I believe to be related to the French Communist Party. For more information - in French - see http://www.espaces-marx.net/spip.php?article716.
Now read on...
Espaces Marx Staged a Seminar
About Labour and the Left
The seminar about labour staged
by Espaces Marx in Paris, on 18
November, brought…
Added by peter waterman on December 15, 2011 at 18:35 — No Comments
Peter Hall-Jones: The Occupy Movement (NewUnionism)
Added by peter waterman on December 15, 2011 at 14:59 — No Comments
Climate Change, Class Struggle, Just Transition (National Union of Metalworkers, South Africa)
NUMSA CENTRAL COMMITTEE STATEMENT
Wednesday 14 December 2011
...COP 17 & Class Struggle:
Amidst the deepening crisis of climate change and in the context of the COP17 negotiations that were taking place in Durban, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa convened its first International Seminar on Climate Change and Class Struggle on the…
Added by peter waterman on December 14, 2011 at 14:28 — No Comments
Steven Tufts: Green Jobs: Worse than Climate Change Denial? (The Bullet, Canada)
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Added by peter waterman on December 13, 2011 at 16:18 — No Comments
Toronto Mayor versus Public Sector Workers: A War of One or Two Classes?
CUPE National:
Move Your War Room To Toronto Now
Toronto — 11 December 2011.
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Added by peter waterman on December 11, 2011 at 14:30 — No Comments
Alberto Ruiz: The AFL-CIO's Covert Operations (CounterPunch, USA)
Peter sez:
More evidence of the 'labour imperialism' moment of AFLCIO foreign policy. I have suggested, in a previous posting concerning the AFLCIO-Solidarity Centre's activities in South Africa and Peru, that this reveals another…
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Added by peter waterman on December 11, 2011 at 9:30 — No Comments
Hardt and Negri: The Big Ideas of 2012 - Also for Labour? (Adbusters, via Debate List, S. Africa)
Added by peter waterman on December 11, 2011 at 8:57 — No Comments
Omid Rezai: Iranian Report on Labour Start Conference, Istanbul
Peter sez:
A substantial report on the LS Conference, providing both still-generally-lacking information and fresh analysis. Also substantial material on the contribution to the event of Iranian unions and their supporters.
Also noteworthy, the comments on the Israeli presence and protest against this, as also the participation (and criticism of this) of the US state-dependent Solidarity…
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Peter Waterman: 'Globalisation, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms', Now an Ebook!
Peter sez:
Initially published 1998, reprinted in paperback 2002, this is now available as an ebook at $60. The contents, introduction and other details can be seen free online on the Continuum website:…
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